quote:Originally posted by Snapman: I think my objection to the continuity-obsessed is when a writer/artist makes a mistake (i.e. a character is drawn incorrectly or placed in a story where he shouldn't exist), and fans want to retcon the entire history of the character to account for the mistake. Those people should just accept a mistake for what it is and move on.
Don't you love irony?
In the Pre Crisis Wally West's eye colors shifted between green and brown.
Mark Waid used that 'mistake' to tell his Dark Flash story and to create Hypertime.
So it's ok for creators to use those mistakes to tell stories but it's wrong for readers to complain about the mistakes in the first place?
Well, the double standard is that it's ok for writers to do anything but when a reader complains he's comparable to a terrorist that rapes women and kills children, at least according to the above rant...
