"rant"links?

[philippos42]

"The Great [Grant] Morrison circle jerk"
Well, yeah, continuity porn.

Read any of Steven Grant's rants about comic-book universe-building.
This isn't even the one I was looking for, but it's apropos

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[thehefner]

It's worse. It's continuity porn from several different continuities that simply do not and cannot mesh. Case in point, Jason now apparently had dyed his red hair, even though Pre-Crisis Jason and Post-Crisis Jason are not at all compatible.

[philippos42]

Hey, I'm a Wondy fan. Whenever they were trying to say (post-IC) that Wonder Woman "had her pre-Crisis history back," I was like, but that was a different character, & which history anyway? I'm used to this now.

Considering the midstreamy daftness of the post-CoIE Batman soft reboot, I think this sort of discontinuity since is unfortunately to be expected, & the red hair at least is a pretty mild thing.

I mean, Superman's had Krypton rebooted how many times now, with plot points hanging off each new contradictory version? They're just stories; discontinuity within DC is older than either of us. Morrison isn't unifying the continuity; he's telling stories within an existing sea of discontinuity, with the gimmick that his particular patchwork of references to different versions is sold as "unifying the continuity."