10 Reasons Why The New 52 Did Not Work

More than a decade after the New 52 was launched, it has become clear that DC's editorial board more than dropped the ball when it came to the handling of the endeavour. In addition to cancelling intriguing stories and authorizing confusing continuity changes, the overseeing entity mistreated its creatives and held them to its poorly thought-out schemes.

Writers such as Gail Simone, George Perez and Greg Rucka were victims of poor editorial oversight, and their stories were gutted in favour of a slopshod approach that predictably saw diminishing returns as far as creative output and sales went.

Haden Blackman's run on Batwoman was a notable victim of this interference, as the DC head honchos forbade the titular character and her love interest Maggie Sawyer from tying the knot. This decision enraged countless fans and cut short one of the company's most creative tenures at that time.

Just like its cinematic side a few years later, DC struggled with executive oversight that ignored genuine creativity in favour of its own misguided machinations.