prodigalgeek
asked:
Been re-reading the brilliant 1998 Avengers run by Busiek and Pérez, with you on edits! What I especially enjoyed was the sense of shared Marvel continuity that came with multiple footnotes attributed to you indicating simultaneous storylines and previous plots from other books. I'm all for not being beholden to continuity these days and keeping it fluid, but I really miss that blurring of lines between titles. Any reason (or reasons!) why we don't see that as much (if at all!) today?
I think we do see that, we just see it in a different way. In a world in which everything we do is collected in book editions, having footnotes within those books that refer to individual issues of the serialized comic comes across to many as exclusionary, and even a bit useless. But we still pull story elements from all across the Marvel Universe in our current stories–everything from Hickman building a recent issue of AVENGERS around an incident from an issue of Grant Morrison’s NEW X-MEN run, to Bendis bringing the original X-Men to the present out of the pages of a specific Stan Lee/Jack Kirby issue of X-MEN.