It is so FREAKING over the top hahahahahaha! The first couple pages of the Flash crossover issue are kinda hilarious when you know THAT'S what's going on with Zolomon Hunter (Hunter Zolomon?) aka Zoom. (Linda Park, the news reporter, is Flash's wife, the one Zoom wants to kill for Flash's own good.)
Y'know, I started trying to read the wikipedia article explaining Crisis, but decided I was happy with the high-level "continuity was such a mess that they couldn't even retcon it with multiple universes/timelines anymore, so they had a multi-title extravaganza in which they destroyed all the extra universes / timelines plus a whole bunch of characters they were tired of, and for the characters they decided to keep they picked ONE CONTINUITY EACH and went from there." If I actually read a bunch of Silver/Bronze Age titles and cared about how they linked with post-Crisis continuity, then it MIGHT be worth it to me to bother with the Watsonian explanation, but frankly, the Doylist explanation works JUST FINE FOR MY PURPOSES.
This, btw, explains why I was recognizing *nothing* when you were talking about how awesome Diana was, nor when I was reading Rucka's run: the last time I was an active Diana fan, it was pre-Crisis/Bronze Age, and the continuity she had then doesn't seem to be the continuity she had/has in Volume 2.
Is the rebootish event the issues between Rucka and Simone that you advised skipping?
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Y'know, I started trying to read the wikipedia article explaining Crisis, but decided I was happy with the high-level "continuity was such a mess that they couldn't even retcon it with multiple universes/timelines anymore, so they had a multi-title extravaganza in which they destroyed all the extra universes / timelines plus a whole bunch of characters they were tired of, and for the characters they decided to keep they picked ONE CONTINUITY EACH and went from there." If I actually read a bunch of Silver/Bronze Age titles and cared about how they linked with post-Crisis continuity, then it MIGHT be worth it to me to bother with the Watsonian explanation, but frankly, the Doylist explanation works JUST FINE FOR MY PURPOSES.
This, btw, explains why I was recognizing *nothing* when you were talking about how awesome Diana was, nor when I was reading Rucka's run: the last time I was an active Diana fan, it was pre-Crisis/Bronze Age, and the continuity she had then doesn't seem to be the continuity she had/has in Volume 2.
Is the rebootish event the issues between Rucka and Simone that you advised skipping?