Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 2354253" data-attributes="member: 4090">No worries. I think that the situation is kind of muddled, anyway. From what I know, there is a strong implication that Brock is dead, but there hasn't ever been a body, and that's generally been the "rule 1" of Marvel deaths- don't believe it unless you see a body. Even then, it might not be a real death.Absolutely. What amazes me is that's one the main things I always loved about Marvel, was its continuity. In DC books, you never quite got that same feeling. Now, though, the situation is almost completely reversed. Marvel has nothing resembling continuity, but DC has an incredible amount of inter-company continuity. The current "Countdown to Infinity Crisis" storyline has its roots in seemingly unrelated books (namely, "Graduation Day") from years ago- but they have always intended that they tie in, and now it's all coming together. They even recently hired Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns in an editorial capacity as continuity experts to help coordinate all their books continuity-wise. And while there is certainly a strong incentive to buy all the related "Countdown" titles- OMAC, Villains United, Rann/Thanagar War, etc.- it is not at all essential to do so, and yet there is no real issue (as far as I've seen) with feeling like you're missing out if you don't. The closest I've come yet are a couple of recent Teen Titans/Outsiders crossovers where I felt I might have been missing something not picking up Outsiders (which I don't like), but that's all. I've almost completely gone from being a Marvel Zombie to a DC one.It's not like Marvel couldn't do it, either. They've got at least one in-house editor already who is a wealth of continuity information (Tom Brevoort), and who could easily do a job like Johns/Morrison (though it would, admittedly, be quite a workload).Even then, you might not be quite sure. There are countless threads on the Comicboards about where exactly the New Thunderbolts storyline fits in with the New Avengers/Post-Avengers Disassembled storyline. NT #1 takes place just after the Avengers disbanded, but features the Purple Man in a recurring villainous role, yet the Purple Man is present in the Raft prison break in New Avengers #1 and 2, and Wolverine features in both books at a time when his "Enemy of the State" arc is going on... Even the various editors and writers aren't quite clear about where things fit together. You get different answers from different people, and then you get a lot of "don't worry about where it fits, just read them" kinds of answers too.</blockquote>

Verification