Don't know much about history: Devin Grayson talks to The Pulse about "Batman/Joker: Switch," then ends up wading into murky waters that surely will teem with enraged fanboys once they smell blood.

In response to a question about why continuity is sometimes ignored and disregarded, Devin says: "... I don’t think the occasional misalignment of continuity is necessarily a bad thing. Say one writer has a really stupid idea. Should we all have to follow it in six different books that you’ll never read all together again anyway? Or say a writer has a brilliant idea. Can’t he or she shape it and take the credit for it without twelve others writers pouncing on it and turning it into their own thing, maybe to the detriment of the original idea? Let me write what I want to write, let them write what they want to write, and that way there will always be something for everyone to read."

She backs up her position with some surprisingly insightful posts Mark Waid had culled from myriad message boards about "continuity" as it applies to myth and folklore. (I guess the legends are true: Forums can contain meaningful exchanges of ideas.)

"Greek myth had more than two thousand years of retcons," one of the posters comments. Others cite the King Arthur legends, as well as more recent literary reinterpretations of myth.

Brace yourselves for irrational backlash from Comicon posters.