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Superhero continuities are constantly rebooted out of panic

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After decades of overlapping storylines, alternate dimensions, and resurrected characters, maintaining a coherent timeline becomes mathematically impossible. Publishers periodically trigger massive, universe-destroying cataclysms solely as an editorial clean slate, violently wiping out eighty years of convoluted baggage just so a new reader can finally understand issue number one.

Superhero continuities are constantly rebooted out of panic
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