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I'm still not convinced that the things that CoIE supposedly "fixed" really needed fixing. Was it really that confusing that there was a parallel universe with evil counterparts of the main heroes, or one in which they showed up a few decades earlier than they did in Earth-1? If you don't want to acknowledge the existence of the Rainbow Batman, then don't.

It really is that simple... unless you're trying to fit everything into one grand, overarching continuity and really get obsessed with filing all the corners off the square pegs to get them to fit into the pre-drilled round holes that you've made, which seems to be where Wolfman and the other elevated fanboys were on this. I don't think it's an accident that the books in this retrospective that have aged the best are those that are done by individual creators like William Messner-Loebs and Howard Chaykin, or by people like Alan Moore who, even though he was working on company-owned characters, always made continuity his servant rather than his master.