I've been thinking a lot about this Rebirth thing lately and I have to say I'm not seeing that much come out of it.
I mean, we get Pre-Crisis Supes/Lois and Clark back and while i love them, they're still just one part of a larger DCU
So is Nightwing. Of course my main complaint is that we're stuck with NuWally still.....but not for the reasons most
would associate a Wally fan to complain

The fact is that with Titans hunt and the Rebirth Titans we get the return of the classic Titans Members Dick,
Donna, Roy, Garth and...Lilith?!? In addition Green/Blue/White/Omega lantern Kyle Rayner who is also (age-wise)
allowed to retain his adulthood. Meanwhile, Wally West is delayed in being allowed to join the DCNU. When he is,
he's racially shifted,* de-aged and demoted back to being Kid Flash (Teen Sidekick). See my point? All of Wally's
original peers and even his newer one (Kyle) are now much older than he is and for all intents, none of them are
too drastically different from what they were Pre-Flashpoint. (Actually Garth (Aqualed/Tempest) came out much
better as he had died prior to Flashpoint)

*A result of DC trying to Over-correct the lack of diversity in the silver age for the sake of modern-day political
correctness. Of Course it's not just the PC/Over-correction that caused Wally's racial shift. By the Time Wally
was being prepped for a return to the DCU, the TV series was in development and the Wests were cast as they
were. So we got an early instance of WB Oversight where the Comics characters have to now Conform to their
Live action Media couterparts. Why not just let DC do what it always used to? Have seperate Comic book
adaptations of the Films and/or TV specials and let the mainstream comics have their traditional looks be un-
tainted by said media.

In addition. We had a really Great Kid Flash in the Form of Bart Allen Pre-Flashpoint and he's wiped from the
Multiverse entirely, replaced byan Alien Criminal from the future who almost ruins any hope that we'll ever see
Bart Allen again (unless netflix brings back Young Justice)

Then there's Lobo. I was a huge fan of the Original Man Man back in the 90's when my college roommate
introduced me to him. I collected all the miniseries, specials and the ongoing. all of his appearances in the
various animated series that followed kept him in pretty much that same form.
Then we got the new 52 version.....A pretty Boy in leather. (fit for the CW maybe but in no way is he the bad-
@$$ that i enjoyed through the 90s. I hope if rebirth does nothing else, we'll at least get the Original Main
Man Back as he was and kick this pretender to the curb.

Now granted, if I had my way i'd just have the whole Pre-Flashpoint DCU returned as a separate Earth within the
Multiverse and now show what's been going on there.

Well, no. That's never been true. Jimmy Olsen was created for the Superman radio show and given his own comic because of the character's TV popularity. Wonder Woman was set during WW II for a while because of the TV show. Harley Quinn and blue? electric? girl? I forget her name? were introduced to DC continuity after they appeared on the tv shows? (I am pretty clueless about the cartoons.) The entire industry changed tones due to the campy Batman show of the '60s. (Well, the entire industry except for the Batman comics, which mostly ignored it!) John Byrne's 1968 Superman reboot was inspired by both the '50s TV show and Superman: The Movie.

I do feel for ya; You have fuzzy, nostalgic memories of one specifc time period and you would like DC to try and replicate that time period. And, as anyone who has read my posts on this board will tell you, I am ALL FOR complaining about DC Comics right now.

But as a guy who has been reading comics since the PreCambrian (1982!) and actually prefers mainstream comics even older than that... this is DC doing what it always does. Rebooting it's characters and copying the media.

Here's one that I came across when I was getting caught up on Detective Comics when I got back into collecting in 2011 after a seven-year absence. It's called Pipeline, it was a 12-part backup feature in Detective Comics #854 to #865.

Our heroine is the Question, but it's not Victor Sage. Before succumbing to cancer, Vic recruited and trained a successor, former GCPD detective Renee Montoya. When Pipeline opens, she's been around long enough to make a few guest appearances and now she's moved up to her own backup series! She's looking for a missing girl, and she finds out that this case is about a lot more than one missing person.

I love this series! If somebody had told me about it before I came across it accidentally, I think I would have been reluctant to read it. Montoya had gone through A LOT of changes since the last time I saw her in the Batman books back in 2004. (I used to think she looked like Penelope Cruz. The new Montoya looked like Maria de Medeiros.)

(Not that there's anything wrong with
looking like Maria de Medeiros!)

It's stylish and exciting and often suspenseful. The Huntress shows up! The scene with Barbara Gordon is very amusing. And then you get to the end and ...

I won't spoil it. It's available in TPB and it's worth the effort to track it down. See if the library has it!

I don't think I've ever heard anybody talk about this series. I find that surprising because to me, it's the best storyline I came across from that 2004 to 2011 period when I wasn't reading comics. (Except maybe for All-Star Superman. And maybe the first ten issues (or so) of the 2009 Power Girl series.)

Was the creative team Rucka with Cully Hammer?

Either way, I'll check this out. Montoya as the Question, under the guidance of Rucka, was one of the best things I've loved about a Dido-led DCU. If you read 52, you'll learn how Vic came to train her to take over the guise. It's one of the best sub-plots of the entire series (along with Rucka's development of Kathy Kane).

Her follow-up appearances (and later a mini of her own) were good and I was enjoying the directions that Rucka was taking her towards. But then Flashpoint happened and it ALL went to H-E-double hockey sticks.

Livewire.  Right.  (Seems like a pretty good character, actually.  I am sorry I forgot your name, Livewire.)

And that is true.  Wally really should have been mothballed in 1989.  I wonder why they didn't?  Was the Wally West Flash a huge hit?  I know that Barry got cancelled after 34,000 years of Trial of the Flash stories, but that was 3 whole years in the past!  Time to move on!  

And I did like the post-Crisis Flash series for, like, the first 180 issues or so (which is rare) but it did completely recharacterize Wally West with no explanation, and that always bothered me.  The Teen Titans were still in continuity, right?  So why is Wally being such a jerk all of a sudden!  

It's rare that I get too uptight about continuity stuff, but that always bugged me.  

He was the first character in DC's '50s superhero revival, unless you count the Martian Manhunter? He's the most historically important of the three characters.

Still, he wasn't the Flash (in comic fans brains at least) for a good two decades.

To be fair, you take away everything different from anyone and they become generic.
At least Wally seemed like a real person, Barry was always just another carbon copy middle aged white dude in longjohns, like Hal, Ray, and Oliver(pre-beard). He book was infinitely superior to Barry's (old or Nu52).