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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 5, 2020 9:52:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 18:58:22 GMT -5
I love a shared continuity (especially at DC) but some of the standalone Black Label offerings and the Wal-Mart/Digital Firsts have been so good without worries about where it fits with six other books in the month.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 5, 2020 23:51:30 GMT -5
I agree... it's more about stand alone stories than continuity to me. Though of course they have a big event in January and February (Future Tense or something)... which is usually the sort of thing I'm all over, but I might wait for a trade.
Maybe that is going to set it up? we'll see.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 23:56:36 GMT -5
I've heard interviews with Scott Snyder regarding the end of Death Metal and how it's ending can set up multiple possibilities.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2020 9:07:17 GMT -5
Every DC event is just a set-up for the next one.
Don't like the current DC continuity? Just wait a few minutes.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Nov 6, 2020 12:20:57 GMT -5
Shared continuity ceased to have meaning when DC stopped respecting their history 30 years ago, and the every-five-year reconstructing of reality has only made it worse. At this point, they might as well embrace it rather than carry on the pretense that continuity has any meaning for them.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 6, 2020 14:27:15 GMT -5
Shared continuity ceased to have meaning when DC stopped respecting their history 30 years ago, and the every-five-year reconstructing of reality has only made it worse. At this point, they might as well embrace it rather than carry on the pretense that continuity has any meaning for them. I think that's mostly rose colored specs talking, continuity has never really been DC's strong suit. Line wide continuity has always been patchy, only really existing while certain writers or editors held sway and only among certain fiefdoms of books and it's not any worse than that now. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2020 14:55:47 GMT -5
Shared continuity ceased to have meaning when DC stopped respecting their history 30 years ago, and the every-five-year reconstructing of reality has only made it worse. At this point, they might as well embrace it rather than carry on the pretense that continuity has any meaning for them. Even if they adopt a loosey-goosey policy towards continuity, said policy won't last any longer than any of their hard or soft reboots have. I'll stake my life on it. Their fundamental problem (insomuch as my considering DC to be a joke is any kind of problem for them) isn't this year's unappealing continuity or prior years' unappealing continuity (although there's that too), it's their inability to stick with anything. I'm fine with loosey-goosey continuity, or a mix of light continuity and heavy continuity across the line, as long as everyone understands what the deal is, and DC sticks to the deal for more than three months. This will not happen. DC's big events for a while now have mostly been "forget the last event, this next event is now going to explain the true nature of our multiverse". There's no way they're going to stop doing that, and you can't square that with a policy of "don't worry about continuity". You really need a final "this is what our multiverse is", and that's that. ("final" being somewhat relative, but let the last batch of explanations lie fallow for at least a decade). Won't happen. They're addicted to taking mulligans on their multiverse. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2020 23:40:10 GMT -5
That post is pretty much exactly what I was going to post.
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Post by Duragizer on Nov 6, 2020 23:41:04 GMT -5
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Post by mrbrklyn on Jan 16, 2021 10:44:08 GMT -5
Shared continuity ceased to have meaning when DC stopped respecting their history 30 years ago, and the every-five-year reconstructing of reality has only made it worse. At this point, they might as well embrace it rather than carry on the pretense that continuity has any meaning for them. How much continuity can one have before you inevitably destroy the characters. Many of DCs characters are reaching the century mark in age. You can't evolve them like Gasoline Alley, otherwise they are all dead already, and it is just no fun to read. You need some balance, but taking continuity too far is a losing proposition and it always has been. You need enough continuity to tell a story, and then stop. |
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