I personally don't read comics in a structured way so I've had to choose to not be affected by "continuity glitches". Generally read collections and what is available from the friendly neighborhood library. From time to time, tho' (here and elsewhere) I do see people who are *much* more knowledgable about comics - who remember everything going back several years (if not all the way back) and I think the continuity area (or even a chronology area) is a very serious & passionate thing for some of the *serious* collectors. Periodically I come across the efforts of these hard working people where they create a reading order of sorts for a particular cross-over event (eg. the Blackest Night event) where they will even go down and say read till Page X of Issue Y, stop and then continue with this other Event in another comic and once finished, you can go back and read it in this order. Generally I can't follow that based on reading collections and the other collection not being available (eg for Blackest Night, I have yet to read the Green Lantern and GLC tie-in collections) yet to me. But I would like to salute their efforts.
Tho' I do feel it must be a losing(?) or at least a very frustrating battle to try to assemble continuities or biographies for a character let alone one crossover event since neither of the two companies can do much about keeping it all resolved. Thanks & a hearty keep-at-it from my side to all of you who are continuing this effort.
Their efforts are invaluable to me - even tho' I find it hard to find what they have researched and placed since it's so diffuse & distributed on the Internet. eg. I recently read the X-Men: Messiah Complex collection (which analyzes from the X-men's perspective the events surrounding the birth of an important mutant after M-Day or Decimation or whatever that event where You-Know-Who did You-Know-What to the Mutants - trying to keep it as spoiler-free for people who've not read too much about the X-men in the past few years ) and I remember one of my friends gave me a couple of comic issues about Bishop and Cable's antics in the time stream. Now I want to find the "surrounding" stories but am finding it tough to find all the collections that I need to read and in which order. This opinion might be unique to me - but at least when they have crossover events, they will release all the collections under the crossover event's name as time (eg. Blackest Night). I don't think I have this kinda luxury with the X-men and the birth of You-Know-Who. I don't even know whether they have revealed whose child it is.
Tho' I do feel it must be a losing(?) or at least a very frustrating battle to try to assemble continuities or biographies for a character let alone one crossover event since neither of the two companies can do much about keeping it all resolved. Thanks & a hearty keep-at-it from my side to all of you who are continuing this effort.
Their efforts are invaluable to me - even tho' I find it hard to find what they have researched and placed since it's so diffuse & distributed on the Internet. eg. I recently read the X-Men: Messiah Complex collection (which analyzes from the X-men's perspective the events surrounding the birth of an important mutant after M-Day or Decimation or whatever that event where You-Know-Who did You-Know-What to the Mutants - trying to keep it as spoiler-free for people who've not read too much about the X-men in the past few years ) and I remember one of my friends gave me a couple of comic issues about Bishop and Cable's antics in the time stream. Now I want to find the "surrounding" stories but am finding it tough to find all the collections that I need to read and in which order. This opinion might be unique to me - but at least when they have crossover events, they will release all the collections under the crossover event's name as time (eg. Blackest Night). I don't think I have this kinda luxury with the X-men and the birth of You-Know-Who. I don't even know whether they have revealed whose child it is.
