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ManofTheAtom said:
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It can. Say you wanna write a first meeting between two characters. The whole story is based on the fact that it's the very first meeting ever. It's basic to the plot that the story be the first time they. But, some guy already wrote a first meeting between those characters in a story nobody remembers from 15 years ago, that is in continuity. What do you? Do the first meeting and then brainwash the characters so they can have the second and think it's the first? That's fucking lame.



Oooh, oooh! I know, I know!!

I, a proffesional writer, would go to message boards and whine how much continuity sucks because it doesn't let me hack the work.

Did I get it right??

I would whine that someone else did my idea first and, instead of being trully creative and come up with ANOTHER idea, I would cry and piss and moan that continuity is chocking me?

OR maybe I can just write a story that picks up from that first meeting and runs alongside it, how about that?

It has happened before, where a writer tells a story that runs alongside someone else's.

Look at Karl Kesel's World's Finest maxi series.

This is just one of many examples of a completely original story that was told within the framework of Superman and Batman's Post Crisis continuity.

Of course, one has to be creative to do this. If one just likes to whine because someone else beat them to it, then that's that person's hang up, it's THEIR problem.



This goes for both of you, but for MOTA mostly.
Are you capable of understanding that someone doesn't like continuity? Is that within your capacities? You think it's integral to good comics. Well, big whoop, I don't.
Why should EVERYONE live by it, respect it, and fucking limit themselves by it when only a part of the audience believes in it? Because it's easy to do it? A) It's not. You say so, but hey, guess what, you're not a professional writer. B ) Even if it was... That's no excuse for forcing people to do it. If I was against jumping off fucking bridges and there was a easy way to do it I'd still not do it.
"But it's not limiting..." you're gonna say. Well, for me and for a lot of people it is. I'm not saying this because I hate stories ruled by continuity, I'm saying this honestly and because I fucking wanna be able to pick up a fucking book and get a good fucking story without having anything getting in the way of it, be it giant nazi zombies, the NBA, Gerard Depardiu, or continuity.

Continuity as an option or continuity as an obligation. Is it so hard to see which one is the intollerant one? Which one leaves no space for the other? As long as there are writers willing to write within a strict continuity that's what you'll get. If there's writers that don't IT'S FOR A REASON.

Why are you so afraid of making it an option and not an obligation? If it's so obvious that it's the only way to go and that it's done so much good for comics, then everyone should go for it, don't you think? Unless, of course, they're part of an international continuity hating conspiracy desgined to bring it down from the inside...