Please, God, let this week get better

[lanaoceanid]

So, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about continuity. More specifically, what to do when continuity rips your heart out of your chests, stabs it with dull knives, pours acid inside, then laughs at you as you try to close up the gaping hole in your torso. The continuity to which I speak, of course, is that of the DCU. I was vaguely excited about

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[angel_gidget]

My little problem is that it is extremely difficult for me to abandon cannon. When things get irrevocably horrible in cannon, I sometimes find myself abandoning the fandom.

Case in point: X-men. Having Scott marry Emma and seeing my beloved Rogue and Remy transformed into small-time boring characters in the Valle Soledad saga totally caused me to leave X-men comics in the dust. I've peaked at the occasional issue since then, but I haven't bought any.

In this case, I think they'd have to kill off Tim before I leave DC behind. Either that, or replace his personality with something resembling that of Damien Wayne. I think the thing I really hate is something that isn't fixable. In comics, death of a major character is fixable. Death of a minor character is not fixable. Being transfered to an alternate dimension is fixable. Losing a limb is not fixable. Being de-aged is fixable. Being kicked out of the Bat-cave is not fixable (you can get back in, but the emotional complications are not fixable).

Now, I know that in comics there's a lot of contradictory stuff, but I can usually make it all fit in my brain. The only thing that I cannot get to work are the ages of Dick and Tim when the Flying Graysons died. If Dick is currently 26-28 and Tim is 16-17, there's about 10 years age difference between them. So how can Dick be 8-12 and Tim be 3-4 when that terrible night occurs? It doesn't work. That's the only cannon mistake that I purposefully work to ignore. Besides that, I tend to try to make all cannon work in my brain...somehow.

Kon being permanently dead is not good, but Cassie comforting Tim is good...at least as far as I'm concerned. I, personally, cannot substitue Jason stories for Kon stories though. The mood in which I read DC comics stuff is completely different from the mood in wich I read Superman Returns stuff.

These story recs looks great though. I've read and enjoyed The Last Temptation of Alfred before, and I'm currently reading Distortions on an Empty Face and am loving it. Thanks for sharing...&heart;