| Posted: 06 February 2016 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | 11
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DC has a bizarre, dysfunctional relationship to continuity. They keep insisting they're done with parallel universes, Elseworlds, and such. They're no good. They've been hurt by them too many times. All of that is over and done with. Good riddance to them! Then, in a sudden rush, they fly back to them, falling all over themselves to do another 52 or Convergence, tumbling down the rabbit hole again and filling the stands with nothing but alternate continuities and parallel versions of the characters.
Then, next morning, they look back and declare that was it. The last time. Never again. They're starting over, with a new Superman, a new Batman, a new Wonder Woman. It's a new day. No more of this bringing back the past or seeing other counterparts on the side. Really. They mean it. It's over.
Until it isn't again...
I suspect this new Movie/TV-verse they're concocting (because nothing on the stands can beat the proven sales power of Superboy the Comic Book, The Flash TV Special, and Smallville Season Eleven) will very soon yield "nostalgia" books, with crewcut Barry Allen and Green Arrow alongside Speedy in the Arrowcar. Valentines to the fans, you understand.
It's a little bizarre that Generations got caught up in all this. If I recall correctly, DC editorial felt in necessary to tag the project with the Elseworlds logo. Then, when they swept away all the Elseworlds, there was no possible way to do more Generations because, well, Generations was an Elseworld. It doesn't have to be, does it? It could come back without the logo, right? No, it had the logo, so it's an Elseworld. See?
No, not really... Especially when the latest Morrison "Map of the Universe" goes out of its way to include all of the Elseworld variant characters, including those from Generations, on their own... where have I heard this before?.. parallel Earths! That was the whole Multiversity thing that ran through DC's line of books throughout 2014 and 2015. The event that was supposed to finally tie everything together, complete with guidebooks, so that going forward, everyone knew where everyone stood, where everyone was based, and what the rules were going forward.
I assume that's all out the window now, right?
In answer to this thread's question, the only books I have by JB that I would never want to part with were written either by JB himself, Stern, or Claremont. While Cap 250 and 255 loom large in my psyche, I could never let go of the Savage Land saga and the Mesmero & Magneto stories leading up it, so I'll have to vote Claremont.
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