From 2012 to 2022, disCONTINUITY was been my dedicated blog space. In 2022, it was officially retired as an archive of my old thoughts. New stuff (along with a change-log) is now contained right here within this new blog attached to the main Batman Chronology Project website.
Please note that all disCONTINIUTY links are permanently dead, although I do still have all entries in my personal archive. To access the public disCONTINIUTY archive, click on the following link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220629123943/https://therealbatmanchronologyproject.com/blog/
Thank you to the real life superheroes at the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine for keeping a history of my thoughts and rants. Here is a list of some of my personal favorite old blog entries from disCONTINUITY from yesteryear:
—Dead Links (to the Past) (2012)
—(My Take on) The State of Superhero Comic Criticism (2012)
—The Art of Collaborative Storytelling (2012)
—Superhero Socialism (2012)
—Nexus on The Longbox Project (2014)
—On Batman Eternal #11 and Feminism in Superhero Comics (2014)
—Comic Apocrypha: Liefeld & Platt’s Prophet (2015)
—The True History of the Multiverse and the Metaphysical Laws of Grant Morrison’s Psychedelic Hyperreality (2015)
—Mechanical Reproduction Beyond the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2015)
—The Nomenclature of Comic Book Eras (2015)
—Harvey v Fairbairn: Color of Justice (2016)
—Continuity Matters! (2016)
—Superhero Socialism: The History of Anarky (2017)
—A Brief Breakdown of the Bygone Batman of Earth-B (2017)
—The Hole in Things: A History of Simon Hurt (2017)
—Mommy Made of Nails: A History of Professor Pyg (2018)
—How the Doomsday Clock Ticks: Time & Continuity at the Midpoint (2018)
—The Influence of Quantum Mechanics and Borges’ Metaphysics on Superhero Comics (2019)
—The Prismatic Age: Batman as a Reflection of Outdated Ideas (2019)
—A List: Batman’s Sex Life (2020)
—Ableist Language in Superhero Comics (2020)
—Infinite Frontier: The Physics and Metaphysics of the Omniverse and Beyond (2021)
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Hi, so how can we access discontinuity, now ?
The new blog is under the menu hyperlink “Blog” and the old stuff is under “Archive”. I do see that there is a cache error though, and it might be unable to load on Chrome. Working on Safari and other browsers atm, but I’ll look into the matter.
As a comment very pertinent to “Infinite Frontier: The Physics and Metaphysics of the Omniverse and Beyond (2021),” I’m highlighting an excellent entry from Grant Morrison’s Substack blog (Xanaduum) on 2/8/2023, entitled “The Multiversity Annotations Pt 10.” In this entry, Morrison says, “My American superhero work became an exploration of a geography – both physical, as an ongoing paper continuum we can hold in our hands, and conceptual, in the form of the ever-shifting DC universe with its cities, countries and planets. So it was with Animal Man where I interacted with the characters, or Seven Soldiers where characters interacted directly with readers, on to Ultra Comics, the final application of those explorations into the DC universe, where the comic and the audience combine to become our real world’s first bona fide superhero! A superhero made of ink and paper and staples but a ‘real’ superhuman being nonetheless. One we can touch and interact with and most importantly become. [. . .] The lead character here ‘is’ literally Ultra Comics in a buddy team-up with his readers. The physical comic book you hold in your hands is the hero! This is the only way a real superhero can appear in our world – on a flat page or screen. What makes Ultra Comics different is the way the comic interacts with the individual reader. By reading the book, we become part of a network of minds across time and space, readers in other times and places concentrating their attention on these words and images. Ultra Comics allows its readers to become a real superhero in the real world – a living part of a time-and-space-spanning Multi-Mind! [. . .] Ultra Comics Lives! Every time you go back for a re-read, he will live again. There are those of you who will read these notes and decide to check out the comic again as a result. You too will join the Multi-Mind! Ultra Comics is reborn to go through it all again every time you dare to a re-read – if you do return to his story, he will seem to change each time, as you yourself grow older and wiser.”