DC's Relaunch - Bold New Direction or Wasted Opportunity?

Love it, hate it, or couldn't be more indifferent to it, even the most casual comics fan is probably aware that tomorrow, August 31st, officially marks the debut of the so called "DCnU", the line wide reboot of DC's comics properties. For months, the online comics community has been buzzing about it. Some people, um...let's say resistant to change...even bothered to protest about it at San Diego a month or so ago. DC has reported that several titles have garnered orders in excess of 100,000 copies, a number which, in 2011, is likely to give them the big chair at the market share table for the first time in a loooong time. I heard that mainstream news organizations have been roused to write about it; my extensive research (which consisted of typing "NY Times" into Google) confirmed that this is so. So this is a good thing, right? Well, maybe.