quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: Who says it has to be?
Do you buy comics to read the characters origin or to read the characters adventures?
The origin is set in the past, both in the real world and in the context of the comic. Why does the origin have to be 'fresh'?
What needs to be 'fresh' is the stories that take place in the now, today, not those that took place 25 years ago from the characters p.o.v.
Origins don't make the stories, they are meant to introduce the characters, not define them for their entire existance.
It has to be fresh IF YOU HAVE TO KEEP IT IN MIND AT ALL TIMES! You've said so yourself, the origin has to be respected and nothing can contradict it yadda yadda yadda. I wish they'd just tell continuity to go fuck itself with a fork, but that's not gonna happen in a long time. In the meantime, respecting continuity is a very valid option... as long of the origin is something fresh. During the first years after Byrne's revamp a lot of things were added and developed to the origin, by Byrne himself and by the first people that followed him. However, nowadays nothing can be added or developed from the Byrne origin, because you gotta keep in mind a shitload of things that limit the writer.
