Conecdote: Canonicity

Conecdote: Canonicity

Feb 08

[What’s a Conecdote?  It’s an anecdote…from a con.  Duh.]

So I’m at dinner in Hell’s Kitchen on Friday night with about eight other people.  We’re all talking comics, and someone utters the ‘F’ word: Final Crisis.  I’m suddenly the only person in the room defending the book and getting piled on by everyone, including maybe the waiter.  “It was ambitious, if flawed, and it has some really amazing moments,” I protest, but nobody wants to hear it.  The counterpoints stack like Tetris blocks and I am finally broken.  And it is this that broke me:

“‘Darkseid always hated music’?  What?  Where was that established?  What issue did that happen in? Because I think that Morrison just made that shit up.”

Tom Brevoort frequently talks about how it’s better for continuity to serve the story than for the story to serve continuity, and this is a prime example.

A few arguments and/or possibilities:

1. He’s Darkseid.  Why would he LIKE music?
2. Pied Piper.  Countdown.  Just saying
3. Darkseid not actually Dick Turpin, but actually John Lithgow from Footloose.  No, wait.  That’s dancing.  How great would it have been if Superman beat him with the power of dancing?