On Aug 18, 4:05 am, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 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?
No, where everything applies unless it explicitly cannot. Like
everything in the mainstream DCU, really.
> You can't see the problem?
Nope, sorry. In so far as it is a problem, it doesn't seem any greater
or lesser than it is for books that take place entirely with the
mainstream DC line. Which is to say that there are certainly
contradictions and oversights, but nothing worth getting worked up
over.
> Separating it from a line that does observe continuity is the reason.
> Duh.
Except that the Vertigo books *do* observe continuity (the ones
originating from the DCU, at least, not the later creator-owned
books). It's a loose continuity, certainly, but on the odd occasions
when Tim Hunter ran into John Constantine or Death of the Endless,
it's a given that there is some form of continuity between books in
the line. It's not functionally any different from the sort of
continuity observed by the DCU prior to the 1980s or thereabouts: you
didn't expect to see Superman in every issue of _Detective Comics_,
but you knew that Superman and Batman coexisted in the same universe.
There's only a problem here if someone's arguing than _Hellblazer_
needs to constantly refer to whatever happened in this week's
_Countdown_. And since it's never done that, and there's never been a
expectation that it needs to do that, it doesn't strike me as worth
talking about.
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