How Multiversity Sets Up the Future of DC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- If you've been reading Grant Morrison's The Multiversity, you're probably pretty familiar with the Map of the Multiverse by now. But if you think you know all its secrets, think again.
In this must-watch DC All Access clip, Blair talks to the Multiverse Map artist, Rian Hughes, about the secrets that lie within. Why do some worlds have circles around them? What's with the question mark Earths? Answers...and more questions...await!
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Think you know all the secrets of the Map of the Multiverse by now? Think again. In this must-watch #DCAllAccess clip, Multiverse Map artist Rian Hughes shares the secrets that lie within: th-cam.com/video/6BYcxALtnsM/w-d-xo.html
amazing.
EARTH-ME was amazing!
***** that would be AWESOME! If Marvel created the hype of heroes team up in a movie, DC will redefine it by creating a team of multiverses! They can have civil war, we can actually have Justice League v Crime Syndicate! Which essentially JL v JL!!!
Ozz Lee When it comes to telling different stories. The possibilities are endless, in The Multiversity.
Amazing! Thanks!
love what grant Morrison has been doing with multiversity.
This is why I love DC more than marvel
If you mean because of the multiverse then lol, marvels is more expanded actually.
UltraX34
still... dc has better characters and stories so dc>marvel
UltraX34
Yeah, but they barely use it / explore it :P
increiblo lol. Next month they are going full blown with the spiderverse event. Also, next year and half of 2016 is based on a huge multiverse event.
Pedro Pèrez and maybe only over some time. Marvel currently is putting out better books.
It would be cool if fans could win a chance(s) to be drawn into a Earth 33 crossover at some point.
you can be the guy wearing the Superman outfit at an Amusement park who gets sucked into a massive multiversal Battle of the Supermen! :P
*****
That would be outstanding. I’d be like the only terrified Superman running away from the fight, screaming “BE CARFULE WHAT YOU @#$%ing WISH FOR!!!!”
Too bad they haven't followed up with this storyline in a while. Last year, Grant Morrison said that he would be making "Multiversity Too" stories and releasing them this year, but no new news has come up since then. I just hope that they just put it on hold until Rebirth is set up properly and haven't completely canned this concept.
So there is potential for the multiverse to expand past 52. Good to know.
There is chatter that the 52 universes are just the local group.
I keep coming back for the music.
have i missed something? because as far as i was aware, our Earth was always Earth 0. it's even stated like that in the interactive map on the DC website. so did they change it to Earth 33 then?
I literally think he means our literal world we live in now is earth 33
Earth-0 is the world the Justice League lives in and most of the comics take place on.
Earth-33 is the world we are currently on, where there are no superheroes.
Nathaniel Lovin I swore the Justice League was on Earth 2... I may have dreamed it though...
Earth 2 is the Justice League of the Golden age of comics with Original characters such as Alan Scott Green Lantern
ohhhhh, okay that makes so much more sense now :') i thought he meant, us as in the comics, like the official justice league and stuff. cheers for clearing that uo for me :p
I am kind of new to comics, in terms of reading them. I have watched the animated movies and shows, so I know characters and arcs but multiverse really come into play in comics. Will this series help me understand multiverse because I am really confused.
The series does offer some brief explanations, but it seems like it's best enjoyed if you already understand the concept. Probably one of the quickest ways to get an understanding is of the multiverse is the "Legends" 2-part episode of the Justice League cartoon. I think the comic where alternate dc universes were 1st introduced was in the old flash comic titled "Flash of Two worlds".
Joseph Brocato okay thanks I will watch that episode.
Mostly the series is just a lot of fun. The story of the multiverse is that it used to be infinite, filled with every possible earth, but do to various crises it's been reduced to only 52 Earths. If you just want a simple, fun multiverse story check out Earth 2 with Morrison and Quitely.
Well, I'll try to bring you up to speed regarding the DC multiverse: In the 40's, in what's known as "The Golden Age" of comics, after the superhero boom started by Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, they start making a whole lot of 'em, among them characters like Dr. Fate, the Spectre, and the original versions of Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Atom, etc. Some of 'em join and form the Justice Society of America. By the late 40's/early 50's, superheroes lose much of their popularity, and the only DC characters that keep being published regularily are Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
But, in the late 50's, DC editor Julius Schwartz pushes to bring superheroes back, and assigns creators to make new heroes with old names, and they make the new Flash, Green Lantern, the Atom, Hawkman (these are the versions that are mostly known nowdays). This era is known as "The Silver Age". These, also, join and form the Justice League of America; a group that eventually also includes Superman and Batman.
