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4. Continuity is damaged because it’s becoming impossible to refer back to past issues when they all have the same numbers. Remember the little yellow boxes that would occasionally appear in a comic that directed readers to a specific issue number from the past to help inform readers about what happened to a character? Well, that’s basically an impossibility now when there are multiple issue #3s for a character.
Continuity doesn’t rely on issue numbers, it relies on the creators of today remembering and referencing the stories of yesterday. That happens regardless of what numbers happen to be on the covers. And those little yellow boxes you speak about haven’t been widely used for about a decade now, ever since we entered a world in which everything was most often collected in book form, which made them more off-putting to casual readers than ever. Saying that we can no longer do something that we’re no longer doing in the first place isn’t a very convincing argument.