GEEK ATTACK! The “You Need to Read the comics” Bullcrap argument!

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The 

“You Need to Read the comics” 

Bullshit argument! 

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Accept when people say
"You have to read the comics"
It gives the incorrect impression that there is one overall shared official storyline!
But there isn’t!
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There is are different versions,
Retold a huge number of times in a large variety of ways,
By decades of different writers.
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So, when some self-appointed Comics Inquisition General rants on about how
“Film X” has committed some terrible form of comic book blasphemy by daring to deviate from the official holy writ!
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Feel free to ask them?
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Which version?
Which Writer?
Which Print Run?
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If the best they can answer is,
“Errr, Well the official one of course!” “Your noob casual!”
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Then maybe you should press with,
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“Yes, I understand you meant an official one,”
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Then ask
“But, beg your pardon, your highness…”
“Which official one?”
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Marvel on 1 came out in October 1939
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The Marvel universe did NOT start with all those lovely Universe numbers, that you are all loving memorising.
That was a much later desperate attempt to clear up all the different version dependencies.
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That concept for alternative universes (as numbered) was not created until the 1980s for the Captain Britain Corps.
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By then, there is so much printed material that it is impossible to plug every hole.
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It was an attempt that failed to be totally successful!
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