Of "Comic-Book" Storytelling and Black Library

[Scribe]

BL's policy of "everything is canon and nothing is canon" is essentially a licence for authours to come up with their own interpretions

 

Indeed so, and is how we have 5 versions of certain Primarchs, leading to a far worse product than we could have had.

[RandyB]

 

 

BL's policy of "everything is canon and nothing is canon" is essentially a licence for authours to come up with their own interpretions

Indeed so, and is how we have 5 versions of certain Primarchs, leading to a far worse product than we could have had.

It also avoids the need for a story editor to keep the authors corralled. And it definitely thwarts the self-appointed loremasters among the readers and fans.

[b1soul]

Self-appointed loremasters can be thwarted regardless

 

I think the policy is fine for the universe at large, not so much for a series like the HH...they could've struck a better balance between flexibility and consistency

[Scribe]

Thwarted?

 

Not in this life, or the next. :p