Let's Talk January: Mithen's Personal History of Superman and Batman!
I got an anonymous request for either Clark or Bruce's (or Dick's, but that's so tied to Bruce's) story as I see it from start to present--that is to say, what do I pick and choose from different continuities and canons to make my Superman or Batman? This is a hard and interesting question! The simple cheating answer is that I change it depending
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And it really didn't do him and any of his supporting cast any favours. I still think that something like the New52 could have been exciting and interesting with better planning and with changes mindful of who these characters are at the core.
(you mentioned this problem crops up in Doctor Who as well!)
It does happen in Doctor Who sometimes, but it has only become really annoying with Moffat recently with the way he's wrapping up the seasons he's been writing so far. It started out much like the seasons that were made by his predecessor with nods to Classic Who serials here and there that were fun and engaging and then went overboard with it and in the process contradiction or fundamentally changing the things that were established in the first four season of the Doctor Who reboot. It stopped being clever and charming and became annoying then - and a bit stale I think.
I'm asking myself if this isn't because of something that's very prevalent in comics too: nerdy fan writes canon now and takes opportunity to make own fanon and preferences canon. This doesn't have to be a problem when the writer in question is aware of it and treads carefully and with keeping the narrative in mind, but sometimes it simply has the potential to go wrong.
Although I've seen it happen with writers who weren't the long-running fans of something, who were brought in and tried to leave their mark and completely misunderstanding the characters and their backstory in the process...
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