The EU writers should be making these kind of comics, as far as I'm concerned. It's not as if they're unable; they've got the Infinities imprint for out-of-continuity storylines. And it's not like there's no precedence for it; DC and Marvel Comics have been churning out alternate non-canon storylines for decades. But the EU has to be different, doesn't it? Everything's got to be continuity, continuity, continuity!!! Canon, canon, canon!!!

God, what a stifling, stagnant franchise.