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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
A) Continuity in comics is A LOT more convulted than continuity on books or TV series. How many series of books or shows are there that interconnect with each other? How many are suppoused to form a coherent world with each other? How many official Sherlock Holmes books are there? How many official Superman books are there? How many TV shows and movies constitute the world Captain Kirk lives in? How many comics books constitute the world Superman live in?



Did you hear about the three-way crossover between the Smalvlille comic book, the Smallville website and... what was the third one? The TV show or another issue of the comic?

I don't remember the third one, but either way, crossovers between multiple media CAN happen, and it happens more often than you think.

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
b) Given the right circumstances, a story where parts of Holmes' history are ignored could become a good story. I'm not going to give examples because I can't think of any right now, but there a lot of cases in literature when continuity between a series of books isn't respected 100%.



And in 99.99% of those cases those stories don't leave a mark, they come and go.

Remember Young Sherlock Holmes?

Awesome movie (one of my favorites) that didn't go anywhere.

That movie was the equivalent of an out of continuity comic.

No one involved with the movie said "this happened! This is cannon! Ignore the novels, this is the way it happened from now on!!". They just told their fun little movie and that was it, period.

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Crisis. MoS, your bible, came from Crisis..



Yeah, so?

Crisis erased the past. Crisis was the exception to what you quoted because that was its purpose, to clean the barnacles, the chains, and the crap, to make way for the new.

BR doesn't have anything similar to it.

If it did, then MAYBE more people would have accepted it.

Go to the DC boards. Every day I see new posts from people that hate BR...

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Who said anything about that? Think about Byrne.



Byrne had Crisis, as did Perez and Miller.

What does Waid have?

Eddie Berganza, franchise killer.

Not so much of a comparison...

Comics are like a Rorschach test; everyone has a different opinion on what they are and can be...