quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: So the criteria seems to be a comic book A) whose origin dates back to the 1980's and B) has been published once a week for 17 years...
Batman
Green Lantern
Those are the ones that come the closest to meeting that critirea and neither one (Year One and Emerald Dawn) are being revised.
No, the criteria is: a whole fucking lot of comics have been published and they're all in continuity. Green Lantern is nowhere near Superman. Bat-Man might, I don't know, I don't read it. I've been told it has a lot of "grey" not clearly defined areas, though.
quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: That doesn't make much sense, not on the face of Year One and Emerald Dawn.
What version of Zorro did the Waynes go to see? A 1980's version of the movie or the 1990's Antonio Banderas movie?
As continuity stands now, they saw whatever version came out in the 80's (Death and the Maidens says that the Wayne's died 25 years ago).
See, that Zorro thing can change without altering the overall origin. Changing Krypton like Waid is doing changes not only the origin but over 80% of the stories that came out of MoS!
So, for a third time, I have to ask you, what's OLD about MoS? Are any of the points I brought up old, too 80's or too outdated?
Aaaaaaaaaargh... I'll put as simply as I can. A story starts in the mid 80's. The following week, there's an addition to that story. The following week, there's another addition! And, guess what: the next week... there's yet another addition!!! This goes on for years. Sometimes there are months with only three additions, but other times there are months with six or more. Don't you think that, at some point, somewhere between the first 10 and 15 years, at the rate we're going... things wouldn't be as fresh as they used to be? Wouldn't the writers start running out of ways of stretching the same old story... always keeping in mind what goes before? Wouldn't it start getting... boring?
