Comments on: A Question Regarding Infinite Crisis #4 (Mild Spoilers)

By: Avi Green

Avi Green — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:53:27 +0000

Out of curiosity…

If the Atom/Ray Palmer hasn’t shown up yet, does anyone think he will before this miniseries is over?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:28:46 +0000

There are a few issues left in the series. Perhaps issue five will feature several DC characters applying for dual citizenship.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:27:36 +0000

Kal-L states that the current DCU Earth is based off of Earth-1. So if she was born on the post-Crisis DCU Earth, when the split was made, she’d be considered an Earth-1 type of person.

That said, I didn’t get the impression that they split the DCU Earth into Earth-1 and Earth-2 at the end of the issue. What I got out of it was they created Earth-2. So in the last pages of the issue, we’ve got DCU Earth (minus the Earth-2 elements) and Earth-2 — not Earth-1 and Earth-2.

By: methane

methane — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:22:49 +0000

The characters go wherever the writer wants them to go.

Earth 1 or Earth 2 characters only make sense to us readers. If you think inside the DCU it makes no sense. There always was one Earth since the beginning of time (which is where they went in the first chrisis), long before Earth was formed or humans evolved.

So where do these ‘Earth -1′/’Earth-2′ genes come from? Was there someplace on this Earth where some guy had his genes changed by a flashing meteorite and all his descendants got Earth 2 genes? Somewhere else a woman had a random mutation and all her descendants got Earth-X genes? We’d have a lot of people like Patricia, with a mixture of genes.

And all these mutations happened well after the creation of the universe. How were those linked to separate universes that never existed because of actions taken millions of years beforehand? It would be like saying our different blood types are linked to something that happened at the Big Bang. Really blood type A only belonged in one universe, B in another, and AB was never supposed to exist.

The whole gene thing struck me as similar to mitochlorines (or whatever they were called) from the Star Wars prequel, better left forgotten. If you wanted a scientific way of bringing back multiple Earths, you really needed to go back to the begining of time. Otherwise you needed to attribute it all to magic, and not things like genes.

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:16:40 +0000

No. no. no. The Freedom Fighters are from Earth-2 and moved to Earth-X to fight Nazis.

What Earth-X-anything? The “Earth-X characters” are all immigrants born on another planet.

By: farsider

farsider — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:36:46 +0000

There is a spoiler warning; it’s in the title of the post.

oops. sorry, scott.

By: Scipio

Scipio — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:05:22 +0000

I’d assume that the “Earth-1 gene” is recessive….

By: TayJK

TayJK — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:54:10 +0000

I think we are forgetting that DC has stated multiple times that continuity is not going to be changed coming out of this Crisis. At least not like it was coming out of Crisis on Infinite Earths. More like the little retcons you could get coming out of Zero Hour.

By: Andrew Burton

Andrew Burton — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:03:05 +0000

…or for that matter, what happened to Mike Dugan? I’m pretty sure his mother is from the current Earth too. Also, what about Courtney’s belt and rod, were those not from Earth-2?

By: H

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:20:18 +0000

I don’t know the answer, but it’s a fun question to toss around isn’t it? I missed multiple earths.