DC comic continuity question

[Maccai3]

As a lifelong reader/fan of DC, I catch myself relying on the Timm animated series when thinking on their "Universe". Kinda weird, but It spares me an aneurysm and the "who's who" of it all is infinitely more enjoyable.

 

 

It's much simpler and i agree more enjoyable...i do enjoy the Elseworlds though

[rjpb]

Extended continuity is only relevant on Earth Fanboy.

[Davenport]

As a lifelong reader/fan of DC, I catch myself relying on the Timm animated series when thinking on their "Universe". Kinda weird, but It spares me an aneurysm and the "who's who" of it all is infinitely more enjoyable.

 

 

It's much simpler and i agree more enjoyable...i do enjoy the Elseworlds though

I do too. Elseworlds, if well written, are really interesting.

 

I think the trick to enjoying DC is to consider their all works as distinct 'universes', and DC's got a gazillion of 'em. Comic universes, animated universes, game universes, Donnerverse, Elsewheres, Smallville, Arrow, and on and on.

 

Good writing will clue you in when necessary, lets a tale unfold. So DC works best, lives or dies, on good writing.

When (not if) you hit some DC uninspired phoned-in gobbledygook, you know it fairly quick.

[SciFiWasabi]

If Byrne wrote that Hippolyta was WW, then who was Hippolyta in the older books?

[Ares]

If Byrne wrote that Hippolyta was WW, then who was Hippolyta in the older books?

A Clone

[SciFiWasabi]

A clone? Are you being serious?

 

How can your clone be older than you?

 

(Also don't get me started on Wonder Girl and Tot).

[Davenport]

Check the wikipedia on Hippolyta. She's been reconned, 'phased out', killed off, brought back and revamped well beyond ridiculousness. This is what I meant by DC gobbledygook.

 

Best to just enjoy DC tales with whatever backstory is dished up, as it's presented. Otherwise you're flirting with cerebral quicksand.

[SciFiWasabi]

I juss wanna be a kid discoverin' comics in the mid-70s again....