[#item_full_content] [[{“value”:”It’s hard to believe 10 years have already passed since DC Comics launched its Rebirth initiative in 2016. Originally sold as a course correction on the wildly unpopular New 52 reboot that launched in 2011, DC Universe Rebirth did a lot to breathe new life into the main DC canon. Characters were restored to their more iconic status quo, other characters that were erased with The New 52 were brought back with their original histories intact, and the tone improved by a complete 360.
Between 2016 and 2020, the main DC canon enjoyed a renaissance of bold new stories that honoured the past but still moved the DC brand forward. By all accounts and purposes, DC Universe Rebirth as an initiative was a success. But was it a long-term success? This is where I feel the mileage will vary across the DC fandom. But the thing that stands out to me personally is that post-Rebirth, the main DC Universe has lacked an actual throughline and continued course-correcting for a full decade.
After 2020’s Dark Nights: Death Metal reconfigured DC canon, what succeeded was yearly new initiatives that introduced more canon revisions on an inconsistent basis. This lasted until 2025’s New History of the DC Universe confirmed that the main DC canon is now a Frankenstein monster of every past continuity that ever existed, haphazardly stitched together in ways that wildly contradict DC’s own published comics. This was not helped by the introduction of new unnecessary retcons.
The decision to restore and revise bits and pieces of DC’s pre-Crisis Multiverse, post-Crisis universe, New 52 universe, and all the Crisis events that significantly altered DC continuity into a single timeline is where I feel DC lost sight of the goals of Rebirth, ultimately hurting the promise of Rebirth.”}]] 
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