>>149490181 (OP)
Jim Shooter, being based as always, summed up the problem correctly. Beyond this stuff of
>>149490319 >>149490365 where New 52 was a half-assed, the books were trying to be these new entry points to DC comics... where much of the advertising and stories relied on you knowing these characters' history with one of the big pulls being "Oh, what has happened to X, what are they doing/where are they are?". So you had a reboot that wasn't really a reboot, that wanted to attract new fans by relying on decades of history etc.
It was essentially the problem that DC had after COIE on an even larger scale not helped by the fact that they were trying to integrate yet another two universes into everything.
>>149493409
While this anon is absolutely idiotic, they actually are unintentionally also hitting on yet another factor which has fucked DC since Didio has taken over. Although there were obvious problems, one of the reasons had a boom in the 80s is because of how wide their universe was. You had shit like the Legion, the JLI, Swamp Thing, Vigilante, Omega Men, the Titans etc. This huge sprawling universe where although Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman were important, the universe didn't revolve around them.
Under Didio's reign as editor, he was so so concerned with making everything interconnected and edgy, making the entire thing feel a lot smaller.
New 52 is probably the epitome of that, where unlike post COIE which for better or worse, tried to make DC more Marvel-like but you still had a variety of tones, genres and stories to choose from, New 52 was Didio basically trying to make everything, even the so-called experimental books staring C-Listers, fit his sensibilities.
