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* Okay, how on Earth does the Vertigo-verse (''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Sandman]]'' + Spinoffs, ''[[
** You mean the John Constantine that first appeared (no, seriously) in an issue of ''Crisis on Infinite Earths?''
*** a) He first appeared in ''Swamp Thing'' #37, one month earlier -- and ''Swamp Thing'' was running a story at the time that was a tie-in to ''Crisis.'' b) Doesn't really answer my question. Besides this one-time thing, they don't really link up over huge events after that.
** Blame Dream. He's the incarnation of stories, and thus, is the linchpin between the two publications. Superman doesn't age, but Constantine does, and yet they occupy the same universe with the same timeline? While this shouldn't be possible, the story itself allows for it because of Dream, who's existed longer than physics.
** Short answer: it doesn't. The ''Vertigo'' titles have stopped being in-continuity with the DCU. Hell, some of them have stopped being in-continuity with ''each other''. (As for the same characters appearing in both places... well, its DC comics, they have a multiverse and Elseworlds and such things.) See the [[Just Bugs Me]] page for the DCU for more discussion on that.
*** Ha! Sorry to burst your bubble, but the real answer is this. There are some Vertigo titles that ARE NOT canon, and there are ones which are ([[
** Well, Vertigo and DC might be getting united with [[Brightest Day]]. So far, Death of the Endless dropped by to chat with Lex, and now Alec Holland has been revealed as a very important character.
** Constantine showed up on the last page of Brightest Day 24. It looks like Vertigo is canon again.
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