For example,
Justice League New Frontier is a great story, and it mostly follows the Silver Age continuity, but of course Diana doesn't remember those events since they were never in the mainstream universe.
For example,
Justice League New Frontier is a great story, and it mostly follows the Silver Age continuity, but of course Diana doesn't remember those events since they were never in the mainstream universe.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't a major retcon like that in an anniversary special with other non continuity stories have to be confirmed within canon stories pre Death Metal?
It really doesn't matter anymore with the current status quo since some people should be able go remember her Golden Age adventures
It doesn't matter if you use the term retcon or not, because the powers that are the DC editors at large have already stated that everything is legit. It's only up to the author to decide what he wants to use. Instead of using characters from different earths, they decided to group them altogether which is another reason why DC is headed to the crapper.
How easy would it have been to give these new runs like nu52 their own earth instead of saying that everything is canon? Monumentally stupid. Any dumb blonde joke that you can think of needs to be applied to the DC editors and higher ups. No offense to any blondes (of which I am one).
The part where people remembering past lives is in the epilogue, when Barry is talking to Wally
Jim lee said when Infinite Frontier began that they will focus more on character than continuity. All the methods to make everything canon, Omniverse, Metaverse, Hypertime, Memories, and Speed Force are all methods to explain things should inconsistency arise, for those who require an explanation.
So a writer can choose not to utilize Past Memories if they don't want to, especially since Infinite Frontier hinted that not everyone got their memory back.
Since what is canon in the current continuity is what is written in flashbacks or mentions by current writers, it can be either
Until it's clarified, my way is simply to use logic and elimination. If Steve is currently Rebirth's age and almost all mainstream Wonder Woman origin involved him as the reason Diana came to man's world, then Diana didn't come to America in 1939.
Oh yeah, so the magical clay is still canon, just that Diana isn't made of it.
Hmm one idea is that maybe Deva was simply breathed into life by the Titans. I mean, do they really NEED magic clay? Well, sort of.
In a way Diana is Deva's mother. Diana added a bit of her own blood to the clay used to make Deva. So that Deva would be tainted with the ability to do good. She's not bound to do the will of her creators.... she just wanted to... at first. Not sure she still does. She's been hanging out with Humans recently.
Wait... does this mean Deva now has Zeus's blood flowing in her veins?
But then, what was the point of having that story in the first place now? I know it was to set up where things were to have gone for 5G, but it feels like a cheat to ignore it sat this date.
Then again, it sometimes feels like DC doesn't give a damn about redefining/clarifying their Golden Age history in a way that will be useful.
I don't know, but it also just my guess.
For example, by logic an elimination I concluded that Jon Kent was born before Tim Drake became Robin, but it turns out not to be the case. At least presumably, based on unlettered preview of Dark Crisis flashback.
So likewise, WW can still be debuting in 1939, and there's no explanation.
Jon Kent wasn't introduced (born) until Convergence back in 2015.
He was still a much younger kid when he started appearing regularly during Rebirth, probably closer in age to Damian than he was to Tim.
But after that, BENDIS came along and completely screwed over the Superman line . . .