Is continuity still in marvel universe?

[Hostile Kangaroo]

I am just back reading marvel comics after a 20yrs pause, and i am enjoying some now! titles...

I am very confused about continuity. How can storm be quietly at the school doing nothing on all new x-men, while appearing in herpunk look on uncanny x-force title.

Similarly, i am not reading the new avengers title. I just can figure out how mr richards can be lost in a different universe in FF and still appearon earth in another book.

Not to mention wolverine, he is everywhere. Or spiderman, who undergoes all these chamges but still find the time tripping to mars to watch captain universe pat the badguys on their butts?

So, is continuity gone? Sorry if this is a newbie post, but any comment would be helpful! Thanks!

1) The first couple issues of All New X-Men took place just prior to the current Wolverine and the X-Men. You can see this because teen!Jean has arrived in WatX. In WatX, in the issue with Jean's arrival, Storm went through an emotional change and decided to cut her hair. Obviously, Uncanny X-Men is after that.

2) New Avengers seems to take place the earliest of most of the NOW! titles. He will probably go to space after the first arc.

3) Since those arcs started before Spider-Man changed, they didn't want to spoil it so they had it take place before.

[Doctuh]

Questions like this remind me of a two part story that Jason Aaron did in Wolverine called "A Day in The Life" (Wolverine vol. 3, #73-74) that shows Wolverine going through a week where one day he's on the Avengers, then doing something with X-Force the next day, with the X-Men another, and so on and so forth.

I'm totally waiting for someone to retcon that after some magical explosion or something, different bits of Wolverine regenerated into new Wolverines which have each been running around doing the different things.

[Parch]

There are points where books eventually do have to catch up to each other... company wide events for example. But books published the same month with the same character often aren't happening at the same time. Sometimes you can't arrange the pieces until after the fact.

Yeah, crossover won't disappear, but I do wish titles continue to become more self-contained without being handcuffed to the Marvel universe.
The absolute obsession of some fans with continuity can really get ridiculous. I think it limits the creativity and flexibility of creative teams. I wish Marvel would just go with a very loose continuity and let more comics focus on being quality, stand-alone titles.

[DebkoX]

Welcome to Marvel.

Its so crazy.

[Juggernaut Punch]

I am very confused about continuity. How can storm be quietly at the school doing nothing on all new x-men, while appearing in herpunk look on uncanny x-force title.

Uncanny X-Force takes place after that arc of All New X-Men. Storm cuts her hair in Wolverine and the X-Men #24

Similarly, i am not reading the new avengers title. I just can figure out how mr richards can be lost in a different universe in FF and still appearon earth in another book.

Fantastic Four takes place after New Avengers

Not to mention wolverine, he is everywhere. Or spiderman, who undergoes all these chamges but still find the time tripping to mars to watch captain universe pat the badguys on their butts?

Avengers takes place before Superior Spider-Man.

So, is continuity gone? Sorry if this is a newbie post, but any comment would be helpful! Thanks!

Not at all, the timeline is simply a bit confusing. Concurrent books are taking place during different time-periods. For example, in Uncanny Avengers, Cyclops is still in jail, yet in All New X-Men he's already been out for quite some time and has had time to liberate a bunch of mutants and set up his own headquarters.

[The Black Guardian]

I am just back reading marvel comics after a 20yrs pause, and i am enjoying some now! titles...

I am very confused about continuity. How can storm be quietly at the school doing nothing on all new x-men, while appearing in herpunk look on uncanny x-force title.

Similarly, i am not reading the new avengers title. I just can figure out how mr richards can be lost in a different universe in FF and still appearon earth in another book.

Not to mention wolverine, he is everywhere. Or spiderman, who undergoes all these chamges but still find the time tripping to mars to watch captain universe pat the badguys on their butts?

So, is continuity gone? Sorry if this is a newbie post, but any comment would be helpful! Thanks!

No, continuity is not gone. Just because books are released in the same month doesn't mean they're happening at or close to the same time. It's really not confusing at all. You really don't need to be worrying about goings-on in other books until they are mentioned.

[Chiasm]

Continuity is flexible.

[Amazing Ishmael]

Uncanny X-Force takes place after that arc of All New X-Men. Storm cuts her hair in Wolverine and the X-Men #24



Fantastic Four takes place after New Avengers



Avengers takes place before Superior Spider-Man.



Not at all, the timeline is simply a bit confusing. Concurrent books are taking place during different time-periods. For example, in Uncanny Avengers, Cyclops is still in jail, yet in All New X-Men he's already been out for quite some time and has had time to liberate a bunch of mutants and set up his own headquarters.

Thanks man, this was really helpful!!!