As you can read here, DC comics is planning to reboot their entire comics universe, using the reboot to improve their digital distribution. This could be considered an awesome idea. Except for one thing.
They've done it before. Three times.
Besides, there are a ton of awesome ongoing stories in the DCU right now. There's the whole Brightest Day thing going on which is a really cool concept worth exploring (SparkNotes version: White Lanterns with the power of life created from various DC heroes). And there's Batman, Inc. (Batmen get franchised out to world cities and trained by Bruce Wayne), not to mention the awesome Dick Grayson as Batman/Damian Wayne as Robin thing.
And there's all of the less-popular, but still really cool things that probably won't get more than a cursory mention, such as Gail Simone's Birds Of Prey, or the Teen Titans.
Also, if you look at a similar reboot/updated universe done by Marvel, the Ultimates universe...you can see that it's less-than-encouraging. It itself got rebooted in ten years during the Ultimatum event. Watch the entire 3 part review. Yeah.
Of course, only time will tell whether this reboot will be a good or bad thing. Perhaps it will result in fresh, exciting stories while still remaining true to the basic character concepts that were originally put forward. But experience, and the fact that negativity is a little more entertaining than positivity, tells me otherwise.
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