Comments on: I WILL TELL YOU #39: Continuity Must Die – Part 3

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:51:40 +0000

From a marketing standpoint, it might, IF it’s done solely as a gimmick and the well is dipped into one too many times.

But creatively, it would be ridiculous to stay with something that’s not working. The creative teams across the board are stronger than what we’ve seen, and this reboot has people talking a lot more than they did about any of the last several DC “events”.

By: Dave Marchand

Dave Marchand — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:12:44 +0000

Well, Alan Moore let everyone know that they’re ALL imaginary….in the last round of “last Superman stories” before Superman got “Byrne-d”…but, doesn’t the constant restarting of your universe make for more, not less, trouble?

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:12:07 +0000

Flashpoint has indeed been a nice surprise, and I mean the entirety of the event, not the main series. This was a very rare occasion where many of the tie-in books outshine the main one.

I would have loved it if DC had slapped the old “Elseworlds” label on some of these books just to screw with the minds of continuity geeks out there. Then, they would be IMAGINARY stories that don’t count! So, would that make them REAL? Or really imaginary? The mind boggles!

By: C. Scott Lovejoy

C. Scott Lovejoy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:27:37 +0000

We were hearing this a lot about the Flashpoint books, people not wanting to pick them up because they “don’t count,” a direct reference to something not bound by continuity rules. Turns out, quite a few of them are good stories on their own merit and the whole event is doing fairly well in the face of not counting!