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Originally posted by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk:
The books Johns has worked on haven't been published once every week for 17 years. Infinity Inc came before Man of Steel but the story told in that comic isn't 1/20 as long as the one started in Man of Steel and that continues to this day.
The concept and characters in the JSA date back to the 1940's...

Flash dates back to the 1960's, as does Hawkman (who dates back to the 40's AND the 60's).

The characters may not have been continuously published every month/week for the last 40 years, but they have been part of the DC U for that long in a number of ways, and Johns manages to use each and every single story to tell his own narratives, without ignoring anything while at the same time respecting that Crisis and projects like Hawkworld, the Last Days of the JSA and Zero Hour happened (hell, ZH launched the current JSA series! Just check the last page of the JSA Returns event, which has Hourman getting a vision of the new JSA moments before he died during ZH).

Unlike Waid and many other whinners, Johns knows what he's talking about and respects what's come before without whinning about it.