Crisis Counseling - 11/14/05
New Crisis Counseling up at DC.The thing that really stands out as odd this time around, is Earth-2 Superman's explanation of the current DCU. He claims that it's based off of Earth-1, except joyless and otherwise inferior to his Earth.
First, as I recall, the DCU is no longer set in the remnants of Earth-1. Yes, the immediate post-Crisis DCU was the 4 remaining Earths compressed into Earth-1, but Zero Hour supposedly fixed all of that. All of these characters should now exists in some new universe spawned from that bit of house-cleaning.
Second, I don't really see the current DCU as joyless. Sure, it's not the happy-go-lucky romp of innocence that was the Golden Age, or the campy and, at times, restrospectively creepy (think Batman and Robin, people) ball of goofiness that was the Silver Age, but is anything, really? Those eras died because they needed to. And while the current DCU is certainly darker than its predecessors, it's certainly not joyless.
Anyway, that's all. Cya.
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posted by Arturius Boomaeus @ 11/14/2005 01:32:00 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, I got that feeling about the JLI. Also looks like the JSA is going old school with Wonder Woman, Batman, and Earth-2 Supes in the next couple of months. Not sure how they're working that out, though, what with Batman and Wonder Woman rumored to leaving the hero biz for a while.
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