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Post by tingramretro on Aug 16, 2016 12:59:43 GMT -5
But "The Secret Origin of Barry Allen's Bow-tie" and the silly shit that Roy Thomas used to do (Robotman must be related to Robin because they have the same last name...and nobody ever figured out he should maybe live with family) is silly and unnecessary. I used to love the way Roy tied everything together. It's what made me such a fan of his work. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 16, 2016 13:00:48 GMT -5
So...before Stan Lee created a cohesive shared universe in the 1960s, then? If everything Stan created was cohesive, he wouldn't've had to create the no-prize. At least he tried, and he succeeded more often than he failed. I have two No-Prizes... |
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Post by Gene on Aug 16, 2016 13:02:51 GMT -5
I'm happy as long as a book maintains some kind of internal continuity. If I'm reading a big stack of old X-Men books, I couldn't care less if they contradict something from an issue of Avengers that I'll probably never even look at.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 16, 2016 13:19:59 GMT -5
Super-Heroes are a juvenile power fantasy concept
A Super-Hero universe is an overdose of the above
50 years or more of the same character having thousands of stories by dozens and dozens of writers, without ageing appreciably, and expecting continuity is.....I can't even find the words for it
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Post by MDG on Aug 16, 2016 13:45:59 GMT -5
Anyone see this a couple weeks ago? Seemed to be a pretty quick and easy way to take care of things.  Now, let us never speak of this again. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 16, 2016 16:46:25 GMT -5
I'm happy as long as a book maintains some kind of internal continuity. If I'm reading a big stack of old X-Men books, I couldn't care less if they contradict something from an issue of Avengers that I'll probably never even look at. Yeah. That attitude doesn't really work if you read both X-Men and Avengers... |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 16, 2016 16:49:02 GMT -5
Super-Heroes are a juvenile power fantasy concept A Super-Hero universe is an overdose of the above 50 years or more of the same character having thousands of stories by dozens and dozens of writers, without ageing appreciably, and expecting continuity is.....I can't even find the words for it But it's not just about superheroes, is it? The actual question didn't mention superheroes. It's about continuity in general. Why do so many comics fans think everything comes down to superheroes? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 16, 2016 17:13:53 GMT -5
I'm happy as long as a book maintains some kind of internal continuity. If I'm reading a big stack of old X-Men books, I couldn't care less if they contradict something from an issue of Avengers that I'll probably never even look at. Yeah. That attitude doesn't really work if you read both X-Men and Avengers... Over the last few years , the company stopped including footnotes referring to other issues. Maybe that's so no one has to worry about Universe continuity. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 16, 2016 17:27:03 GMT -5
Yeah. That attitude doesn't really work if you read both X-Men and Avengers... Over the last few years , the company stopped including footnotes referring to other issues. Maybe that's so no one has to worry about Universe continuity. No, I think it's because the editors these days are just too damn lazy and ignorant to care about that part of their jobs, for the most part. |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 16, 2016 17:38:15 GMT -5
I like continuity in my comic books -- and in any other type of fiction, to be honest -- for exactly the same reasons as shax laid out. I'm a stickler for it, in fact. If you toss continuity out the window, you loose something important and valuable, while also weakening the fabric of whatever ongoing fiction you happen to be reading/watching/listening to.
Real life has tight continuity and if fiction is supposed to seem real to us as we consume it, then it should have tight continuity too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 17:40:50 GMT -5
Super-Heroes are a juvenile power fantasy concept A Super-Hero universe is an overdose of the above 50 years or more of the same character having thousands of stories by dozens and dozens of writers, without ageing appreciably, and expecting continuity is.....I can't even find the words for it But it's not just about superheroes, is it? The actual question didn't mention superheroes. It's about continuity in general. Why do so many comics fans think everything comes down to superheroes? I'm thinking of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. They had their own continuity. It was part of the appeal of the stories. And TV has embraced telling a season long story instead of "done in ones". Today's TV shows have a tighter continuity than TV shows did when I was a kid. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 16, 2016 17:52:54 GMT -5
I'm happy as long as a book maintains some kind of internal continuity. If I'm reading a big stack of old X-Men books, I couldn't care less if they contradict something from an issue of Avengers that I'll probably never even look at. Yeah. That attitude doesn't really work if you read both X-Men and Avengers... Or you could just not stress over it. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 16, 2016 17:54:36 GMT -5
Super-Heroes are a juvenile power fantasy concept A Super-Hero universe is an overdose of the above 50 years or more of the same character having thousands of stories by dozens and dozens of writers, without ageing appreciably, and expecting continuity is.....I can't even find the words for it But it's not just about superheroes, is it? The actual question didn't mention superheroes. It's about continuity in general. Why do so many comics fans think everything comes down to superheroes? Read the OP's post where he references Thor and The Avengers. Even for non-super heroes, my third sentence is valid |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 17, 2016 1:17:35 GMT -5
I like continuity in my comic books -- and in any other type of fiction, to be honest -- for exactly the same reasons as shax laid out. I'm a stickler for it, in fact. If you toss continuity out the window, you loose something important and valuable, while also weakening the fabric of whatever ongoing fiction you happen to be reading/watching/listening to. Real life has tight continuity and if fiction is supposed to seem real to us as we consume it, then it should have tight continuity too. That's my feeling, too. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 17, 2016 1:20:53 GMT -5
But it's not just about superheroes, is it? The actual question didn't mention superheroes. It's about continuity in general. Why do so many comics fans think everything comes down to superheroes? I'm thinking of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. They had their own continuity. It was part of the appeal of the stories. And TV has embraced telling a season long story instead of "done in ones". Today's TV shows have a tighter continuity than TV shows did when I was a kid. Doctor Who, which has had a couple of hundred writers, has a continuity stretching back 53 years, and it mostly makes sense. The first few years of the show back in the sixties were basically one long ongoing serial, with most adventures leading directly into the next. |
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