DC Comics Relaunch

If you haven't heard yet. Most of your beloved comic book characters are being relaunched in the coming months. Many of the story lines from the past couple of decades are being erased and yet somehow continued. In a word, its a mess.

A couple of examples:

1. Batman has only been working for a few years (3-5 years). Yet, he has trained Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake. Not to mention had a love child with Talia Al'Ghul and has his son as the current Robin. That is a short amount of time to completely train that many sidekicks. Also, his son is really young to be fighting crime.

2. Batman, Inc. still exists and is running at full steam yet, Bruce Wayne is back in the cowl.

3. The Rainbow Coalition that is the various lanterns has occurred. So has the Final Crisis. Although the implications have yet to be told or more than likely ironed out.

4. The Killing Joke occurred and the paralyzed Barbara Gordon has miraculously been healed and is the current Batgirl.

5. The marriage between Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane never happened.

6. Action Comics will reboot Superman in the Golden Age and he will be the first, and what looks like, only superhero (for a short while at least).

I am not sure exactly what all this means for die hard DC fans as the current story lines may or may not continue with the relaunch. From what I have read so far many will end before their conclusion.

Some characters look to be going backwards where others seem to be going into an entirely new direction which may or may not be what fans want. The only good thing that I can think of is that new readers will have a chance to read at the beginning of their favorite hero or heroine. Either way you look at it, it should be an interesting time for comic book fans and DC Comics.