Lots of stuff on 5G over the past week.
- Jim Lee said at C2E2 that 5G was NOT a line wide reboot that would age up and sideline all of the characters. This comes on the heels of rumors last week that 5G (which absolutely was originally planned by DiDio as a linewide reboot that would age up and sideline the characters based on what we know) was being retooled as a smaller and self contained "event" instead of something impacting all of the books. Complete with artists redrawing and writers rewriting to fit the new direction.
-According to Rich Johnston, younger, less connected DC staffers and editors were telling everyone at C2E2 that everything was going along as planned. More senior editors, creators,and staffers, however, had a completely different story: namely that work has been paused on the whole thing and they've been told it's "up in the air," as to what happens with it. Supposedly creators were told they would be paid for the work they had done so far, but the whole thing was being reevaluated from the ground up and that while it had absolutely been planned to be the new status quo under DiDio's leadership, that is no longer the plan.
So based on what is coming out now, if 5G isn't completely dead, it probably is going to be radically different than what it was originally designed to be.