#cosocomics Interestingly enough, as we face another DC “reboot” while Marvel Comics just keeps shooting forward, Marvel Comics is why DC has this problem. The literary model of having a “Universe” was not-quite-invented but extraordinarily popularized by Lee, Kirby, Ditko, etc. in the 60s. It’s become the most hugely popular conceit in fictional media period, but this wasn’t always the case & it took a while for DC to catch up in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths.
@feloneouscat it doesn’t specifically have anything to do with what the contents of the films are really. It isn’t necessary to have a strong “Universe” at all. Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Conan, Tarzan, and John Carter are some of the most popular things ever written in English, and none of those are strongly bounded book to book - the characters are the attraction, the latest is whatever new scenario as the content, and, next book, everybody mostly stays on square one again.
@Chriskorvela TBF DC has a LOT of good characters and stories that they’ve bastardized on film (Constantine to name one — Keanu Reeves is just awful).
Sandman is the best so far. Batman I’m still waiting for them to get right.