Another Fucking Earth.
Another Fucking Earth.
Oct 11There are hints aplenty in the Infinite Crisis hardcover that Earth-Two is coming back.
Maybe it’s the lack of coffee, or the lack of sleep, but I just can’t give a shit this morning. Try me in a few hours.
Of course it’s coming back – and I think it’s a bit of a big deal. A lot of the pre-crisis stuff just didn’t fit into the single universe set-up.
Now that Marvel, just today, tied their last outlier universe into everything else (namely JMS’s overhaul of the Squadron Supreme), we’ve come full circle.
Marvel core universe, hooks into most everything via Exiles, Exiles hooks into the Marvel Zombie universe, Marvel Zombies hook into the Ultimate universe, which is now tied into the SS overhaul.
Oh, and of course Exiles ties into the New Universe, and Marvel 2099. If they could just hop into the various Epic lines for awhile, I could die… not happy, just die.
Meanwhile, whomever came up with WildStorm’s fractal Bleed, must be somewhere yelling, “fuck!” and drinking heavily.
Is there a website somewhere that keeps track of all the crossovers and link ups – I’m sure by now, the only comics that don’t tie into everything else are Richie Rich and Hot Stuff (he ate coals like they were hot dogs – heeeehee.)
It’s the end of the day, I’ve had plenty of coffee, started with a full night’s sleep, and I still don’t give a shit.
Wasn’t Infinite Crisis supposed to clean up the multi-verse? So shocking DC’s editorial couldn’t leave well enough alone… 😛
okay, still no coffee, but 24 hours later…
it is a big deal. i’m giving more of a shit now (sorry hilton!).
i LIKE the two earth thing a lot. i think it’s way fun, and if something suddenly pops up with all those weird-ass earth-two characters on it (batman’s daughter the huntress, etc) AND they can somehow tie all this nonsense into the various bits of other nonsense that have been flowing through the DCU since during and after IC (two nightwings? the monitors? eh??), I will be impressed.
of course, then they’ll get geoff johns to write it and twelve people to pencil it and edit the shit out of it till it’s stillborn. oh well.
The DC multiverse just grew organically – Batman didn’t start out with Superman, new characters slapped in here and there. And there was a lot of room for playing around – what if Lois Lane had superpowers, etc.
Over time, that brought up the inevitable question of making it all fit together, which it can’t – so the simple answer was “different earth.”
That lead to cross-overs, and that lead to new earths to provide cool new stories – an earth where the JLA are all criminals, etc.
Then Marvel starts to get traction and a rivalry begins and at the center is the idea that Marvel has it’s continuity under control, boy isn’t DC just sloppy. This goes on long enough that DC finally pulls the Crisis to bring it all together and it ran sort of OK for years, but it couldn’t hold – especially since the idea of a multiverse was actually growing in popularity.
There’s a reason PowerGirl sits at the center of all this – it’s hard to stitch together so many crappy origins into one storyline.
Anyhow, like I said, here we are, full circle, and DC wants their multiverse back.
And I’d like to sign off by saying two words – Counter Earth.