Comments on: A Unit of Continuity

By: Dr Archeville

Dr Archeville — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:30:52 +0000

Conveniently, "G" can also stand for "Gruenwald" (Mark Gruenwald) whose fanzine explored the concept of continuity (and he himself had almost all Marvel's continuity and trivia memorized).

By: mrmanatee

mrmanatee — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:23:40 +0000

Also, if it the publisher could spare a bit of space inside, they could have a list of recommended reading for high-G comics.

And there’s also the issue of comics that require lots of non-comics knowledge.

By: mrmanatee

mrmanatee — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:18:18 +0000

I’d debate you on that Sandman: The Doll’s House score. I read it with no familiarity with the silver age Sandman, and I’ve gotta say, it didn’t make a whole lot of sense, purpose-wise.

More importantly, what about books that are heavily entrenched in backstory, normally rating 3+ Geoffs, but also throw out or debunk a previous storyline or two? Nothing comes to mind immediately but I’m sure they exist. How would that get rated?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 May 2006 01:03:39 +0000

Steven said “But you understand a lot more about the characters and their deeper meaning by knowing them as their Charlton versions; as well as knowing some Bob Dylan songs and Coleridge’s minor works.” Dr. Scott can dish out negative ratings this way too(”but you understand a lot more about how incompetent the characters are when they do surgery by having gone to medical school…”). Speaking of bad character surgeons, when’s the next Medical Review? Even I caught a mistake in Y #45, but I’m no doctor.

By: Do You Feel Loved?

Do You Feel Loved? — Sat, 13 May 2006 15:22:18 +0000

links for 2006-05-13…

Polite Dissent » A Unit of Continuity: comics, medicine, and medical comics Being a proposal to create a unit……

By: Maire Smith

Maire Smith — Sat, 13 May 2006 08:51:34 +0000

The Dolls House was actually the first Sandman I read and almost the first DC comic I read. It was quite enjoyable enough to hook me firmly.

By: Ragnell

Ragnell — Sat, 13 May 2006 05:16:31 +0000

Well, when I started out I preferred the well-into-their-history ones, about 3-5Gs, because it gave me stuff to research and back issues to find.

But to each their own, I say this is a pretty good idea.

By: Redhead Fangirl

Redhead Fangirl — Sat, 13 May 2006 02:35:21 +0000

Continuity code! Ha! Perhaps that would stop me from trying to understand
infinite multiverses and characters, where I feel like I need a “debriefing”. Well,
that’s why we comic bloggers always have things to write about. This is why I love
a new series, issue 1. Then you don’t get the “sigh, back when Claremont was writing
Xmen in the 80s”…

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:19:04 +0000

Shouldn’t all fiction work that way? That you can enjoy it even if you know nothing else about it, but being versed in previous work deepens one’s understanding? Sticking just to comics, Watchmen should have a rating of 0 Gs, because it is a stand alone mini-series. But you understand a lot more about the characters and their deeper meaning by knowing them as their Charlton versions; as well as knowing some Bob Dylan songs and Coleridge’s minor works. In a perfect world, all comics would have a duel rating of 0 and infinity, so that the more you know, the more you can come back and get more out of the work.

By: gorjus

gorjus — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:00:31 +0000

I worry that Scott is going to want to start an “Approved by the Continuity Code” imprint so’s he can screen all comics early. I swear, though, there’s some logic in this. Some of the comics coming out right now ought to just say “don’t read this, you won’t frickin’ understand it unless you have been reading comics since ‘83.”

She-Hulk is like Sandman, I think: you can get the concept in about .5G, but full maximum continuity pleasure is reached at 3 or so.