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It most definitely was a retroactive change of continuity.
But it was changing the past moving forward. From that point on, the marriage had never happened. If they explained that the marriage had always never happened (you just thought it had, for some strange reason) then that would be a retcon.
How do you punch reality? If I punched this table hard enough would I crack Earth 3?
Are you Kryptonian?
I'm glad they brought up ruining Batgirl too.
That was a fucking travesty. Way worse, actually, than Superboy-Prime punching a hole in reality. That's just laughable. But Cassandra Cain was such a good goddamned character, from the time she was introduced in No Man's Land. And they just ruined her.
He did a retcon. Call a spade a spade. He just did one that people like.
I'm fine with calling it a retcon, I was just specifying it's the kind I usually have the most problem with: "It was a deluded plant spirit that thought it was Alec! But it wasn't him."
Okay, so that's an example of a good retcon.
What are some other good ones?
What are some other good ones?
In comics? I think Black Canary (Dinah Lance, not her mother) used to have to use a weird device to do the canary cry. And now she doesn't. The original makes more sense, but I thought the gadget thingy was weird. I like the current version better.
I'm not too familiar with the original origins of Spider-Woman, but Bendis's Spider-Woman: Origin story was really good and enjoyable, and I liked it even though according to Wikipedia various things were changed.
I love Batman Year One. That's not entirely a retcon, except for Catwoman's story.
Oh, David Mack had some great bits about the origins of Kingpin in Parts of a Hole, but I don't know whether they were retconny or not. They didn't seem to entirely match up with what Wikipedia had.
That's not entirely a retcon, except for Catwoman's story.
Which they've since retconned.
I'm not too familiar with the original origins of Spider-Woman, but Bendis's Spider-Woman: Origin story was really good and enjoyable, and I liked it even though according to Wikipedia various things were changed.
It's okay. Lacking the SERIOUSLY MADE OF AWESOME CRACKTASTICNESS of the original, though. Oh, Mark Gruenwald, why did you have to die young?
I actually liked John Byrne's retcon of Superman's origin post-Crisis in Man of Steel, what with the still-living Kents and more reasonable powers and evil billionaire Lex Luthor and and no other surviving Kryptonians like Krypto the super-dog or Streaky the super-cat or Puddles the super-hamster and so forth. Of course, virtually every good change he made has since been undone by various other DC writers.