Kontinuity Kop--Countdown #41

All right, now, what's all this then?



Kontinuity Kop here--I've heard we've got an infraction from one of last week's books.

What's the charge?


Countdown #41: last page of the main story.


Complaint: if this really is the "original" Legion of Superheroes, with Wildfire and Sensor Girl and Dawnstar, then why does Karate Kid refer to Luornu as "Triplicate Girl?" Val Armorr had joined the Legion AFTER one of her bodies was killed, and AFTER she had renamed herself Duo Damsel. So why would he refer to her as Triplicate Girl? He never knew her by that name! And even if he had, she had been Duo Damsel for a long long time by the point Sensor Girl showed up...


Defense: Karate Kid's memory was still somewhat addled by time travel/brainwashing from the "Lightning Saga."


Prosecution: Please. If you're going to do a story so dependent upon past continuity, couldn't the writers/editor have at least bothered to actually look something like this up? And before anyone makes the argument: if this Legion somehow has a different continuity than the "original" Legion, than what's the point?


Verdict: Guilty as charged. DC, if you're going do a storyline attempting to restore a past "deleted" continuity, you have the burden to actually get it right. And don't get me started over how Superman suddenly knows this Legion....DC needs to start actually editing their authors, and not just let them randomly "wiki" their continuity whenever they feel like it.


Sentence: 3 severe finger wags.