Thread:The Many-Angled One/@comment-32317643-20170630214049/@comment-32317643-20170706021336

Hello Annabelle, I've had a lot of time to think and wonder why you think an obvious inaccuracy is accurate, but it occurred to me that you don't fully understand how Zarathos was retconned. Well good news, I'm gonna do just that.

Now, in the original origin for Johnny Blaze, he sells his soul to the devil to save his stepfather from cancer. His cancer is cured but he dies anyway. The devil comes to take Johnny to hell, but he is saved by the love of his girlfriend Roxanne Simpson. Johnny doesn't get off scot free though, as he is bound to the soul devouring demon Zarathos. Now in the 2006 storyline, issue 18, this story is slightly changed. Johnny still sells his soul and his stepfather still dies. Roxanne discovers what Johnny had done and prayed to god that he be spared. Her prayers were answered, but not by god. It was the archangel Zadkiel who bound Johnny to one of god's spirits of vengeance saving Johnny as the devil cannot force an angel to hell. Now, not only does this retcon Johnny's origin, it retcons Zarathos' exsistence entirely, because he was never bound to Johnny. That's why that secret wars handbook is inaccurate. It that Adam separated Johnny from Zarathos and bonding him to Alejandra, but that's not possible. Because of the 2006 retcon Johnny was never bound to Zarathos, he was bound to a spirit of vengeance, and Zarathos is not a spirit of vengeance. So how can Alejandra be bonded to something that never happened? She can't be. She's bound to the same spirit of vengeance that Johnny is currently. I hope I've cleared things up for you.