Were Midighter and Apollo broken up in the Great Relationship Destruction of New 52?

I have no idea.

But this does refer a bit to something I talk about a lot, what the new52 was SUPPOSED to be.

It was never supposed to be, OH WE’RE CHANGING EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS ENDING.

But I feel we kind of muffed the delivery and that’s how people took it.

What it was SUPPOSED to be was more like DCU: YEAR ONE. It was supposed to be (according to what we were told) that almost all the characters were taken back to their earliest days BEFORE the status quo they all eventually developed.

So it’s not that they ‘broke up’ Apollo and Midnighter, the new52 was supposed to be a story like a prequel, before that relationship happened. Same with Clark/Lois, similar even to Batgirl, that it was supposed to be her origin years, before she becomes Oracle.

That message never got out and I think it left readers far more upset than they needed to be. I think if we’d called it DCU: YEAR ONE or DCU: BEGINNINGS, everyone would understand that things weren’t being erased most likely, so much as we were showing the characters before they became gods, as it were, when they could still make mistakes and were still learning.

It wouldn’t have made everyone happy still, obviously, but I think that’s a lot more palatable. 

EDITED TO ADD: I am informed that Midnighter wouldn’t have qualified for this reasoning anyway and that they actually HAVE been shown to break up in the new52. My apologies, I totally missed that!