The Official '52' Thread

[batnkevlar]

I actually liked the ending... it was really epic, I liked it...

and I liked how they explained what changed each of the 52 other worlds... which means there's 53 all together...

 

[Darthphere]

Awww, Mr. Mind.

I'll pick it up, if only to see how the hell they're going to tackle Wonder Woman's origin and to whine endlessly like a btch when it doesn't conform to Perez's take.

Indeed.

 

[The Question]

You know, I must say, I strongly disliked Mr. Mind's evolved form. He was just too cheesy and overdone. They seemed to try and make him look scary, but went so overboard with it that he looked ridiculous. And I still don't understand how eating time/space is the natural extension of being able to latch onto and overide a creature's central nervous system.

 

[Sebastos]

I so picking up the Booster Gold series, can't wait for that.

 

[WompuM]

Interesting that Monarch is from Earth 3 according to that cover.

 

[Sebastos]

Yeah I found that interesting too.

 

[SonOfCthulhu]

Interesting that Monarch is from Earth 3 according to that cover.

I thought that was Captain Atom in the armor?

 

[WompuM]

Potato potato.

 

[WompuM]

So who is more powerful, Mr. Mind or Anti-Monitor?

 

[cerealkiller182]

Wait, just realized something. What the hell did Booster do with Steel's rocket?

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

the new question sucks!!!!!!!!!

 

[WompuM]

That might have been back in the issue when he reveals himself to be supernova and uses all that tech to fight "skeets"

 

[BrianWilly]

You know, I must say, I strongly disliked Mr. Mind's evolved form. He was just too cheesy and overdone. They seemed to try and make him look scary, but went so overboard with it that he looked ridiculous. And I still don't understand how eating time/space is the natural extension of being able to latch onto and overide a creature's central nervous system.

Sivana bombarded him with artificial time, if I recall correctly. It's not like he evolved naturally into that.

Interesting that Monarch is from Earth 3 according to that cover.

I...don't think those numbers are showing what Earth those people are from. I mean, Guy Gardner's not from Earth-8, obviously.

 

[trustyside-kick]

One thing I liked about Week 52 was how when the world's that were originally copies of Earth 1 began to change. We saw a world for Kingdom Come, Charlton's characters, Wildcats, Earth 2, etc.

 

[The Question]

Sivana bombarded him with artificial time, if I recall correctly. It's not like he evolved naturally into that.

Ah. Makes about as much sense as artificial time itself. None, that is. But hey, they can't win 'em all.

 

[WompuM]

I think they defiantly coincide with which Earth's they are from. After all, it said it IC that Kye Rayner was from Earth 8, along with Jason Rausch. And the cards match there people and numbers. For example, the obvious Earth-2 Robin. The Earth 4 Question. And doesn't Monarch seem like and Earth 3 version of Capt. Atom, similar to the way that Owlman is the Earth 3 version of Batman?

But then again, it's just a cover.

 

[BrianWilly]

But then why is there a Superman on Earth-5 when Earth-5 is supposed to be the Fawcett universe? And if Guy Gardner is the Green Lantern from Earth-8 then how is Kyle Rayner the Green Lantern from Earth-8? And none of the Flashes are from the Question's Charltonverse.

There are more discrepancies than there are synchronizations.

 

[WompuM]

But we don't yet know the contents of these new Earths, such as the the idea of a Superman being on Earth 5, but we DO know that there is a male question on Earth 4. And we DO know that that version of Robin and Batman are from Earth 2.
So here's the scoop. I know for a fact that some of those card's numbers coincide with the charaters respected Earth #. For all you know there is a superman on Earth 5 and that Guy Gardner is from Earth 8. I think showing the character on a card with a number coinciding with its respected Earth number is the point of the whole God damn cover.
All I said was that I found it interesting that Monarch was from Earth 3.

 

[Assassin]

Loved the last issue.

Epic indeed

 

[BrianWilly]

Doesn't make sense. The whole point of the Charlton and Fawcett comics universes is that traditional DC characters like Superman and Flash don't exist there.

In fact, we know that Guy Gardner is from Earth-1, not Earth-8, because he was already appearing in silver age stories pre-Crisis, which all took place on Earth-1. And Sinestro from Earth-7?? Sinestro needs to be from the exact same universe that Hal Jordan is from, Earth-1, because the Guardians and GL Corps do not exist in any other universe.

Like I said, more discrepancies than synchronizations.

 

[WompuM]

It had all the effects and feels of the original Crisis in just a few pages

 

[WompuM]

Except that it has been said that Kyle Rayner (you know, that new Green Lantern guy) is from Earth 8. And we don't know for sure that in this megaverse that Superman does not exsist on Earth 5 or not. Your argument is thin but there is no denying the symbolism of the cover is having the card numbers coincide with the Earth number.

 

[Fledermaus]

Isn't Breach the 'alternate universe' Captain Atom?

 

[BrianWilly]

Except that it has been said that Kyle Rayner (you know, that new Green Lantern guy) is from Earth 8. And we don't know for sure that in this megaverse that Superman does not exsist on Earth 5 or not. Your argument is thin but there is no denying the symbolism of the cover is having the card numbers coincide with the Earth number.

Um, you're looking at a total of THREE NUMBERS out of thirteen and claiming that they set a precedence that the other ten don't. Heck, it might be only two numbers, considering we don't know which Batman that is. Nearly every other number on that page contradicts the rules that you've set in ways that I've already explained so, frankly, it looks to me like there's a lot denying the "symbolism of the cover."

We don't know for sure whether Superman exists on Earth 5...except that you're claiming you know for sure.

Kyle Rayner is from Earth-8, but he could not have been a member of the Green Lantern Corps in that universe. Most likely he was called Ion there or another GL equivalent like Alan Scott and the female Green Lantern from the tangent universe. Oa is the one planet that only exists in one universe; the Oan called Krona looked back into the beginning of time and that was what shattered the universe into the multiverse in the first place. That's part of its history right back to the silver age. Sinestro or Hal Jordan or Guy Gardner might exist in other universes other than Earth-1 but they could not be members of the Green Lantern Corps there, which they obviously are depicted as on the cover.

Morever, Geoff Johns has officially stated that Earth-8 is home to "all characters created after Crisis on Infinite Earths." Guy Gardner, as I've already said, was created before then.

Christ, I love being so right.

 

[batnkevlar]

Yeah, i agree with BrianWilly...