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Originally posted by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk:
Maybe you didn't understand what I said. I mean this: put every in-continuity Green Lantenr comic published since Emeral Dawn together. Consider what you get one big story. If you compare that big story to the one you get adding every in-continuity Superman comic since MoS, you'll find that Superman's is two or three times as big as GL's, and way more convulted.
The only character that gets close to Superman is Bat-Man. I don't read Bat-Man so I couldn't tell you why it hasn't deranged as much as Superman. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Bat-Man's story has a lot of "free" space, I don't know.
Spider-Man, the X-Men, Daredevil, Captain America and many more.

These are characters whose origins, unlike Superman's, date back to the 1960's. They have been modernized but never changed in a radical way, not how Waid is doing with BR right now.

MoS happened because, unlike Marvel, DC had made a mess of its continuity by having too many of them running around at the same time.

If Spider-Man can exist for over 40 years with only one origin which seldomly gets mentioned and when it is is only in passing and to modernize it slightly, why can't Superman have one that's only 17 years old?

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Right, because of the convulted backstory they themselves had created.
Not so, they just got burned out, it happens.

Stan Lee did 100 issues of Fantastic Four with Kirby. Where they convulted? Yes, and to this day they are praised for what they did there.

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No, MoS itself isn't the problem... it's MoS in addition to everything that's come after it. Maybe you think it's fun to research and read every damn comic so you the whole story is kept in mind when new stuff happens, but how do you think a new reader feels? How do you think a new writer feels? What if the writer's vision just doesn't coincide with what's been established before? What if there's no way of modifying his story to "make it fit" without deleting key elements of his creation? Should he just take his ideas, no matter how good they are, and shove them up his arse?
Depends on the writer's ego.

Geoff Johns manages to make his stories work WITH continuity, other writers who feel they are above it can't handle it so they make it a mission in life to tell people how bad continuity is...

It's all in the ego...