Reboots are good for the soul, according to multiple accounting departments within the comics industry. After all, it’s like a spring cleaning for all the nasty stuff like “canon” and, “oh god, remember when the Internet got into a tizzy about Donald Glover being Spider-Man? How can we bank on that a second time?”
Reboots and character pushes nowadays seem subject to larger media plans: be they video games, movies or video games for movies. Just take a look at Nova and Dr. Strange being slated for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3; it’s no surprise those characters are going to be big players for Marvel in 2012.
We’ve assembled a list of characters we think could really shine in today’s market, if only they had the proper hands to make them a force to be reckoned with. We're willing to provide that hand some guidance with our list of comic book characters in need of a reboot.