Comments on: Comic Dictionary - Nepotistic Continuity http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/01/15/comic-dictionary-nepotistic-continuity/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:18:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: King Cobra http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/01/15/comic-dictionary-nepotistic-continuity/comment-page-1/#comment-4014 King Cobra Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:50:51 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/01/15/comic-dictionary-nepotistic-continuity/#comment-4014 In a weird way, nepotistic continuity makes MORE sense if you take the "This is a large world, and weird things happen in a Six-Degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon kind of way." F'rinstance, why SHOULDN'T Guy Gardner's clone show up in Birds of Prey? Dinah had extensive (though negative) interactions with Guy, and shares a lot of the same "friends & family". Even the best writers tend to return to the same characters (or character archetypes) repeatedly. In a weird way, nepotistic continuity makes MORE sense if you take the "This is a large world, and weird things happen in a Six-Degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon kind of way."

F'rinstance, why SHOULDN'T Guy Gardner's clone show up in Birds of Prey? Dinah had extensive (though negative) interactions with Guy, and shares a lot of the same "friends & family".

Even the best writers tend to return to the same characters (or character archetypes) repeatedly.

]]> By: Brian Cronin http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/01/15/comic-dictionary-nepotistic-continuity/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Brian Cronin Sun, 28 May 2006 21:46:39 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/01/15/comic-dictionary-nepotistic-continuity/#comment-77 Nepotistic continuity isn't necessarily a negative thing! Sorry if I gave off that impression! Nepotistic continuity isn't necessarily a negative thing!

Sorry if I gave off that impression!

]]> By: moose n squirrel http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/01/15/comic-dictionary-nepotistic-continuity/comment-page-1/#comment-76 moose n squirrel Sun, 28 May 2006 20:23:26 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/01/15/comic-dictionary-nepotistic-continuity/#comment-76 It should be said, though, that without Dixon's nepotistic continuity, Oracle would probably never have caught on. After Ostrander's Suicide Squad, she would likely have dropped off the radar if Chuck Dixon hadn't become enamored of the character (and thus used her in every book he wrote). Thus, while John Ostrander may have rehabilitated the post-Killing Joke Barbara Gordon, Chuck Dixon and his nepotistic ways made her a major player in the DCU. It should be said, though, that without Dixon's nepotistic continuity, Oracle would probably never have caught on. After Ostrander's Suicide Squad, she would likely have dropped off the radar if Chuck Dixon hadn't become enamored of the character (and thus used her in every book he wrote). Thus, while John Ostrander may have rehabilitated the post-Killing Joke Barbara Gordon, Chuck Dixon and his nepotistic ways made her a major player in the DCU.

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