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Originally posted by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk:
Heh! I thought you'd get it by now. I have no problem with immediate continuity. It helps the character grow. But, a continuity consistent of everything published each week for the past 17 years? No, thanks.
I'd prefer a "free continuity" where only what you want counts, but that's an impossible dream.
Congratulations on the way you avoided my point. You're getting better at it, I almost didn't notice.
You were very clear, elseworlds are a PROBLEM because they don't affect the character, in other words, they don't affect CONTINUITY, which is what the whinners want to do, change what IS continuity to what they WANT continuity to be.

If it were just a matter of telling stories then they should just do it, but it's not, it's a dick contest (another metaphor)...

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How's that different from what you want? You want the version YOU like to count.
That shows how little you know about what MY version is :)

In MY version of Superman, the character debuts in 1938, grows old (by Kryptonian standards), has children in the 1940's-50's, who in turn have children of their own in the 1970's-90's.

In MY version, you'd be reading about Superman's grandchildren by now, second generation human/Kryptonian hybrids.

If you read my fan fic you'd see that that's exactly what I'm doing... with the ONE exception that the Superman I use in MY version is the one from Man of Steel because I respect and aknowledge that Crisis and MoS happened.

In comics, I find MoS to be the BEST possible versions of the origin of Superman that's ever been done in THIS medium, while in movies the BEST version is the one from the first movie, and on TV the BEST version is the one being done TODAY in Smallville.

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And I wish everyone would do that.

Wait, Waid's story also hasn't an Elseworld's label and it also isn't in continuity (at least not at the moment)... How's that different from what Gaiman did?
What makes it different is Eddie Berganza, he had to fuck it up and say that BR was the new origin based solely on the fact that of all the bs he's edited in the last five this is the one that's sold the most.

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But suppouse there's no space for that. Let's say your idea is what happens the first time Superman laid eyes in Wonder Woman. But that's alredy stablished in another comic. In that comic they show the way he reacted and all. Your idea consists of a completely different reaction after the first glance.
If that were the case then the only thing left to do would be to RE WRITE the original story and incorporate MY plot with the original one and have them run side by side.