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Rick Whiting
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I despise the practice of taking older stories and doing the whole "everything you thought you knew was wrong" storylines. I may not be a fan of new stories that take the characters in what I see as a wrongheaded direction, but I loathe the current writers mucking with the past for what seems to be an all-too-frequent thing anymore. Let the past stories be.
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A recent example of this is when the writer of the short lived Mockingbird series changing and retconning that old West Coast Avengers story where Night Rider held Mockingbird captive (via mind control) in the old west for about a week to Mockingbird (I think) willingly staying with him and having an affair with his ghost after she returned to the present. So the writer turned Mockingbird from a captured hero to a cheating hero.
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John Byrne
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I’m a big fan of “Things are Not Always as They Seem” stories, but “Everything You Know is a Lie” is just a cheat.
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Rick Whiting
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The most common and trendy modern day fan fiction and What If/Imaginary Stories that a lot of newer fans turn pros are writing as cannon at the Big 2 are heroes having kids and then aging those kids into teenagers. I really hate that trend.
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John Byrne
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Somehow, the middle-aged writers who created the Silver Age understood the superhero concept SO much better than the fans who aged into middle-aged writers.
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