tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post109658298531214210..comments2023-05-30T10:15:40.341-04:00Comments on Comics Ate My Brain: Post-Crisis Crisis, Part 2Tom Bonduranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209820912557263080noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post-1096992357021493692004-10-05T12:05:00.000-04:002004-10-05T12:05:00.000-04:00Thanks! I vaguely remember something about the Ti...Thanks! I vaguely remember something about the Time Beacon in <EM>Crisis</EM> (or maybe the Superboy "pocket universe" story), but I am not much of a Legion scholar. (I guess the T.B. no longer exists in the post-<EM>Zero Hour</EM> Legion?)<br /><br />Still, I would like to keep the actual manipulation of time itself to a minimum. A big part of this exercise is trying to puzzle out what everything would have looked like to a post-multiverse observer. I don't want to take a position "outside of time," because that was the perspective of <EM>Zero Hour</EM>. <br /><br />In the big picture, the Legion's involvement isn't that critical to me, which is ironic because they could provide additional commentary on the Superman-as-icon subplot. They <EM>should</EM> be involved, since they're such a big part of DC history. However, on one level, I just wanted to have some fun with the reboots -- and if I ever get the time to do full scripts for these, I'll probably include the Waid/Kitson reboot too....Tom Bonduranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07209820912557263080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post-1096990300886611062004-10-05T11:31:00.000-04:002004-10-05T11:31:00.000-04:00Well, if you (1) want two Legions, and (2) want th...Well, if you (1) want two Legions, and (2) want the Anti-Monitor to be recreating multiple universe by way of alternate timelines, then you probably should be using the Time Beacon as more of a major plot hinge. The Beacon, after all, was designed to prevent there being more than one Legion. (Originally it was to enable the Legion to get home after time travelling rather than accidentally winding up in some other future, but later in the series there was a fairly strong implication that it did more, essentially making the legion future the only possible future and making all timelines converge to their single one in the 30th century.) Luckily, IIRC, it got blowed up real good during the crisis. So I'd suggest that you make that event more prominent in the narrative, and hold off on the duplication of the Legion until that happens...Jeff R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00893541435938915895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post-1096825568513513912004-10-03T13:46:00.000-04:002004-10-03T13:46:00.000-04:00DC put itself in quite a corner at the end of Cris...DC put itself in quite a corner at the end of <EM>Crisis</EM> -- it effectively couldn't do <EM>any</EM> parallel-universe stories without seeming to backtrack; and yet that's such a tempting source of material. The 1987 Justifiers/Bialya story in <EM>Justice League</EM> was apparently rationalized as a "parallel <EM>dimension</EM>" story, but how is that different from using something like "Earth-J?"<br /><br />Of course, DC used <EM>Zero Hour</EM> to explain its post-Crisis reboots; and eventually invented Hypertime as a back door for future parallel-universe stories. Guess that all demonstrates that rules are made to be broken.Tom Bonduranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07209820912557263080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post-1096759500648253752004-10-02T19:25:00.000-04:002004-10-02T19:25:00.000-04:00Well, I just liked the idea of the white wall, and...Well, I just liked the idea of the white wall, and not having to explain why it was different in the anti-matter universe. I've always thought the white nothingness wasn't the anti-matter itself, but the reaction between positive matter and anti-matter.<br /><br />I do appreciate the feedback. I know it was a lot to wade through.Tom Bonduranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07209820912557263080noreply@blogger.com