Morrison's Multiversity

[Tron Bonne]

Don't you answer your own question? If they said there's more, there's more, just that 52 are mapped, I guess.

 

[ask21771]

Don't you answer your own question? If they said there's more, there's more, just that 52 are mapped, I guess.

but the map only talks about 52

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

There are only 52 worlds.

By known he literally means all the worlds that are known, 7 will be left unexplored (for DC to use at a later date) as well as the opposite number to Wonderworld (which I think should just be Mageddon).

 

[Lencho01]

Grant Morrison Says "The Multiversity" is a "Culmination" of His DC Comics Work

 

[Dr. Thanos]

I'll read anything Morrison writes. And when they let Grant shake things up, he does a killer job (Final Crisis questionable), and thew way he's been describing this, it sounds like it will be one of best works yet (which is saying a lot). Very excited.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Well, let's be real for a moment, they can say there's only 52 worlds, but there's not a thing in the world stopping anyone from creating more. It's just like how they said there was no multiverse Post-Crisis, yet we were still getting Elseworld stories. The real answer to it all is to just not worry about it. There's 52 worlds now, but a few years from now, there will probably be more, because truthfully, there's an infinite amount of worlds at the beckon of what writer's imagination.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

The whole point of Multiversity is to actually establish worlds with their own history and unique identity, because usually alternate Earths are just "ZOMG luk at da ebin evil Sooperman end Battmayn!!"

Multiversity is going to provide a structure to the Multiverse. Elseworlds can be attributed to Hypertime.

Now all of this can be erased by another writer, but so can every story.

 

[Tron Bonne]

That doesn't really matter to what I'm saying. It doesn't matter if we have 52 earths now or not. It doesn't matter how many alternate Earths you want to put a number on. It can be erased, as you said, or expanded, or ignored, etc. There's no point stressing about that kind of stuff. It's all in flux. The only stopping thing stopping there from being a trillion earths is editors and writers, but editors and writers come and go. So, you know, who cares? 52 Earth, 52,000,000,000,000,000,000 Earths. Whatever.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

But that's the same with every story.

Should they just stop all cape comics?

 

[ask21771]

I don't want a fight because of me

 

[Tron Bonne]

But that's the same with every story.

Should they just stop all cape comics?

Huh, what? Where in any of what I posted did I say anything remotely about them stopping superhero comics? Not even in the same universe as what I'm saying. I really have no idea how "Don't stress about how many alternate worlds there are, because they can make as many as they want" could translate to "They should stop superhero stories".

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

You said "only 52 worlds, but there's not a thing in the world stopping anyone from creating more."

Which is true. But change '52 worlds' to anything about any character and you end up with the same principle. Superman can be the last Kryptonian, until someone writes more. Wonder Woman can be an Amazon, until she is turned into a weird demigod thing.

If this story is redundant because of a hypothetical future story, then all of them are. All that matters to this story is that there is only 52 worlds in the Orrery.

 

[dru-zod2501]

that beautiful Multiversity map! any thoughts?

 

[Tron Bonne]

You said "only 52 worlds, but there's not a thing in the world stopping anyone from creating more."

Which is true. But change '52 worlds' to anything about any character and you end up with the same principle. Superman can be the last Kryptonian, until someone writes more. Wonder Woman can be an Amazon, until she is turned into a weird demigod thing.

If this story is redundant because of a hypothetical future story, then all of them are. All that matters to this story is that there is only 52 worlds in the Orrery.

Man, I'm really lost as to where you're taking this. I'm not sure how you got any of this from my comments. Dude was asking about about why they mentioned more Earths than the 52 or something, and I was saying not to worry about it anyway, because the multiverse can always expand at a writer's notice. There's no argument here about redundancy or stopping superhero comics, just me saying not to sweat the stuff that doesn't really matter.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

He misinterpreted some words, which I explained.

Then you brought in some hypothetical, future, canon altering story. Which is an unconstructive, worthless point.

Bringing up that this story of the Multiverse may not matter in future because a story that does not yet exist may negate it can be applied to every franchise story. As of Infinite Crisis, there are 52 worlds. This is the story of those worlds. That is all that matters.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I find it neither nonconstructive nor worthless to the point, but you took such a radical and inaccurate view of what I said (I'm still not sure exactly how you're taking anything I'm saying as negating anything or redundancy), that we're on two totally different wave lengths.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Okay. I'm going to take your exact words, and show you what I mean by maintaining the context, but changing the subject:

Well, let's be real for a moment, they can say Terry McGinnis is canon, but there's not a thing in the world stopping anyone from creating another future. It's just like how they said there was The Dark Knight Returns before, yet we were still getting Damian Wayne as Batman stories. The real answer to it all is to just not worry about it. There's Terry McGinnis as the future now, but a few years from now, there will probably be a different one, because truthfully, there's an infinite amount of futures at the beckon of what writer's imagination.

All of this is fine, but it's all useless to someone who wants to know about Terry McGinnis' status and how the narrative for his story worked.

 

[ask21771]

Will you two stop seriously why don't one of you talk to the guys at dc and find out

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Because we already know there are 52 worlds.

Anyway, why don't you try and contact Grant Morrison/ DC Editorial?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Okay. I'm going to take your exact words, and show you what I mean by maintaining the context, but changing the subject:



All of this is fine, but it's all useless to someone who wants to know about Terry McGinnis' status and how the narrative for his story worked.

I don't feel like that example works, but okay. I kind of get what you mean, but I still think you looked at what I said the wrong way.

Will you two stop seriously why don't one of you talk to the guys at dc and find out

Yeah, I'll ask Didio when I see him for lunch tomorrow.

 

[ask21771]

I don't feel like that example works, but okay. I kind of get what you mean, but I still think you looked at what I said the wrong way.



Yeah, I'll ask Didio when I see him for lunch tomorrow.

there's this thing called a social network heard of it?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yeah, man I've seen that film. It's good.

But seriously, don't worry about us arguing. It happens, man, nobody is taking anything personally.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

there's this thing called a social network heard of it?

Why are you sarcastically giving people advice on how to contact people on your behalf? Clearly, you can do it yourself.

 

[ask21771]

http://www.newsarama.com/21763-the-prismatic-age-of-dc-comics-multiverse-crises-timelines.html

You think this Makes an infinite dc multiverse more likely as well as constant crisis level events

 

[Tron Bonne]

Well, as I said earlier, I think there's always an infinite multiverse. As long as there are writer's who do alternate takes on characters.