[>quote][/quote]Pedro’s first post, a boastful and inaccurate declaration, was followed by rambling pettiness, peppered with weak jokes and emoticons that did nothing to disguise his bitterness at the inevitable evolution of the industry and his snide attacks on everyone who doesn’t agree with him, from myself to Dan Didio(!?).
Alan, I don't know what problem you have with emoticons, or why you think you use "humour" and I have only weak jokes. Seems to me exactly the other way around.
Now, I'm quite certain that I haven't "attacked" you. To this moment, I have only pointed a continuity mistake -due to a lack of research that you have recogniced-, have explained why your views about the story and how it works are not good enought -due, again, to some erroneous ideas about Rama-Tut's origin and chronology-, and exposed my own ideas about how continuity works, and why I think writers should read some comics and do some research about the characters they are going to use (or at least have a good "continuity cop" do that for them).
Pedro’s constantly repeated error is that my use of the Sphinx was mistaken. I have tried to make clear in earlier postings that I made a deliberate choice which plays into a long story I am currently working on BUT, even if that does not work out, I believe using the Sphinx as I did can be justified in any number of ways. Creativity is about spinning things in an unexpected way. Not by endlessly tying the same loose ends.
I think is still wrong with the info that the story and YOU gave me. Are you missleading me, like in your first post?
Anyway, just for the record, your Sphinx is not a problem to me, I already suggested how all that can fit. Now, to me is far more important your erroneous conception about continuity:
My point is that any attempt to establish exact continuity is nonsense.
I think it should be crystal clear, but anyway, continuity MUST BE EXACT, or is of no use at all. Can be changed, can be further explained, but if we don't agree in what has happened, a continuity open to particular interpretations won't last two months.
About my comments concerning Mr. Didio, they will surely be absolutly mysterious to somebody who doesn't reads -suffers- current DC Comics like you. Let's just say that in this week "Lying in the Gutters" they say how he's still making Grant Morrison crazy with rewrites of the veeeeeeeeeery late Final Crisis # 7 and he just had a big argument with James Robinson that made him leave Superman. I think Chuck Dixon hit the bullseye with his comments about him. Anyway, among many other creative and personal issues, he has no absolute idea about how continuity works and how to stablish one. I can say that because I read lots of DC Comics monthly.
By the way, some guys in Spain are having real fun with this debate, and my "weak jokes", check me being rejected by the Legion of Super-creators, Alan-Lad
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