First thought was, bad idea - I like the connections. Second thought, yet look what they're doing with the 80s JL at the moment. If that isn't a seperate continuity I don't know what is going on. Third thought, but that messing with the story really really winds me up.
The JSA spent an indeterminate amount of time in limbo, have travelled in time a whole ton, and generally interact with DCU-normal time in ways no other group does. Plus comics in the Vertigo line are crucial to the continuity of some members (the current Dr Fate and his lady). And Vertigo was never meant to be in continuity, except for where Sandman kind of was sometimes. Which in my head is because the DCU is a tiny little corner of the Dreaming anyway. But gets very confusing.
I also can never figure if Animal Man got like doubled up to have a Vertigo version and the version who was in the Justice League, or how John Constantine and Swamp Thing interact with the main timeline (because they turn up sometimes, but are they the same they? Can't be, John ages for real). But both of them being kind of magical they could be wandering in and out on the weekends or something. Like when Zatanna was apparently at Constantine's birthday party.
I guess with anything that overlaps Vertigo titles there are already seperate continuities. And they are headache inducing.
Would the different continuities take different parts as background? If you think 4 Robins in 10 years is a problem, which one would you leave out? The Batfamily only make sense when they're all connected. You can leave out the Titans stuff and still understand a lot, but you can't leave out any of the Bats and have the same character left standing, and Tim and Dick are very different if Titans and Young Justice aren't taken into consideration. VERY very. So how to split things up and still keep it all working?
The way current continuity seems to be sliding everything that happened in Extreme Justice and after, or Guy Gardner Warrior, into some kind of never happened black hole, really annoys me, since those were the comics I read when I was going hungry to get them so they mean a lot to me. Everyone will have some kind of obscure canon point that they want to keep.
Splitting universes seems to me like a way to annoy all the people at once.
Just let Batman age. Given all the freaky technologies available in the DCU he can just get himself an exoskeleton and keep going like he always has.
I thought I read somewhere there was a dodge about Hypertime, how there are a bunch of universes sort of close together that bump into and out of each other, hence the possibility of retcon, or the way Power Girl was/wasn't... well, anything really, her continuity being the most fragmented I can think of. Which has some of the benefits of multiple continuities without the drawbacks. Except for the internal logic headaches.
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Second thought, yet look what they're doing with the 80s JL at the moment. If that isn't a seperate continuity I don't know what is going on.
Third thought, but that messing with the story really really winds me up.
The JSA spent an indeterminate amount of time in limbo, have travelled in time a whole ton, and generally interact with DCU-normal time in ways no other group does. Plus comics in the Vertigo line are crucial to the continuity of some members (the current Dr Fate and his lady). And Vertigo was never meant to be in continuity, except for where Sandman kind of was sometimes. Which in my head is because the DCU is a tiny little corner of the Dreaming anyway. But gets very confusing.
I also can never figure if Animal Man got like doubled up to have a Vertigo version and the version who was in the Justice League, or how John Constantine and Swamp Thing interact with the main timeline (because they turn up sometimes, but are they the same they? Can't be, John ages for real). But both of them being kind of magical they could be wandering in and out on the weekends or something. Like when Zatanna was apparently at Constantine's birthday party.
I guess with anything that overlaps Vertigo titles there are already seperate continuities.
And they are headache inducing.
Would the different continuities take different parts as background? If you think 4 Robins in 10 years is a problem, which one would you leave out? The Batfamily only make sense when they're all connected. You can leave out the Titans stuff and still understand a lot, but you can't leave out any of the Bats and have the same character left standing, and Tim and Dick are very different if Titans and Young Justice aren't taken into consideration. VERY very. So how to split things up and still keep it all working?
The way current continuity seems to be sliding everything that happened in Extreme Justice and after, or Guy Gardner Warrior, into some kind of never happened black hole, really annoys me, since those were the comics I read when I was going hungry to get them so they mean a lot to me. Everyone will have some kind of obscure canon point that they want to keep.
Splitting universes seems to me like a way to annoy all the people at once.
Just let Batman age. Given all the freaky technologies available in the DCU he can just get himself an exoskeleton and keep going like he always has.
I thought I read somewhere there was a dodge about Hypertime, how there are a bunch of universes sort of close together that bump into and out of each other, hence the possibility of retcon, or the way Power Girl was/wasn't... well, anything really, her continuity being the most fragmented I can think of. Which has some of the benefits of multiple continuities without the drawbacks. Except for the internal logic headaches.
I have drawn no conclusions. But with many words.