![]() ![]() You can have a Batman that's a literal vampire, but to me that's no longer Batman. However, I also see a lot of fiction writers (especially superhero comic writers) who decide their plot is more important than the established histories and characterizations of the existing characters and have these characters make decisions that have no connection to who they've been in the past. I'm aware that a fresh perspective on a character can work wonders (for example Frank Miller's Daredevil). I'm not talking about What Ifs and Elseworlds or a new take on a character either. ![]() However, if a fiction writer is contracted to write a story using characters owned and created by someone else, that writer should do their best to maintain consistency at least with characterization and lore. I may not want to read it, but I have no problems with it. To which I responded: I believe that if a fiction writer is creating the plot and characters that they can do pretty much anything and it's fine. I'm not so familiar with DC in the 1950s as to be able to pinpoint any specific stories that might have included characters from eventual multiverses unless they were retcons.ĬlarkKent_DC responded: You say that as if that's something a fiction writer is not supposed to do. He was, after all, the king of the "impossible" story. ![]() ![]() Over in the thread What is the Earliest Multiverse Story, I wrote the following: It's difficult for me to accept any Wonder Woman story written by Robert Kanigher as being even remotely canonical since he basically made stuff up to fit his plots. ![]()
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