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I truly hope they cram in a cameo for Tim Russ and that this time, he finds shit.

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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like super hero comic fans have a bad rep, but are more easy going about this than one may think. Things kind of drift in and out of continuity all the time. Especially if we’re talking about a big creator. Grant Morrison misremembers Batman’s son’s origin? Okay, that’s the new origin! He wants to bring back the second Robin’s red hair, which was written out twenty years ago? Okay, that’s a thing again.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think the MCU did great translating comics to screen (though I have criticisms), but they can't keep up all these interlocking stories and have perfect continuity while at the same time have every movie be an action block buster where, at a bare minimum, Earth is saved from total destruction.

    So they can do a total reset, but then you have to start completely over, and that pisses people off.

    I never really read superhero comics qua comics, but I got the feeling things are MUCH more fluid, like a new writer takes over and makes some changes, and this is happening across multiple books across time.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I’ve long felt that Fox’s X-Men films capture the feeling of being a long haul comics reader best, because of their sloppy approach to continuity. It’s constantly changing directions, slipping in retcons, reintroducing characters in ways that invalidate their previous appearances. You can tie yourself in knots trying to reconcile X-Men Origins Wolverine with the Deadpool movies the same way I used to try to figure out how Hawkman’s continuity could possibly work. Totally get why a lot of people hate it, but to me that was always part of the fun.

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