As someone whose first book was a comic book, I found the reboot a little insulting to the dedicated fans. This being said, I enjoy a few of the books from this, and realize they wouldn't have existed otherwise. I lament the lost cannon, and wish that ther

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You know, I saw this beautiful painting in a restaurant a couple days ago, of a Mexican villa, painted in a style that was vastly non-representative. It was a beautiful effect, but for example, nothing in the building had a right angle and the perspective was deliberately distorted. Almost a bit of surrealism.

One problem with going over a topic TOO much is that you can end up explaining something that's meant to be felt, to be experienced. If that artist had gone on a message board to talk about the painting long enough, eventually, someone would ask why the roof has an unnatural curve (not meaning this facetiously, someone could ask what the effect was that was intended, in the name of scholarship, for example).

And at some point, you have to say, "That painting is what I intended it to be," because no amount of talking back and forth is really that satisfying for either party. If the relaunch isn't working for you, what can I say to change that? More importantly, what RIGHT to have to try to change your mind with anything but the books themselves?

Some people hate the relaunch. I don't feel it's my job or my privilege to try to argue them out of it. If they don't like it, that's their honest opinion. I disagree that it's an insult…we publish a LOT of books specifically that have been requested over and over by dedicated fans. Over and over, many of those books sink like a stone even with the best possible creative teams and all the positive energy we can summon.

Arguing why someone should like something seems as odd to me as arguing why someone should hate something.

So I don't have a response that's hugely helpful, I am sorry to say. I am sad you didn't find more books to love. Hopefully it's not over and there's still stuff coming you will enjoy more.

But your opinion is valid, I don't really feel it's my place to disagree with it.

Regarding the writers, again, you can't take these things as a slight or that the writers are out of favor. Some, like James Robinson and Nicola Scott, had projects that were coming but weren't ready yet. Same with characters…Huntress wasn't in the Birds because they wanted to give her a kickass solo mini. So some writers are still on the way.

The other thing was, because it was absolutely vital to make sure that retailers got these books on time (not just for credibility, but also things like our online partners and bookstore sales), DC needed writers who could absolutely deliver in a certain time frame, without fail. Some great writers, like Marjorie M. Liu, were already booked with other work and regretfully, could not make those time frames.

So there were a lot of reasons why some writers didn't get a launch book. It REALLY doesn't mean they're not important. James' book is going to be huge, a real keystone for the whole effort.

There may be some writers who were overlooked, I don't know.

Hope that all makes some sense!