mattfromitaly
asked:
Are the Handbooks you edit considered useful inside Marvel HQ, as well as they are outside? most fans i meet online seem to regard them as useful only partially, for their story recap, since the actual storylines in the last decade show different outcome from battles than the HB would suggest; some Authors seem to have their own in-story categorization, does that mean you have to adapt theirs into yours? Or are yours "general best" stats and theirs "story-specific occasions"?
The Handbooks are a reference library, and are useful as such. but they don’t determine what goes into next month’s stories.
Let me put this to you another way: I can have all of the stats from last year’s Major League Baseball season–every game, every play, every pitch. But none of that data is going to tell me who’s going to win the World Series this year. It’s useful information, but it does not determine any outcome.