Mr Byrne, are there any examples of de-uniquing that you enjoyed or approve of?

Thanks in advance.

I guess I was the same. As a kid, and someone who loved animals, it was cool. I remember desiring animal spin-offs for the likes of Spider-Man, but it does dilute the originals.

I visited my comic store recently (I rarely go there) and in addition to mainstream Spider-Man, there was Miles Morales, Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen and Silk.

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I'll try and remember that, Jess. ;)

It seems villains, for the most part, have avoided de-uniquing. Not all, of course, but quite a few. I know there were multiple Green Goblins and then you had Hobgoblin. I know there was a female Dr. Octopus at one point. That said, there are some supervillains who are still unique.

Multiple Green Lanterns on Earth makes no sense to me.

The Green Lantern Corps itself is the most 'deuniqued' thing DC ever came up with. I think that's why I liked Alan Scott better, in the Earth-2 days. There really was nobody like him, and there was no 'Legion of Green Superheroes' on his world to worry about.

Abin Sur 'passing the torch' to Hal is still a great origin, but if Abin had been the only GL at that point, it would have made even more of an impact. 

'What If...' being a GL was like possessing the Captain Universe power...only one customer at a time?

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That's an interesting point, Mark. 

Plus, although I accept coincidences and the like in comics (i.e. robbers robbing a bank on the day Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne deposit their cheques), sometimes, even within fiction, it may go too far. I mean, I recently learnt - within the last few days - that someone else was bitten by THAT radioactive spider (who I thought had died after biting Parker).