Thread:BruceGrubb/@comment-1038387-20171026131204/@comment-3361105-20171026210331

BruceGrubb wrote: What about DC themselves still putting out CoIEAE?

Not to be a downer, but if I have learned anything about DC as a publisher rather than as a creative  entity, it is that they will put out the same book as many times as people are willing to buy it, and there doesn't have to be new content inside it for it to be a "new edition" - they'll slap some marginally different artwork on it and call it new.

When it comes to encyclopedias like these, my sense is that they have about the same continuity value as the novelizations of major DC events by Greg Cox - which is to say, it might make sense, and it might be a book, but it's not the bible by which writers at DC are informing their work. Every aspect of the assignment of universe designations is an ad hoc application of a concept that didn't really exist at the time the stories they're applied to were written.