On August 31st, DC Comics is going to be enacting a "soft reboot" on their entire line of comic books. While a handful of series will be retaining a modicum of their established continuity and the bigger characters likely won't lose much of their core character, everything else is being wiped clean in the hopes that this lower barrier to entry will attract new readers.

There's been a lot of discussion on whether or not this move is a good thing, but that's not what today's Crosstawk Comics is about. Taking a more positive approach, Gus and I decided to take what we know so far about the 52 new #1s being released across September and pick out our five favorites. So give it a listen as we talk about exciting new books like Swamp Thing, Demon Knights and Stormwatch as well as stand-bys like Batman, Action Comics and Aquaman.

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Thanks for listening, folks! We'll see you next week!