Please Reboot your Reboot-You've got some explaining to do

DC, would you mind explaining something?  Actually, would you mind explaining everything?

DC, you started over.  No one can go back and read anything to clear things up.  You have super heroes with tons of powers, Stormwatch is incredibly surreal and abstract at times, Batman owns some sort of crime fighting worldwide company and has a half dozen sidekicks.

These aren’t things a reader can just jump into and understand, let alone immerse themselves in the story. We need to be eased into a universe where the forces of good and evil span multi-verses, Gorillas have their own invisible city, and naked women behead horse and tentacles rise out of the corpses.

In Wonder woman, the first things a reader sees is the aforementioned horse decapitation and tentacles, some blue bird-man-thing starts yelling at someone we have never seen or heard of before in her underwear, and she’s transported to Wonder Woman’s bedroom and all the woman can remember about the blue-bird-man thing was that his eyes were weird.

What was established in those scenes?  What as accomplished, besides showing off behinds of women?

Are these Greek gods or monsters?  If so, which ones?  Why are they naked?  Why are they blue?  What’s their motivation?  The woman was attacked by horse-like monsters before being teleported, were those the beheaded horses and they mutated, or did they come from somewhere else?  Who is this woman?  Why can’t she have pants?  Why does she mention the eyes of the bird-man when there’s so much else weird about him?

If you hadn’t erased the decades of history, a reader could have picked up a previous Wonder Woman comic and answered these questions and answered these questions.  But there’s nothing to fall back on anymore.  You don’t have that advantage anymore and you need to make up for that now.

It’s time to apologize, DC.  You don’t have to apologize for wanting to change. You don’t have to apologize for how you altered your universe.  What you need to apologize for is rushing everything and leaving your readers behind. Make sense and go slower at first. Just explain what’s going on.  All we need is to know what was changed and how this universe works now.  Show us the details of how Batman Inc works with a simple story.  Explain to us who these monsters are.  Tell us why Dick Grayson became Nightwing when he never joined the Titans.

It doesn’t matter if we’re new readers or loyal fans who have remained throughout all the other changes you’ve made.  We deserve better.  We’re all you got.