I made a post to the guestbook in response to some recent GB messages there (one of which I deleted) and e-mails. I’m aware of Infinite Crisis and, frankly, I don’t care. DC has written themselves into a really good corner with this one, and I’m not straining my brain trying to sort out the logistics. They just don’t work. Yes, Infinite Crisis was stupid, and I’m pissed at the various deaths and retcons. DC never learns. I don’t care about the latest shakeups in the DC Universe anymore; it’s all too silly. I’ve stopped buying the books because I can’t trust DC not to kill off/erase/retcon the character I happen to be reading that month. Then they attempt to explain it away with “such and such character no longer exists in continuity but our fictional characters remember everything“. Uh, yeah, so do I. Because I’m a real person, you crazy loons, one of many who bought your damn books before you decided to piss off your readers yet again. Killing off or retconning characters is not “bold” or “creative” or “daring”. It’s lazy and foolish, and DC (AND Marvel) have been doing this since they began. You can never go back and fix a mistake like that. Connor’s gone, Linda Danvers/Supergirl (apparently) “never existed” in this new continuity, and the DC history just got even messier. DC’s constant reboots and reinventions of old characters are symptomatic of a company that cannot move forward or look outside their narrow little world (hence the misogyny and essential conservatism). When things get too much, they hit the reset button. You can only do that so many times, and they’ve long since passed their limit.
