brevoortformspring

Anonymous asked:

Recently in cons and my LCS , when Marvel continuity comes up , everyone just bitches and complains and it always goes back to the point that at the moment Marvel continuity is seriously fucked , I have seen people just drop series because it makes no sense to them how characters in multiple books timeline play out even after said stories are done with , in the past you were able to figure it out and place them but now it just makes no sense , I know you don't really care but enough people do

brevoortformspring answered:

I do care.

But I don’t think it’s anywhere near as hard as some people are making out.

So it seems to me that this is often used as an excuse when somebody just isn’t enjoying a particular title or story. Which is fine—whatever works for them.

phoenix

Honestly, people complaining about “How can X be in this story at the same time as Y story?!” has been happening for as long as I’ve been reading comics, which is over 30 years now.

It’s not ‘harder’ today, and people need to obsess a little less about it. Very rarely do stories run unimpeded with NO breaks between them. And if the costumes don’t match up perfectly? Well, Wolverine felt like wearing his old costume that day.

In the words of MST3K, “Repeat to yourself it’s just a [comic], I should really just relax.”

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