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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 2365822" data-attributes="member: 2804"><p>You both make good points. However, I think the problem Marvel had in the mid to late 90's was not continuity. Rather it was too many cross-overs.</p><p></p><p>When I started reading Marvel books a lot in the early 90's, I really enjoyed them because of continuity. Because I knew that what happened in one book would be consistent in other books. I also enjoyed reading a book knowing that what happened in the past actually meant something. It gave everything more resonance.</p><p></p><p>The problem Marvel had was not continuity, it was that to fully understand the storyline of one book, you had to read other books because the story wasn't whole unless you bought all of them. That is what pissed off readers and caused those who couldn't afford every single Marvel title to eventually throw up their hands in disgust.</p><p></p><p>The fix for that problem is simple, keep the stories in their respective titles. Spidey titles follow Spider-man. X-titles follow the X-men. I should never have to buy a Spider-man book to follow an X-men storyline and vice versa. But if something happens in an X-men book, I expect it to be that way when I read another X book.</p><p></p><p>It sounds like Marvel has dumped all continuity and each writer can just do whatever the hell they want. One writer may put Wolverine in Japan fighting the Hand in the latest issue of Wolverine, while the other has him in the Savage Land fighting Magneto in the latest issue of X-men? Ugh, no thanks.</p><p></p><p>That is just too much. I find that more of a turnoff than an invitation for me to jump on board. Why should I invest time or money in a comic series if the next writer that comes along invalidates everything I just read? I'd rather have them maintain continuity, just cut down on the crossovers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 2365822, member: 2804"] You both make good points. However, I think the problem Marvel had in the mid to late 90's was not continuity. Rather it was too many cross-overs. When I started reading Marvel books a lot in the early 90's, I really enjoyed them because of continuity. Because I knew that what happened in one book would be consistent in other books. I also enjoyed reading a book knowing that what happened in the past actually meant something. It gave everything more resonance. The problem Marvel had was not continuity, it was that to fully understand the storyline of one book, you had to read other books because the story wasn't whole unless you bought all of them. That is what pissed off readers and caused those who couldn't afford every single Marvel title to eventually throw up their hands in disgust. The fix for that problem is simple, keep the stories in their respective titles. Spidey titles follow Spider-man. X-titles follow the X-men. I should never have to buy a Spider-man book to follow an X-men storyline and vice versa. But if something happens in an X-men book, I expect it to be that way when I read another X book. It sounds like Marvel has dumped all continuity and each writer can just do whatever the hell they want. One writer may put Wolverine in Japan fighting the Hand in the latest issue of Wolverine, while the other has him in the Savage Land fighting Magneto in the latest issue of X-men? Ugh, no thanks. That is just too much. I find that more of a turnoff than an invitation for me to jump on board. Why should I invest time or money in a comic series if the next writer that comes along invalidates everything I just read? I'd rather have them maintain continuity, just cut down on the crossovers. [/QUOTE]
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