Batman, Crisis, Continuity, Morrison: I need Help.

[Sn4tcH]

I'm a pretty recent reader to the DCU, and before this past year I never really cared much about continuity. But while reading Morrisons run on Batman, it made me start thinking about it more and more. Basically I want to ask a few questions and make sure I have things straight.

So basically as CoIE ends, we have multiple Earths combining, thus taking our favorite characters and combining the different versions of them into one character with one history. Am I right so far?

Okay, so while reading Morrisons run, I've heard people say that his point of view is that "everything is still in continuity". This is why he's able to bring up things that happened in the Black Casebook and such.

So when Batman goes back to and thinks about things like Zur En Arrh and his time in the isolation chamber, does he remember it as the original stories depict it or would the stories have changed in his mind to fit his post Year One persona?

Or are these questions that are simply not able to be answered?

[T Hedge Coke]

The stories are continuity in only a very broad/vague sense. The idea is that the earlier comics may have been attempts to tell the story of what really happened, but that the details of those stories may be incorrect in some ways.

So, every story ever published about Batman isn't canon, but every story is fair game to be pillaged for canonical material.

And, really, I wouldn't worry about it much, anyway. Canonicity is in the eye of the beholder.

[Batman Examiner]

Thinking too hard about it will hurt your head.

Like....

Kathy Kane apparently still exists......but does she co-exist with Kate Kane????


Julie Madison was an actress who dumped Bruce according to Morrison....or was she was redhead law student???