I've been thinking about One Year Later lately, especially as one of the few DC titles I buy approaches it's first One Year Later issue (that'd be Robin). There's a couple of nice posts I've seen, one as One Year Later approached and the other looking back after the first few weeks
I can appreciate that DC seems to be at least trying something different. But I can't help feeling it's kind of futile. Ultimately, the writers are going to have to not only advance the current plot, but spend copious amounts of time trying to explain why things are so damn different. Like, why is Captain Boomerang on the Outsiders (both why would he join, and why would they let him join)? Why did Robin change his costume? I just can't see fans letting that stuff slide, at least not for long. I already want to know what the hell Tim was thinking.
Personally, I think it would have been more better if over the next twelve months, the writers of the book had done the stories that get the books to where they are now. We could see Boomerang maybe ask to join, and get rejected, but he tries to help anyway, and the team reconsiders whether he can join. And this would be part of their larger continued mission to hit the villains where they live (or whatever it is the Outsiders do).
I'm sure 52 will maybe answer those questions, but what of the people who can't afford 52? Are they doomed to a life of ignorance? And can 52 devote sufficient time to cover what's happened to each title over that year?
Lest I seem horribly negative, I am considering adding Ion (reliant on the first issue not being poorly written or incomprehensible), Secret Six (contingent on Cassandra Cain joining the book) and that Freedom Fighters book (also based on whether the first issue is poor). What this suggests is that, as marionette's post said, this will be great if you hadn't read the title before. If you had been reading the title, and enjoying it? Too bad.
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If you look at a lot of novels, you'll find they're written in such a way where the reader is coming in about halfway through the story. Something of note has already happened and that will have some bearing on the future.
A good example of this is Identity Crisis. Some major key events of that story happened years ago, and we weren't aware that something else was going on.
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