Comments on: Oped: Doomsday Clock, Death Metal, and Narrative Consistency in Comics: Must There Be “Continuity”? https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/oped-doomsday-clock-death-metal-and-narrative-consistency-in-comics-must-there-be-continuity/ Comic Book Review And Commentary Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matthew Brake https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/oped-doomsday-clock-death-metal-and-narrative-consistency-in-comics-must-there-be-continuity/#comment-44705 Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:06:36 +0000 https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/?p=150835#comment-44705 In reply to Bob Batchelor.

Hey Bob!

Yeah, really enjoyed it (and I wrote a review of it for…I can’t remember which journal…but am happy to send it your way if you’re interested!

Thank you for engaging with this post! Love the idea of Updike being a Watcher kind of figure of his universe…

Once again, thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Bob Batchelor https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/oped-doomsday-clock-death-metal-and-narrative-consistency-in-comics-must-there-be-continuity/#comment-44215 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:36:01 +0000 https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/?p=150835#comment-44215 Hey Matthew, glad you’re reading the Stan Lee biography! I really like your idea of “narrative trust” and its consequences.

In my own reading life, I’ve noticed that after a childhood and teen life of reading comic books, that I started viewing a great deal of writing as an engaged universe. For example, all of Jane Austen’s or John Updike’s work took on a shared universe perspective. Perhaps my Marvel reading led me to see Updike, for instance, as a Watcher kind of creator over a giant Updike universe.

I share the concerns about breaking the trust issues and how that can turn off readers and/or viewers.

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