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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It's only been recently that comic books have started to pay attention to continuity, with all sorts of retconning going on to try to impose order on chaos.
But in everyone's defense, maintaining continuity over a series of any length is a neat trick. I know various folks who have written tie-in novels for Star Trek, who have stories about Paramount. Like having a novel bounced by Paramount after being accepted and purchased by the book line, because "The Federation wouldn't do that!", and the people responsible thinking for about 5 minutes and rattling off half a dozen produced scripts from The Original Series where the Federation did exactly that...
Simply keeping track of all the little bits that make up continuity is a Herculean task, and it's way too easy to drop balls.
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Dennis
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It's true about the use of retcons in comic books as an attempt to bring order to the chaos. DC Comics alone has done three universe-altering events (Crisis On Infinite Earths, Zero Hour - Crisis In Time, and Infinite Crisis) specifically to clean up all of the continuity problems that have accumulated over its 70-year history. This doesn't include the retcons done within the individual titles.