Thread:Tupka217/@comment-6369172-20150919214210/@comment-6369172-20150927094900

Nobody, least of all me, is proposing to add another parallel continuity to accommodate the carelessness of prior Blackhawk editors. The point of the example is as an object lesson against that kind of expedience-based thinking. Same (in reverse) with the K.E. confusion. If it's already established that a whole lot of Q.U. characters had parallel-earth counterparts, then why is it okay to single out one Q.U. character to lack them? If the Earth-S Kid Eternity is "one rare case of a retroactive merger actually making sense" then that carries the implicit acknowledgement that the rest of the time they do not make sense.

The "rule" itself might not be a great rule, but creating exceptions to it, on an opportunistic basis, is worse.