"But it sounds like you’re more interested in your own personal continuity and being rewarded for having read a lot of comics than you are in a story that works, that is emotionally affecting, that has something to say about the human condition." There you go again. Continuity MATTERS. You may think it doesn't, but you're just the ass in the seat (for now). And if you are going to speak of stories that matter, actually give us some instead of the slop YOU'VE been serving for the past 5+ years.