Quote Originally Posted by Bruce Wayne View Post
Continuity and shared universes only works if the writers/editors engaged in creating content are acting in good faith. It doesn't work if you have someone like Bendis claiming that he's being held back by the prior work of inferior writers and doesn't care about how a character was used by his supposedly inferior predecessors. Or like Slott/the Fantastic Four editors who deliberately changed a character because they didn't want to share the character with the X-book. Or Joe Q breaking the marriage because of his personal issues or Dan Didio sabotaging the Flash book because he hates Wally. Or in the case of DC editorial where they pay lip service to continuity, but no one is on the same page and nobody is communicating about what they are doing due to inter-office politics. Ultimately the egos and pettiness of comic book creators undermines the idea of continuity.
Which doesn't discard the importance or utility of staying in continuity and keeping a continuity, it just shows that the sorry mess that is current DC is incapable of doing so. Why must something made trivial by its competitors be so convoluted for DC? Why is DC so out of touch with its fanbase? These questions and more at 5.