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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 2383725" data-attributes="member: 509">The thing is that until the 80s DC didn't really dwell much on continuity. It's not that it didn't have any, just that it wasn't a big deal. Most stories ended back in the old statusquo, anyway. Plus, DC wasn't one world it was a bunch of different 'Alternate Earths' cobbled together, each with it's own continuity.For Marvel, continuity was, like, their thing. It wasn't perfect, but they kept a pretty good leash on it.Then in late 70s/early 80s following the success of more Marvel-like DC titles and signifiantly dwindling sales in other departments, DC went the Marvel route policy-wise, resulting in Crisis of Infinite Earths, where they attempted to sweep the state clean. Gone were Alternate Earths and continuity mis-match... in theory. If they'd just rebooted the whole thing and started from scratch, it probably would've, but fearing alienating their fans and mess with their most successful titles (like Teen Titans and Batman) they only rebooted a chosen, badly selling but important, few (like Superman and Wonder Woman). This resulted in a continuity mess. Failed attempt to try to make order from chaos. They made several attempts to fix the continuity, but it only complicated things as not all the writers followed the new contiuity and kept re-introducing old ideas.Now these writers and editors are running DC and we're actually getting functional continuity. The 'how'? Streamlining. They're basically rebooting the DC as we speak, but not by changing past continuity, but by ignoring it. They've gone back to the archetypes of old DC. They're slowly introducing a new status quo. The old stuff still happened, it's just not really important. Many believe that the whole Infinite Crisis thing that's running through the DCU titles now is the final step to this new status quo.A good example is the Superman titles. Last year they wrapped up all the big plot points of the last ten years. Then they did a Superman origin retelling. Then we have a new Superman story: One that did not directly reference the old continuity, but did not refute it, either.</blockquote>

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