User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/The guys at Marvel show their true colors/@comment-5473242-20130508201747/@comment-3317214-20130510021428

Yeah, I'm (by extension) talking about DC stuff from several reboots ago as well.

With that example you provided, the story still exists. In terms of current continuity, or the previous continuity, yeah it never happened. But the story still happened. It isn't invalidated by it's events not having any effect on what's happening now in comics, or what happened after any reboot that followed that story.

The story is still there, and if it's a good one, then it's definitely worthy of reading. Of course it's useless to read a bad comic. However, bad comics that fit into the current continuity, do provide further insight into a story, and taking away that continuity just leaves you with a bad comic that you can ignore. But a good comic, should always be good, no matter how it fits into continuity.