I like the way things are in the DC universe currently and I dont want to see it rebooted. I want them to make changes but I dont want them erasing anything they’ve done just to do it. If it was a mistake they can just write something to fix it, instead of total wipe out.

IE they make Jimmy Olsen gay, the fans dont like it. Oh lets create a universe destroying event to fix that.

but its true about Marvel not stopping on the cake frosting. Theres sometimes too much and its a bit confusing and frustrating if you arent willing to dig through it.

I personally dislike One More Day and thats just what Dc does on a smaller scale. This marvel doing it on one character.

but this more about DC.

Because finding out that you hate me for being right would shatter my world into a sad face with a single emo tear slowly trickling down my cheek.

Hello Weston,
Nice hearing from you again. Although interestingly written and structurally exquisite its not something most of us don’t already know. So the question becomes where were you going with your point? Was it an indictment that Final Crisis is going to suck because DC has a history of re-working its character concepts in major events or that Marvel’s Skrull war is going to blow chunks because Marvel doesn’t know when to stop slopping on the cake frosting?

I’ve never read Secret Wars, Inifity Gauntlet and X-men Inferno never retconned anything.

What i’m saying is that DC has a tendancie to retweak characters to fit the current times. The crisis of Multiple earths was just DC trying to make sense of the chaos that they made between its Golden Age Characters, Silver Age, and Modern Age charactesr.

Look at Golden Age Flash/Green Lantern and Silver Age. The GA characters where shelved because people lost interest in Superheroe Comics then a renaissance happened with the Silver Age and they decided to recreate those characters.

It was when the GA flash and SA Flash met face to face was when there was recognition that they belonged to two universes then eventually merged into one timeline.

Then you have characters like Blue Beetle and Shazam both acquistions from other companies, Shoehorned into the Dc universe.

The only characters they wouldnt touch where there flagship characters Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman even Aquaman instead opting to just rewrite their origins each generation.

The big three where Golden Age characters but instead changed and unlike characters like Flash and Green Lantern they never passed down their legacies to anyone. With exception to Batman DC has never really tried to change the Trinity.

Now Marvel for the most part has kept their timeline even with reality changes, adding to what was there instead of ignoring it. Yes Marvel doesnt have the legacies like DC has.

DC has more characters that are about passing down their legacies, flash, green lantern, blue beetle.

However Marvel has the X-men, they may not pass down titles like Dc characters but they are like a Class in School. Logan will always be Wolverine and I doubt that he’ll ever pass his name to anyone but he will be there to teach the generation of mutants.

Steve Rogers had others take up his mantle of Captain America before Winter Soldier; Tony Stark had James Rhodes; Hank Pym had Scott Lang; Johnny Blaze had Danny Ketch.

Of course like Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman Marvel isnt willing to change any of these characters, well until recently. But I was never arguing who had the better legacy I was talking about timeline and reality changes.

DC has been about destroying realities in order to force unneccesarry changes. Marvel has a different approach to that, layering on history like frosting on a cake.

I would love to explain the difference but theres too much history between both companies to explain.