I See Posts Before My Eyes

Anonymous asked: You're planning a reboot for May of next year. I'm on to you guys.

brevoortformspring:

I got about six of these this morning, all based, I presume, on that speculative Newsarama story.

Do you really think we’d be so obvious about what we were doing that Newsarama could figure it out?

Hey, sometimes things are easy to guess.  Anyone else remember the way DC switched horses after everyone guessed Captain Atom was to be the baddie in Armageddon 2001?

If someone guesses a plot point or a big move, it’s easier to spread it around, and that guess becomes a “rumor” every fast, and then on to a “leak”.

For Marvel to do a line-wide reboot would be as bad a move, narratively, as DC’s New 52 was, regardless of how well the sales would increase. You’d have similar issues.  There are some books like Spider-Man that are doing very well, and have no need to change; indeed, a change would likely be met with great consternation.  You have books that have only just started, so restarting them would almost be an insult to the creative team, unless they were told from square one that it would be the case.

Plus, if you call Marvel NOW a reboot (or at least a soft refresh), they’ve already done one very recently.

DC did its initial reboot, Crisis, because they decided the books were too confusing.  And of course, the fix only made things worse.  Right now, the only books I find “confusing” are the Avengers titles themselves.  Too many of them, all happening too close to concurrent to easily explain. Plus the many plots are all cosmic-level, too sweeping to be all but un-mentioned in the other titles.  If there’s any books that need to be sorted out a bit, it’s them.