Quote Originally Posted by Ulysses View Post
What I'm driving at is that story trumps timeline, every time, hands down. There is no amount of internal timeline consistency that will smooth over a bad story. But a good story will make me forget an inconsistent timeline in an instant.
But there are also a lot of stories that work much better if there is some kind of consistent continuity.
The whole interaction between Batfamily characters kind of suffered in the new 52, because apparently not even the writers knew which part of their past were canon.

Or look at Deathstroke, we had 3 different runs since flashpoint, each time they completely changed his history and his relation with the rest of his family (Grant was for example alive at the beginning of the new 52, but now he was dead because Judas Contract is back in canon). Thats super confusing. If I read a new Deathstroke series, I want to enjoy a story and not spending most of time trying to make sense out of what is canon and what isn't.