Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Time to space out the DC continuity

The DC comics news out of San Diego Comicon is that they are bringing back the Archie Comics heroes (like the Fly and the Shield) and the Milestone heroes (Icon, Static) into the DC universe.

Nice to see those characters again, but how crowded is that universe? The way their continuity is set up there were tons of heroes in the 1940s-50s, then almost nothing, then everything from the first appearance of the Silver Age flash to now (almost 50 years) has taken place over the last 10 or so years.

Why not spread the heroics out a bit? There must be some good 1960s-1980s DC universe in continuity stories. Let the characters age well so that their stories will do the same.

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