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MOTA: He's going to introduce the idea of the Fantastic Three... well, a decade ago Tom DeFalco already did this idea, but clearly Waid doesn't want anyone to know that so he has to make a big deal about how continuity is wrong when in reality all he wants to do is do a Fantastic Three story without having it be compared to the one DeFalco did a decade ago, and to accomplish that he has to make people forget what DeFalco did and mock those that dare remember.
Ok, when has Waid ever bitched about continuity being wrong or tried to make people forget something that happened earlier or mocked people for remembering something? Waid has always been a "silver ageist" and "continuity whore." He's one of the biggest fanboy writers in the biz. He built his rep on Flash due to his intimate knowledge of the characters and their histories and personalities.

Short of Birthright, he's never attempted a severe continuity altering decision. We're talking about the man who was supposed to revamp and charge up DC's villains in the Underworld series and couldn't do it because he "realized that the characters were perfect like they were" (I'm paraphrasing again). Yeah, like Capt. Boomerang can't use at least a costume change. [yuh huh]

Let me say it again: He couldn't progress DC's villains and make them legitimate threats and menaces because he fell in love with the way they were. Does that sound like a man who tries to make people forget continuity?

Waid is not one of the writers who rail continuously against continuity. The fact that you attempt to use him to make your point is most ironic.