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ManofTheAtom said:
You mean like a few months ago when Gibbons and Weeks told an out of continuity Captain America story in the main book that MAY or may NOT have happened?



If that issue doesn't make you have a heart attack because of the line "may or may not have happened" in the solictiation or whatever, then what's the problem here??? I'm arguing that writers should be free to write stories like that within main titles if they want without any major explanations that get in the way of storytelling, and I don't think the line "may or may not have happened" is a major explanation, in fact, it's pretty reasonable to prevent heads of people like you from blowing up.
I'm all for adding the line "may or may not have happened" whenever a writer feels like skipping continuity.

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Byrne's about to do it to Acurdi's Doom Patrol...



I'm so fucking happy he's free to do it. Even if the Acurdi Doom Patrol rocked (i liked the little I saw of it). It's still there, in the sense that people can still read it and enjoy it, and in the sense that writers can still go and use it for basis of their interpretation and ignore Byrne because of selective continuity.

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Just like the above reply hangs on the execution, this one hangs on the NEED for ignoring the stories.

Superman doesn't need to have his current continuity ignored.



Ah, so books can only get rebooted if you think they need to be ignored. I guess the difference between you and Pariah is that Pariah defends continuity on principle, going with the good and the bad, and you defend it out of ego, only using the argument when it defends your interests.

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The Doom Patrol doesn't have that much of a problem because their connection to the Post Crisis DC U has been extremely thin (in some places more than in others).



It's still in continuity. They fought in Invasion. How can you defend MoS saying it shouldn't be rebooted because it's in continuity and it would need an in continuity justification to be rebooted (you said yourself you would be all up for Birthright if there was a Crisis like event to back it up), and then suddenly say such things don't matter with the Doom Patrol because you happen to think it needs the reboot? You just never thought you'd bump into someone that actually remembers the shit you say, didn't you?

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Yes, but you only think you're right while I know I'm right



I hope that means it's a joke, because if you really think so then, by definition, you're stupid.

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Just like the first reply was about execution and the second one was about need, this one is about conviction



If you KNOW without a doubt you're right about everything you say here, then it's not conviction, it's blind fanatism. And that's never good.