DiDio: 'No more character reboots'

DC Comics executive editor Dan DiDio has revealed that there will be no rebooting of characters in the wake of Blackest Night.

However, he claimed that the revolving door of death, which sees roles who are supposed to have been dead returning over the course of time, is "a staple of comic book storytelling".

DiDio told Newsarama: "The thing that will be disappearing will be the rebooting of characters, where a character dies and you don't know how to bring him back, so you just bring him back and move on from there.

"That you'll see less of or very little of, or none of, in the DCU moving ahead post-Blackest Night.

"You also won't see as much arbitrary death in the DC Universe, in that, if a character dies in the DCU, there's a very good chance you won't be seeing him at all.

"So therefore, we have to be more judicious in regards to how we make decisions about what happens to certain characters."