Trivia / New 52

• Creator Backlash: Dan Didio admitted going total Continuity Reboot was a mistake going into the DC Rebirth, stating that there was no real unified voice to direct the characters after doing away with the history.
• Disowned Adaptation:
  • Bruce Timm more or less implied in an interview for Justice League: Gods and Monsters that he isn't a fan of Harley Quinn's New 52 redesign and those derived from it, hence Harley's death in the tie-in web miniseries Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles being a Take That! to New 52!Harley..
  • Frank Miller reportedly hated the brief inclusion of Carrie Kelley in the mainline continuity, to the point that he made DC ban her from the comics outside of his work, resulting in her quick disappearance from the mainline continuity and further plans for her getting scrapped after only appearing in three issues of Batman and Red Robin, with her only reappearance being a minor cameo in Tom King's run.
• Troubled Production:
  • Most of the creators were only given notice 3-4 months in advance prior to Flashpoint, resulting in many of the stories that were being told at the time either getting rushed endings or being outright Cut Short, on top of creators not being given time to get ready for being assigned to new work.
  • DC opted to jump straight into many event comics rather than establish a status quo, meaning that readers would basically be thrust right into event comics starring versions of characters they barely knew - the first event, The Culling was launched less than a year after the New 52 began, and by the time the New 52 ended, there had been a total of 32 events over the course of 5 years^note during the post-Crisis and pre-New 52 period, there were 54 events, but that period was roughly 26 years.
  • There was no official word on what storylines were and were not in continuity, meaning that it was never clear if X event had happened - this was due to DC taking a stance on previous canon that basically boiled down to "it happened in some form until new material contradicts it". Which made it hard not just for readers who were getting into the DCU because of the reboot (making it hard for them to determine what events they should go back and read), but also for the writers as well, since they'd have to make sure no other writers were planning on pushing X storyline into Canon Discontinuity... which, due to the lack of a unified voice, often didn't happen. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that several storylines followed up on pre-Flashpoint storylines, not to mention that in the case of Batman, the fact that his books were selling well before the reboot meant that they didn't reboot him, and it wasn't so much a reboot for him as it was merely giving him a new set of storylines, since not only was he still established to be active before the start, but the relatively new Damian Wayne^note a relatively new character that was unknown to anyone who hadn't read Batman (Grant Morrison) was his active Robin, as opposed to Dick Grayson^note who most people with only a passing familiarity with Batman would know or Tim Drake^note who people who grew up watching Batman: The Animated Series would be familiar with, on top of almost all of his previous Robins^note the one exception being Stephanie Brown, who the executives reportedly despise being in continuity.
  • Because of communication issues, it was hard for creators to set things straight with others - George Perez, for example, was unable to find out if Superman's parents were still alive from Grant Morrison.
  • Rob Liefeld, notorious for Schedule Slip, was hired for 3 books, later quitting quite loudly.
  • Gail Simone was fired in an email for no reason, despite the book she was working on selling well and receiving good reviews, then promptly hired back over an email.
  • Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov was hired to write Green Lantern Corps and Red Lanterns. Editorial told him to kill off John Stewart, one of the best-known Lanterns thanks to the Justice League cartoon and one of DC's best-known black heroes. Fialkov refused and quit.
  • Writer Andy Diggle quit Action Comics for "professional reasons" before his first issue even came out.

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