Re: Why don't DC publish "period" issues?

On 07 May 2006, the voices tell me "Paul O'Neill"
<news-y@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx dot net> wrote:

Wouldn't it solve all the continuity problems if the comics weren't
published in such a strict month-to-month setting?

I mean, that way, if someone comes up with a really cool Ra's Al Ghul
story, then they can set it in a time before some other author killed
him off. They don't have to figure out how to resurrect him, or even
worse, bring him back with no explanation. We have could have Jay
Garrick flash stories set during WWII without needing to explain why.
The comic book characters wouldn't have to age (or they could be as
old as the author wants) by shifting the setting to whatever year is
appropriate.

All DC need to do is come up with an overall timeline as a guide. For
example: Clark and Lois are co-workers to this year, dating this year,
married with kids, a super-cat and a Kryptonian Dog by this year, and
so when an author wants to write about them as <whatever> they can
just set it there and then.

I can see how it might cause a few problems, but I think it would
solve more.




This sort of thing has been done for years already -- true, not with a
timeline that has set dates for most of it (the "XX years ago" thing
being used to substitute), but there have been minis, maxis, one-shots
and even ongoings (ASSq/YAS, LotDCU & JLA:C, anyone?) written to fill in
the gaps (or fit in =between= the gaps) between the recorded canon events
of the DCU.

There's an enormous opportunity for this kind of series now, though, with
the New Earth in play, an opportunity that was mostly wasted following
ZERO HOUR, an opportunity that's only going to be cursorily addressed by
the historic back-ups in 52.

We need a WW2 title. We need something that addresses the interregnum
between the end of the JSA and the mini-resurgence that produced the
Justice Experience and its like. We need a book that tells the story of
the end of that era and the beginning of this Modern Heroic Age. We need
a book that picks up somewhere in the middle of this Age (maybe just
post-CoIE) and tells us the history of =that= portion of time.

In short, what we need is a weekly HISTORY OF THE DCU, either as a multi-
story anthology, a single title with rotating features, or a set of
individual titles under a HotDCU banner.

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