DC's biggest crime is having no idea how to write Superman. He may never be DC's biggest seller -- that's probably always going to be Batman -- but he ought to be not just the most visible character, but the one who ties things together. He ought to set the tone and the theme of optimism that should be at the heart of the DC Universe. And it wouldn't break my heart if they started up "DC Comics Presents" again, with Superman teaming up with a different character every month.

Now that crime aside, I do like a lot of the choices DC has made and risks they've taken. Hal Jordan has never been written better than he is now, nor has Kyle, and the current showings for Dick Grayson and Selina Kyle are also really really strong. There are a lot of comics I couldn't imagine NOT buying on a monthly basis. But I think what you're saying, if I follow you properly, is that all the characters are off-model and the DC Universe as such is in an unrecognizable state ... and yeah, I can appreciate that. I miss the legacy characters; I miss the possibility of Jay, Barry, and Wally all fighting together, or going to a baseball game together (because with Barry tagging along it's either that or a bow tie convention). Slavish fixation on the status quo is a bad thing, but we ought to at least be able to see glimmers of it once in a while.

You mentioned a black Captain America; I have to say, I'm disappointed with Marvel over that, because that feels much more like pandering to movie fans than actually trying to make a positive statement. Marvel already has two perfect fits for a black Captain America -- Patriot and Battlestar -- so why give the job to the Falcon? Because he was in the movies, not because it makes any sort of internal sense.

There is also the side issue that Steve Rogers is eventually going to come back into the role, and that's going to be a negative message. What I wish Marvel had done was come up with Team Rebirth (for lack of a better name), where Steve Rogers is preparing the next generation of Captains America. You've already got Patriot and Miss America Chavez as thematic fits with some experience; flesh out the team as you see fit. Maybe put Battlestar as the mission commander because he knows the job and he's got the skills.
 

I'd love to see DCP return again. They did in the New 52's infancy but they launched it as an anthology in a universe that hadn't been established in any way, shape or form.

The DCU as I knew it has become a place that only lives in back issues and trade paperbacks and I'll be ok with that.