As I gave my opinion on the DC reboot and day and date digital debate yesterday, and we also heard from some of the industries biggest names via Twitter I thought it'd be a good idea to try to capture the mood of the rest of the comic book community. What we have here is a megablog post collating as many opinions of comic book fans, writers, artists and of course Sidekicks as I could muster up:

Mike Harding AKA @mikeybumchin, Sidekickcast guest-host and contributor to the Sidekick Blog.

Well following a read of the initial article i think that as Rob Williams said, not bothered too much, as long as the stories are good. If they decided to reboot the characters then that would be a different thing entirely. I just hope that they aren't doing an "ulitmate" version which brings all the heroes origins into the now as that would ruin certain titles like Batman, Superman and Justice Society as these are legacy characters that have influenced other heroes. If they do erase all that has gone before then I think they may run the risk of losing a lot of readers, who, have heavily invested both time, and money in some of their larger projects (52, the numerous company wide crossovers). I have always been critical for the excessive amount of continuity driven stories (not just in DC but also in Marvel) and DC's lack of referencing to the past; but this is not the way to deal with that.

The initial title launch of Justice League by Johns and lee should be good as both writer and artist are among some of my favorite individuals in the comic industry.

Regarding the idea of cutting down piracy, I don't think this will be the case as people will still illegally download stuff, due to various factors.

Will be interesting to see how this develops, and I'm not surprised that they are doing this again, as it seems to be something they feel that they can do every so often.

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Michael Legge AKA Lil Fat Mikey, Comic Book fan and sometimes Sidekickcast guest-host

As someone who now only buys trades and when he does it isn't either of the two big boys, I couldn't give a shit ...

Only joking, now for the serious bit - I think it's great for the industry, if it gets people buying comics it can only be good particularly if this $2.99 for a year rumour is true. It won't be a complete reboot either i.e. not right, right back to origins but go back to the characters younger days with different customers to take them in a different direction - I for one will watch with intrigue and hope the writing grabs you by the b***s

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Welcome to a new series of posts that will showcase sketches I have blackmailed convinced artists to do for me (and you...but mostly me) on my ipad whilst we sit around sharing a beer or two. The choice of sketch is the artists own and all have and will be done on the Art Studio for ipad app. Today's sketch is obviously Batman as drawn by Stuart Tipples.

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What we have for you today is a mighty plethora of preview art from Simon Wyatt's 10thology story, Valley of Gwadni. You'll have to wait until 26th February for the Cardiff International Expo 2011 to get the book in your hands but Simon has shared not only some sketches but also an unlettered page from his prehistoric Welsh story. For more information on what the story is all about check out Simon's blog, I for one can't wait to get my teeth into it.

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