But, and here it gets interesting, in the origin of the modern Flash (Barry Allen), he decides to call himself 'the Flash' because he had read the comics of the older Flash (Jay Garrick). So, how could it be, that, for the modern Flash, the old Flash is fictional; but for guys like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, they're both real? This gets explained in the "The Flash of Two Worlds", where Barry Allen finds himself accidentally transported to a parallel Earth, where the older Flash is real- And, by extension, in that Earth, now called 'Earth-2', also exist the older Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, etc. plus, the "Golden Age" versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Upon returning to his own world, now named 'Earth-1', the modern Flash explains that Gardner Fox, writer of the original Flash (and also writer of "The Flash of Two Worlds" itself; so he put himself in his own story), unknowingly chanelled events from a parallel Earth with his mind.
Afterwards, since that story was pretty well recieved, they made other characters meet their Earth-2 counterparts; and then they did yearly Justice League / Justice Society crossovers (named "Crisis"), established other Earths; such as Earth-3, where existed the Justice League's evil counterpart, the Crime Syndicate. Plus, everytime that DC bought another publisher, they assigned their characters their own Earth (with Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, from Fawcett comics, existing on Earth-S, Quality comics characters on Earth-X, and Charlton comics characters on Earth-4).
By the mid-80's, DC wished to streamline all it's continuities into one, and to do so, they made "Crisis on Infinite Earths", which put all the characters in the same Earth and retroactively made all stories to have happened in the same world; with fixes like the Justice Society existing during World War II (without Superman or Batman, and with Wonder Woman's mother, Hippolyta, retroactively being 'the original' Wonder Woman), and the Justice League continuing their legacy in the present. The multiverse comes back years later (without altering the new 'main' Earth or its continuity, 'tho) during 52, but now limited to 52 parallel earths; and it seems to be still around that way in the current, post-Flashpoint, days.
Anyways, Multiversity goes back to that idea of the events of Earth-2 existing on Earth-1 as comics... So comics themselves are unwitting paths of communication between parallel earths. Each issue of Multiversity is a first issue of an imagined series, each happening in a different DC parallel earth. And the Earth of each issue exists in the next as a comic. For example, in the 3rd issue of Multiversity, "The Just", the characters of that Earth can be seen reading the 2nd issue, "Society of Superheroes", just like we did the month before. And when a threat is attacking Earth after Earth, only the characters paying attention to the comics have a clue of what's happening.
increiblo OMG thank you. You just explained something that Wikipedia couldn't. Major respect to you. Literally, I cannot thank you enough. This makes a lot of sense... I am amazed what DC accomplished. The most complex alternate timelines I have been exposed to is Charmed.
does anyone know if this will be published in a TPB anytime soon? can't wait to read it, but single issues are hard for me to get hold of...
Probably sometime next Summer for the hardcover.
The series doesn't end until March or April, depending on if they double ship Mastermen and Ultra Comics or Ultra Comics and the final issue.
Usually 3 to 6 months after the final floppy issue is released.
When DC establish their cinematic universe, they can do crossovers with their television shows like The Flash. Where Grant Gustin meets Ezra Miller. It could be based on this classic story. "Flash of Two Worlds" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Two_Worlds
I would love to see something like that! From your mind to DC's ear....
starkid77 I found this article on Facebook. Geoff Johns just confirm what i said about how they might use The Multiversity in the future. click on this link>comicbook.com/2014/10/23/geoff-johns-talks-dcs-live-action-tv-and-film-mutliverse-wont-ru/
So its official Earth 33 is Earth prime aka our world
We've known that for a while.
No Superboy Prime in Multiversity though.
Nathaniel Lovin im thinking he either is still stuck in the source wall or is roaming around the galaxy after the events lights out perhaps
+KON- EL nope grant confirmed that superboyprime exists it's just that it's before he gains his powers
Interesting wonder if he will actually be a true hero this time and not have delusions of grandeur
KON- EL I hope he doesn't start saying things like "I'll kill you, I'll kill you to death."
