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tombrevoortsucks-deactivated201 asked: Did he ever say he disregarded those Swamp Thing stories anywhere? Because I have to imagine a powerful earth elemental who could travel to hell could probably whip up a human simulacrum without realizing it. Doesn't take a stretch to go there. But even conceding the point on one or two stories, you completely ignore how much DC history he wove into his run as is your wont I suppose.

brevoortformspring:

Yes, he overtly stated in interviews at the time that this is what he had done. he was very forthright about it.

And point me at all of this DC history that he used. Yes, he guest-stared characters and used elements from across the DC Universe, but no more or less so than anybody else—and never in a manner that revolved around continuity.

Continuity should be a foundation garment, not a strait–jacket.

Use it as a library of good ideas from which to build a story, not a list of reasons that you CAN’T do a story.  

Look at how much of comics history has been ignored for the purpose of a good story.  Bucky was jokingly referred to as the one of only two characters at Marvel you can’t bring back from the dead (the other being Uncle Ben)…until they did.

If we followed the rule that once it’s in a comic, it can never be changed, Superman would only be able to jump an eighth of a mile, and Sue Storm would be the weakest member of the Fantastic Four.