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Post by badwolf on Feb 3, 2023 17:04:19 GMT -5
To me, ignoring is offering ZERO explanation for why something is different. From what I understand, Moore didn't do that. (I have the books but haven't read them yet.) Yep. I don't want to get into spoiler territory, but the previous adventures aren't like they were canceled by Moore's retcon. If instead DC, absurdly, had accepted Haney's version that Bruce's parents had been cremated, this would have automatically invalidated all previous stories in which it had been explicitly said that they had been buried. And if Haney explained that Bruce had his parents exhumed and their remains cremated because he found a notarized paper hidden in an obscure book in the Wayne Manor library that indicated that their wishes were to be cremated, that would have been a retcon.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 3, 2023 18:03:37 GMT -5
Not sure it counts as violating continuity so much as it does not even trying to adhere to continuity, but I'll place my vote for the Silver Surfer Fireside book:
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 3, 2023 18:10:03 GMT -5
I want that book. Come on, powers that be! Reprint!
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Post by zaku on Feb 3, 2023 18:23:36 GMT -5
Not sure it counts as violating continuity so much as it does not even trying to adhere to continuity, but I'll place my vote for the Silver Surfer Fireside book: I consider it a retelling. Like when they do a new movie about Robin Hood or Zorro. They are not "violating continuity" established by the precedent movies, they give a new interpretation of a everlasting myth.
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Post by zaku on Feb 3, 2023 18:27:16 GMT -5
Yep. I don't want to get into spoiler territory, but the previous adventures aren't like they were canceled by Moore's retcon. If instead DC, absurdly, had accepted Haney's version that Bruce's parents had been cremated, this would have automatically invalidated all previous stories in which it had been explicitly said that they had been buried. And if Haney explained that Bruce had his parents exhumed and their remains cremated because he found a notarized paper hidden in an obscure book in the Wayne Manor library that indicated that their wishes were to be cremated, that would have been a retcon. Exactly! And he could also tell that he had left the graves intact (albeit empty) so that his parents, as important personalities of Gotham City, would have a place where others could pay their respects. See Bob? It's not difficult!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 4, 2023 7:06:50 GMT -5
Saw this today. Wonder Woman has a twin brother?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 4, 2023 7:10:43 GMT -5
Saw this today. Wonder Woman has a twin brother? Wonder Twins power, activate!!!
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 4, 2023 8:19:53 GMT -5
Saw this today. Wonder Woman has a twin brother? Wonder Boy. Played baseball with Robert Redford.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 4, 2023 9:01:14 GMT -5
Saw this today. Wonder Woman has a twin brother? Why, oh why, would they futz with her origin? Marston and Peter knew what they were doing, as Perez and Potter fully realized. Somebody grab a crowbar and pry DC management's heads out of their collective ass. Geezus!
Cei-U! I shake my head in bewildered disgust!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 4, 2023 9:06:00 GMT -5
I thought it was a joke.
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Post by zaku on Feb 4, 2023 9:39:48 GMT -5
By the way, since you're the OP, do you consider Alan Moore's Swamp Thing a "continuity violation" or a retcon? Or for you there is no difference between the two concepts?
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 4, 2023 10:09:10 GMT -5
Saw this today. Wonder Woman has a twin brother? A twin? That's only worthy of the kind of eye roll one gives to the idiots who believe they're getting what a presidential candidate promises.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 4, 2023 10:18:30 GMT -5
I think I agree with mrp... it's only a retcon if the next writer picks it up. Writers nearly always explain what they're doing.. unless you're talking about a minor factual mistake like Batman's parents ashes. THat's not really going to be the basis of a story though.
If you going that route, are coloring errors 'ignoring continuity'?
I also think I agree with Slam, it's comics, it's what happens.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 4, 2023 10:20:08 GMT -5
Would Superman 75 (Death of Superman) qualify?
Our boy is not supposed to get himself perished.
But the storyline got little Rags into the comic store.
I think no, but maybe any time you bring someone back to life would count?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 4, 2023 10:22:17 GMT -5
looks like it was New 52, so.. yes
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