So are you guys are the people who make the earth 1,6,9and many others and so batman is real person but just in a different earth or is it just like that in the comic books
My goodness DC stop confusing us!
i liked this alot
somehow I am not surprised "our world" was numbered 33.
I'm very confused by what I just heard
52 parallel Earths (i.e. Alternate Realities). Each is slightly different from the next.
Great.
In pretty new to comics I watched most animated movies and shows so I know the story arcs 52 but where do I start so I can understand the new 52
Daaamn see I would do that but I got wrestling practice till seven so I like have no time. I just don't know where to start
Ik I will have to start somewhere
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So wait..... Blair's isn't fired?
I don't get why they just stuck to 52 earths, isn't the multiverse ever expanding ?
There have always been more than 52 earths, but the 52 theme is symbolic.
***** *Scarlet Spider actually...
There were infinite earths until the Anti-monitor destroy all but 52 of them. Now 52 earths is symbolic to DC
***** No one calls K. P. Spider-Man! He is the Scarlet Spider!
***** That's like calling Conner Kent (a.k.a. Superboy) Superman.
Blair's not fired
maybe he recorded this before he got fired, or maybe he actually is an android whit technical problems ?
im hoping he did not get fired and just got promoted but if he did I wonder why he seems like a nice guy
stelex13
why would he get fired?
SoulEdge41 don't know many people like me think he might have because dc is looking for a new cohost for tiffany when blair has always been cohosting with her
Or... He may just be over it and decided to move on
Why only 52 earths why not increase the limit to something like 375 so creators are not handicapped and readers get a large enough variety to satisfy even the pickiest fan.
wait.... so in other words, the world that I am living in now, is Earth 0? This earth sucks.
No, you're living on Earth-33.
Unless your comment has somehow come through the bleed and you actually live in the main DCU.
Earth 0 has all of the main new 52 Superheros so it does not suck
theinfamousmrsleep Did you watch the entire video? Did you pay attention when watching? Apparently not.
It's stated *very* clearly that _our_ Earth is Earth-33. And yes it's pretty lame in comparison to the other Earths in the multiverse.
I like the DC Universe? I wana see a female Clark Kent as Super-woman kissing Bruce Wayne, and Wonderwoman as Wonderman.
+Horacio Barrios
About the multiverse I am surprise there isn't universes out there that isn't almost perfect in every way. With all that get your cape on and step into the light and save the world from crime deeds, I am shocked that didn't create some ripple effect in several universes where evil and crime is almost fake. If those almost perfect universes exist that I call dream universes, you do know the entire multiverse will protect those universes like a gold mind outside those universes. I am surprise we haven't seen some of those almost perfect characters make a appearance entering the main DC Universe .
I once wrote a fan fiction say Harley Quinn from the main DC universe, she entered a dream universe and she felt she was in heaven almost everywhere. Sadly though Harley's Bat-man from the main DC universe made her leave.
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I would like to write some fan fiction for fun and let you read it. How about it?
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Some stuff I made up!
1. The idol gods don't really exist they are just titans from mythology.
2. The watchers are beyond what the humans call gods and High Father.
3. Planet heaven in the great beyond is always beyond all creation far away beyond everything out there.
4. The watchers are always basically perfect mature and can be trusted
Dc entertainment
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Blackice70009 nope
UCFTyler YUP
This is all so confusing!
You get used to it.
this is so confusing, just give us straight stories in the main books and then have weird stuff happening on the side :p
This is on the side.
It is not confusing at all. There are 52 parallel Earths, each of whom is slightly different than one another.
The map is just a fun way to showcase the information.
0:18 who's that bald girl I keep on seeing?
Alexis Luthor
DC keeps "unifying" these multiverses (why do we need multiple?) with some form of "crisis" every two years. It makes one not care to invest in a continuity if that continuity is "shaken up" so things will "never be the same" with "a major character dying" who'll only be brought back to life later. Not being a hater, just stating the 900 pound cliche in the room.
They haven't been 'unified' since the original Crisis on Infinite Earths back in the 80s. There's always been 52 since then, it only became apparent to the cast and characters with the Infinite Crisis and 52 events. But since then the 52 universes have pretty much always existed without any 'shaking up'. And not every character comes back to life *coughcough* Lian Harper *cough*