The last eighteen months have seen quite a bit of rebooting, renumbering and relaunching of comics properties, and as with anything, not all relaunches are created equal.So, with the end of 2012 around the corner and a handful of major relaunches either already fully rolled out or at least far enough along that we can get a pretty coherent look at what they were shooting for, let’s take a look at the reboots we’ve loved.DC Comics – The New 52The reboot to end all reboots, DC Comics did what no publisher has done since…well, since DC did it with Crisis on Infinite Earths. The history of the entire DC Universe was reset and truncated, giving decades-old heroes, many with close to a century of backstory, a five-year history and not a lot of familiar events to cling to even in that.The good? It allowed DC to rebrand a number of their floundering or effectively dead properties, making Animal Man more adult, Swamp Thing more audience-friendly and giving Dial H for Hero a facelift.The bad? Scared of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, DC failed to reboot their most popular properties, leading to some Green Lantern and Batman stories which, to put it bluntly, don’t make a lot of sense. And they’re not the only ones, just the most obvious. A number of the changes made to “modernize” characters, especially costume changes for iconic DC heroes, weren’t that well-received either.
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