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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1235836" data-attributes="member: 8439">Yes, but at marvel at least, there were a lot of people working on each book. Not just the writer (or writers in some cases) but editors and assistant editors. If someone at the company decided that they actually cared about (time) continuity, it would have been trivial to say that one of the assistant editor jobs was to keep a calendar of the storyline and regularly submit it to the continuity editor. They would keep a cross world calendar and occassionally send memos to writers whose timeline was either lagging or excessively accelerated to do some catchup or downtime. It could be done, but probably wouldn't be because nitpicking time freaks aren't a big enough segment of their audience for it to matter.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />  It would also work better in a comics universe completely divorced from the real world in terms of places, famous people and technological advances.Now backstory is another issue entirely.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />   To solve those kind of problems you basically have to have a writer have "ownership" of his charcters so other writers don't get it into their heads to mess with them, or a writer has to create in essence a character sheet and full background for every character he introduces and other writers have to have access to that if they are going to use the character in their stories... since we know that many characters are created on the fly with no idea of what the backstory would be (when new mutants was being perverted into the new X force, the artist basicly drew a bunch of characters and the writer tried to find places for them and make up personalities...) this wouldn't work without an overiding vision of the universe the different stories took place in.I can certainly see how a new comics company/universe starting from scratch could make continuity work, but it would require a plan from the begining, IMHO.Kahuna burger</blockquote>

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