Well, it's DC, so really reintroducing the Multiverse was only a matter of time. Apparently, come May, we'll be able to get a load of "Earth 2", and a few refugees from it will be dumped into normal DC continuity (conveniently, a bunch of books end right around that time frame).
DC's been posting character designs, and dropping hints about both the book "Earth 2" and "World's Finest", which they should really just call "Distaff Superman/Batman: See, WE DO LIKE WOMEN OK?!"
We're torn because DC already reverting to this usually means we're about to be stuck with yet another Crisis. On the other hand, the alternate world storytelling is almost always fun for a while, and unlike most of these books, DC has spent months setting these up in the "Huntress" miniseries and "Mr. Terrific". Check out a few of the character designs on the next slides.
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I’ve always been confused as to what was so hard/confusing about having alternate realities in comic books. It seems like a simple concept to me.
These designs look solid, I like Batman’s. I figured it would be Grayson but it’s been confirmed that it’s “a” Wayne. Gotta be Damien. Showing Nightwing’s influence with the escrima sticks was a nice touch. and obviously Robin/Huntress is Helena Wayne, Bruce’s daughter.
And just a random question: how did the Huntress series tie in? I haven’t read it but heard it was solid. Was that Huntress the Earth 2 Huntress or was that the Huntress from the “main” Earth. In which case now there are two Huntress(es) running around.
I haven’t been reading Huntress either, since I thought it was a leftover from the previous continuity. I understand the Earth 2 Huntress is introduced in the book.
And, yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s Damien under the cowl. Maybe on Earth 2, he won’t be a tiresomely obnoxious little snot.
Yeah, one can only hope haha.
isn’t ALL of the new 52 an alternate universe? plus, there’s zero continuity in the books now. even between each other. hell, Morrison had to in vent thirty years of back story just to write a flash forward superhero book.
so characters that we don’t really know yet and definitely don’t care about will be visited by counterparts we’ve never met so we don’t care about them either?
what a terrific editorial strategy. meanwhile marvel is having their two biggest and most established teams beat the tar out of each other all summer long.
as a dc fan from way back (and not so much anymore) i really wish they’d get their act together.
They actually have been establishing how the books are connected: for example, they’ve had book-to-book crossovers (Frankenstein and OMAC, Animal Man and Swamp Thing, etc.) They’re taking it slowly and trying to fully establish each individual book before dragging readers into crossovers, which I appreciate.
As for “Avengers Vs. X-Men”…I’ll read it, it’s what I’m paid to do, but Marvel’s phoning this one in.
Well, DC is kicking Marvel’s ass in sales at the moment. Their big relaunch has worked. It’s got a couple hiccups in continuity and quality but I think DC has taken it to a new level. I’m not sure Marvel really has any ideas on how to counter DC’s relaunch on the same scale. So they’re gonna do what they’ve been doing for the past ten years or so, a superficial crossover. It does seem to me they are just phoning this one in because they can’t think of anything else to do.
I walked away from both Marvel and DC for crap like this right before Siege and Final Crisis. Now I’m just getting Snyder’s Batman book and I was reading Uncanny X-Force but I jumped off that book after the end of The Dark Angel Saga because it felt like a logical jumping off point and I could use the extra cash in my pocket.
That and four bucks is a lot of money to demand for a twenty-page book.