depends on the yard stick you are measuring with. DC's reboot seemed in no small part an attempt to re-energize fans and grab new ones. I've never been big into DC but started becoming MORE interested as I began to delve into older comics and find the great history DC has with its characters.

So, from that perspective, the new 52 stopped me from continuing to pursue DC and is a failure to me in that sense. Could Snyder have written just as good a Batman without the reboot? Yes. I don't think it needed to happen.

And I don't think sales is a very good indicator at this point. I think we'd need at least a couple years of sales data to determine if the sales bump is more than the excitement from something new.