DC just brought the destruction of Bludhaven back into continuity.
Between Infinite Crisis, Battle for Bludhaven, and Final Crisis, they bombed it, nuked it, and god-fricked the ashes. Resetting it in the New 52/Rebirth is one thing, but now they're saying all that still happened? How does this even make sense?
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Realistically if some super villain nuked a city it would be the end of the whole Superhero/Super villain dynamic. It would be the USA vs any wacko with a mask.
Well, the nuking of Bludhaven did lead into the rebooted Freedom Fighters and the US Government's more aggressive stance on metahumans after Infinite Crisis.
Yeah, all it takes is looking at how fast the Patriot Act was passed after 9/11, to realize that the loss of a whole city would be the end of Super people. Even if by some miracle the government doesn’t try to register/ outlaw all of them, at the very least I could imagine zero tolerance legislation that anyone considered a super criminal ,gets fast tracked to the electric chair or a lobotomy. There’s that great scene in Batman Year 100 that talks about how as soon as the totalitarian government took over, they marched a bunch of soldiers into Arkham and just machine gunned every one of the criminals in their cells. It’d pretty much be that, but everywhere.
Only problem with that is, the villains would just start organizing. Gathering around the biggest , meanest motherfricker they can hide behind. And there are baddies in DC that can take the entire military industrial complex and bend it over a desk.
It's kind of why the Heroes need to head off this bullshit from the outset by saving the day. Otherwise the whole thing spirals into this unrecognizable horror show of Supers commiting war crimes against each other.
>Otherwise the whole thing spirals into this unrecognizable horror show of Supers commiting war crimes against each other.
Who would want to see that?
>City Boy
Is that what they're calling Jack Hawksmoor these days? It is a pretty terrible name.
I like to think of it as everyone important remembers everything that's happened to them to a degree, but the civilian population is unaware of all the cosmic changes.
Only way I really can describe it is an ongoing joke in Tom King's Batman (before everything was officially canon again) where Batman and Catwoman disagree in whether their 1st meeting happened in Batman #1 in 1940 or in Batman #404 in 1987. Some characters are more in tuned to true nature of the DCU.
Total head canon but at least it answers contradictions that pop up all the time now.
They also made Harley killing a bunch of kids canon
I forgive her and she can be a good friend now!
Wait they've referenced it?
While they're still trying to push Harley as the fourth member of the Trinity?
Since the original comics are old enough to vote, let me post some scans...
First... in Infinite Crisis, as a distraction and as a frick you to Nightwing, Deathstroke and the Brotherhood of Evil dropped Chemo on Bludhaven.
Roughly 300k people died.
Then Captain Atom decided to nuke the remains of the city for... reasons?
And the U.S. government just said frick it and gave up.
the wonderful examples of why manga grossly oustells this fricking garbage.
not sure what point you think you're making
>not sure what point you think you're making
That the pass the baton between writers has done untold amounts of damage to every single story they've ever told since they can't seem to force them accept that something in continuity was changed, they just let them hack it up and take whatever they like instead of forcing them to write within the restrictions. TLDR they hire bad writers, they allow bad writers to continue doing damage after they've been proven bad writers.
Oh, I thought you were saying something about the content of that particular page. But yes, the revolving door of writers is bad, especially when there's no strong editorial hand or long-term vision.
This seems more like they're referencing the vague acknowledgement of past continuity that we've known for years is the status quo. Not sure what the great outrage is supposed to be here.
I remember when Marvel had the country that Ultron genocided down to the last citizen (and then it was just completely sealed off magically when Bloodwraith happened) suddenly come back out of nowhere.
Yes, and to add insult to injury, the country moved from Eastern Europe to the Middle East.
Frick off OP everything is canon now and it's great.
Can we get precrisis powerlevels back?
What moron honestly thought "everything is simultaneously canon and you can just pick and choose whatever you want" was a good idea? Especially when they have no editors anymore to enforce ay kind of consistency in regards to continuity.
Wasn't it Didio?
I don't know but I like it. Wolfman was 100% correct. Continuity is a moronic shackle for comic writers. There are things like death that clearly need to be observed, but for the most part writers need to be focused on writing a good story.
>Continuity is a moronic shackle for comic writers.
Current DC is showing that's absolutely not the case. In fact, having limitations and a structure to work in benefited most of them because it prevented them from doing a lot of even more egregiously stupid shit. Also the fans get invested in the continuity and the whole shared universe thing which is effectively out the window because continuity is whatever anyone wants it to be so nobody has any idea what the continuity even is anymore which defeats the entire purpose of the shared universe. Doubly stupid for DC whose big thing has always been its sense of continuity and the legacy of heroes that spans from the Golden Age to today, both in and out of universe.
>Wolfman was 100% correct.
Wolfman is culpable for al of this nonsense. If he hadn't gotten his grubby fingerprints all over the DC Universe, we wouldn't need to put up with this barrage of reboots and bloodbaths. Frick Marv.
They had Waller leave for Earth-3 in the culmination of a Suicide Squad and forgot about it two seconds later, what do you expect?