Comments on: Comic Dictionary – Nepotistic Continuity

By: Adam Weissman

Adam Weissman — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:11:42 +0000

Starlin does a lot of this:

Hardcore Station, The Weird, Thanos,

Peter David did a bit of this between Incredible Hulk and Captain Marvel.

By: Terence

Terence — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:55:35 +0000

Two more words.
Grant & Morrison

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:03:53 +0000

2 words:
Englehart
Mantis

By: King Cobra

King Cobra — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:50:51 +0000

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

Brian Cronin — Sun, 28 May 2006 21:46:39 +0000

Nepotistic continuity isn’t necessarily a negative thing!

Sorry if I gave off that impression!

By: moose n squirrel

moose n squirrel — Sun, 28 May 2006 20:23:26 +0000

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.