Good grief, those revamps are horrid. It's the same crap, different year: a company thinks that they need to update some iconic characters to appeal to younger generations. It generates a lot of initial attention but ultimately fails and reverts to the tried and true version. Did "Poochie" from The Simpsons teach us nothing?
My 7-year-old daughter collects Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, which is approaching its 70th issue, and I can vouch that it's very entertaining. I regularly read DC's Scooby-Doo Team-Up... an extremely witty and creative title written by Sholly Fisch - Mystery Inc. teams up not only with H-B characters, but with Bronze-Agey versions of DC heroes, and not just the more popular ones.
So in my opinion (and my daughter's), there's no need for DC to revamp these characters, as they are doing just fine with the classic versions.
But the best part of the article is this Darwyn Cooke promo image for Future Quest. This will be a must-read, and of course, it's the classic H-B heroes.
