Actually it does. I was saying that asking for continuity from a publisher that has no respect for the continuity of its own stories is a pointless enterprise. If the unbreakable lasso needs to be broken, it will be broken.
Um, no, I don’t think that’s true at all, outside the community of comic fans.
Most DC and Marvel characters never get a movie. I’ll spot you the irrelevance of Superman and Spidermans’ comics’ quality, but not many others. The only thing they have to attract moviemakers’ attention is their quality.
I love graphic novels. Love, love, love them. But I think this is only partially true.
While I think The Dark Knight Returns would be hacked to death if attempted in any other medium, there are times when grahic novels are not the best way to go.
Anne Rice’s novel The Tale of the Body Theif, the 4th of the Vampire Chronicles, was made into a graphic novel and did not compare well to the written book.
I think Askia meant that comics are the superior medium for superhero stories.
That’s a pretty defensible statement. It’s hard to pull off the powers and costumes of full-fledged superheroics and not look pretty damn goofy, let alone actually convincing, although animation works pretty well too. It’s also not surprising. Superheroes and comics evolved together. The genre evolved to fit the medium and aspects of the medium no doubt developed to serve that specific genre. When you turn a comic book story into a movie, you either have to abandon some defining traits of character and plot, or try to shoehorn stuff that just doesn’t work as well outside of comics.
Oh, yeah? Then how do you explain the Ghostrider movie?
Red Son is explicitly outside of DC continuity. That’s the point of it being an Elseworlds. It’s an Elseworlds because DC didn’t want Elseworlds titles messing up regular DC continuity.
In other words, it’s an Elseworlds because DC had respect for the continuity of its own stories.
In the bigger picture, all of the comics publishers have changed their continuities once they’ve been publishing long enough. This is not surprising – even series of novels, and series of movies, have continuity issues. Just human nature to tinker, maybe.
It’s surely beside the point for Red Son which isn’t in Wonder Woman’s continuity, nor even is a Wonder Woman story. And, as has been cited several times in this thread, the golden lasso isn’t “unbreakable” it is only “supposedly unbreakable”, since it has been broken several times. The bit outside of WW continuity is the effect the breaking had on WW in Red Son.