DC's new all-story encompassing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询ꦬ:new universe they're calling the Omniverse debuted in January's and readers will be getting a much closer look at it in March 2's . But a week earlier on Tuesday, February 23 it is already in expansion mode with a new corner of the DCU within the Omniverse called the Linearverse.
What is the Linearverse? We explain the background of it here and get so꧙me comments from Dan Jurgens, one of the co-writers of the story it's debuting in, .
But for a more straightforward expla🐻nation of the Linearverse, you've come to the right place.
DC readers might want to duck out now if you're planning on reading Generations: Forged #1 and want to wait.
[That's a spoiler warning, FYI.]
S🔜o what is the DC Linearverse? First, you have to understand what th🔥e DC Omniverse is.
Because DC comic book history began in 1938 with the debut of Superman in , official DC Universe canonical history - what comic book readers refer to as continuity - has bee🎀n officially rewritten over and over again to explain how superheroes like Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman that have published adv♚entures dated to real-world events like World War II can still be active in new adventures that take place in the here and now.
The popularity of superhero comic books waned in the post-World War II years and characters like the Flash, Green Lantern, ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚand Hawkman disappeared while Superman and Batman endured.
A superhero revival in the '60s caused DC to bring back the Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkman, and others but in new, updated versions unr🍃elated to the previous ones.
But 'The Flash of Two Worlds' established the premise the previous versions of the characters existed on a second Earth, Earth-Two.
Earth-Two eventually became the home of other versions of classic characters that aged and whose lives moved on more than their mainline counterparts, like a gray-templed ♔Superman who was married to Lois Lane decades before they were married in thܫe main DC line, and a much more grown-up Robin, who by the '60s was still in his mid-teens 40 years after his debut in the core Batman titles.
Years of stories taking place in different eras and the expansion of Multiverse to include more Earths including worlds DC acquired from other comic book publishers like (who you know as Shazam) resulted🦩 in DC's first attempt to try to juxtapose all their stories into a single, cohesi𓂃ve timeline.
1985's iconic and very meta (recently loosely adapted to a DC sup𓄧erhero CW crossover) attempted to do away with the Multiverse, but the gravity of trying to turn what was then 50 years of stories into a 10-year timeline resulted in DC having to publish recurring maintenance storylines (most with the word 'Crisis' in the title ) to try to fix t꧑he logical inconsistencies Crisis introduced, but to no avail.
In 2011 DC tried again more definitively with the f🍌ull reboot ',' which again attempted to streamline all DC history in a manageable timeline. But again the weight of its full history and the fact that many of its editors and writers revered much of the history that was done away with resulted in the Multiverse concept slowly making a return throughout the '10s.
Apparently recognizing the folly of trying to defeat the passing of time, DC's new approach is to stop trying to make it all make sense and to simply acknowledge it ALL happened. All timelines and multiverses and alternate realities and futures exist in an Omniverse.
While the current iterations of the classic DC heroes like Batman and Superman exist in an approximation of real/current-time, they're also meta-aware of the Omniverse's existence and somewhat aware that their own lives, memories, and history are part of an intricate tapestry and patchwork of time and reality.
And because it's still so new, we don't know yet how much DC will try to explain how it fits together narratively, or if they'll even try at all.
This brings us to the newest wrinkle (and thanks for bearing with us), the Linearverse.
A separate reality within the brand-new Omniverse, this way of looking at DC's history takes a much simpler approach DC never triဣed in earnest ... until now.
In the Linearverse, characters simply live longer lives than people who don't live in the Linearverse, and this is true for aliens from other worlds like Superman, mythological characters like Wonder Woman, and normal human beings like Batman.
So the same Bruce Wayne whose parents were killed in Crime Alley in the late '20s or early '30s and first took to the streets of Gotham City as a vigilante in 1939 is the same guy still fighting crime in 2021.
Technology advanced, fashion changed, world events like wars and presidential terms passed normally in realtime, but the characters only aged a few years and lived through it and experienced and remember it all.
Like DC's past attempts to make linear of its history, it's not a perfect solution. The aforementioned Barry Allen from 1956 (who is the current Flash) ﷺfirst took the name as an homage to '40s Jay Garrick, who in Allen's world was a comic book character and not a real person.
In the Linearverse, Barry Allen would have to be aware that Jay Garrick really existed when he took the name the Flash because of course, Jay Garrick ℱhad adventures with the same Superman ꧋Barry did.
And the events like the original Crisis on Infinite Earths wouldn't make sense at all in a reality where there isn't a Multiverse.
As Jurgens explains to Newsarama, the Linearverse is its own unique playground for now. DC's regular ongoing series starring Superman, Batman, the Justice League, Green Lantern, and more will still exist in the greater Omniverse where time theoretically passes normally for the characters despite the fact it doesn't really pass for readers at all.
The Linearverse seems to exist as a storytelling option, to tell specific tales that require or benefit from the premise (for example) the current very serious Batman actually had and remembers his wackier, kid-friendlier science fiction-inspired adventures from the '50s, or that Superman and Batman have been friends for nearly 80 years.
Asℱ of now, DC has not announced any plans for more stories set in the Linearverse, but it is a new club in the bag for writers with a story to tell.
A few of the stories we mention are on Newsarama's list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best DC stories of all time.
