Rebooting DC

I think it may be a good idea. I only really started to read comics right around the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, so changing over to the new Post-Crisis world didn't bother me. It's been more than twenty years, maybe starting from a clean slate is needed. It would be simultaneously new and old, with echoes of the previous worlds adding to the interest for older fans, but still new for newer fans. If this happens after Final Crisis, which I think it might, hopefully it will be line wide rather than scattered like after the first crisis.

For example, what if DC had decided to stick with the Jay Garrick Flash instead of switching over to Barry Allen?

Though I have no idea if fans were as rabid then as they are now, picture this scenario:

You are a dyed-in-the-wool Jay Garrick Flash fan. Suddenly, your fave character, whose adventures you followed so lovingly in both his own title & All-Star Comics, has been replaced with this joker in red pajamas.

Horrors! It's an outrage!

And yet, I think the introduction of the Silver Age Flash & Green Lantern were key developments in revitalizing both DC and capes-and-tights comic books.

Now granted, Jay Garrick & Alan Scott were reintroduced, sort of, into the DC continuity -- though they were assigned to a different "Earth." And while these alternate Earths had occasional adventures with each other, the boundaries between each was clear.

And thus The Flash & Green Lantern saw successful reboots.