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Tweak says, "BIG O! And ACTION!"

volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-05 16:54:00

Current music:	James joyce and sodomy " I wanna move to Earth 3"
Entry tags:	char: alexander luthor jr., char: johnny quick, char: lex luthor, char: lois lane, char: owlman, char: pariah/kell mossa, char: power ring, char: superwoman, char: ultraman, creator: george perez, creator: marv wolfman, publisher: dc comics, title: crisis on infinite earths

Bye , bye Earth 3...

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	cissie_king 2009-03-05 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	Same thing in practice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-03-05 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	That makes my brain all hurty... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cissie_king
2009-03-05 08:04 pm UTC (link)

Well, before Hypertime writers couldn't use parallel universes in DC stories. A universe where everybody is evil, a zombie, has a beard was almost impossible.

Some writers managed to pull it off from DCU Vertigo books where they didn't care about stupid limiting rules like that, or they showed a parallel universe but called it a "pocket universe" just so everyone could pretend it was something else; because for some reason a certain number of dumb fans had convinced themselves that the multiverse was a bad thing and that it was too complicated for their feeble minds and that's why it had to go away. Never mind that Marvel had a multiverse and nobody complained; probably not even the same fans who complained about DC but also read Marvel.

So, Mark Waid presented the concept of Hypertime to bring back the concept of multiverse without undoing Crisis on Infinite Earths. And that's how we got Grant Morrison's Earth 2 book and other things like the Superboy: Hypertension storyline. And then DC published Infinite Crisis and we all have to pretend that never happened and that the multiverse was back at last.

And that's the short version of why I should rule the universe and my death squads should ride across the land thinning the herd.

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	volksjager 2009-03-05 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	Superboy: Hypertension ? More info please :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cissie_king 2009-03-05 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	I don't remember much about it, but i remember liking it. It was about Superboy traveling through the multiverse to save... something. This page explains it better: http://www.geocities.com/hypertime2000/features/hypertension/index.html (Reply to this) (Parent)

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