The New 52 Decline

        In September of 2011 DC comics announce that all issue would be re-numbered to issue 1. Along with this each character was to be given a new origin story, because we all haven’t seen that before. I would hesitate to call the new 52 a "reboot" because certain aspects of the old universe still exist i.e.: Damien Wayne, parts of Brightest Day, some of Blackest night, The Death of Superman. In fact I think DC refusal to reboot the universe proper is the biggest flaw of the new universe. Instead of a more compressed DC universe we got a mish-mash of different stories being in canon and not.

This is a perfect example

            George Pérez is one of the industry’s gems, easily in my top ten-favorite artists. He had a practically frustrating time writing Superman and his scripts undergoing heavy re-writes. He said “Oh, my gosh, you’re deciding all these things and you mean even you don’t know what’s going on in your own books?” Which makes perfect sense to me, DC comics said f**** it one day and attempted to re-launch it titles no matter how much sense or how the creative teams handle it.

        Apon a curiousty I look up the sales figures on comics in January 2010 and Januray 2013.
2010 sales    2013 sales DC has lost it's steam from the intial sales and wound up like this