I’m kind of fascinated by the idea that All-Star Western is apparently going to be tightly connected to contemporary DCU continuity. It’s nothing new, of course; not only did Jonah Hex show up in The Return of Bruce Wayne, but he’d previously teamed up with Superman, gotten himself involved with the Crisis on Infinite Earths and even appeared in the History of The DC Universe series by Wolfman and Perez. But between this and Paul Cornell’s various comments to the effect of Demon Knights, his “The Demon in Ye Olde Times” book, would share certain characters/threads with Peter Milligan’s Justice League Dark series, I’m wondering whether there’s going to be a much greater sense of “shared universe” in all of the New 52 books than we’d previously thought: Will we get an updated version of the random cameos that characterized the early Marvel comics? Even if DC stays away from event books for the first few months, as they’ve promised, are readers going to slowly be introduced to the idea of reading multiple books for the full story nonetheless?

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