On Aug 17, 11:17 am, Sean Daugherty <seancd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Aug 16, 6:08 pm, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > This "separate but linked" thing is the worst of both worlds.
>
> I've gotta disagree. The "worst of both worlds" is arbitrarily
> dividing the two lines so that it's never clear what particular story
> is applicable to a given universe.
Exactly. Glad we agree.
> I honestly don't see the problem with the current situation, where the
> Vertigo "universe" remains "a long bus ride" from the the more
> mainstream DCU.
Where some stuff counts and some doesn't?
You can't see the problem?
> On the even rarer occasion when a writer wants to go into really
> uncharted territory, so be it. The last _Books of Magic_ series was
> explicitly set in an alternate reality, IIRC, allowing it to use
> characters like John Constantine and Zatanna without concern to how it
> impacted those characters anywhere else. When Peter Milligan destroyed
> San Francisco in _Shade_, it effectively divorced that series not only
> from the main DCU, but also the rest of "Earth-V." All this obsession
> over continuity in a line that doesn't really observe much continuity
> in the first place strikes me as a silly.
Separating it from a line that does observe continuity is the reason.
Duh.
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