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We just came off of a massive Spider-Verse crossover with hundreds if not thousands of Spider-Man iterations involved. There are so many Hulks a cartoon series featuring them as a team was made. The current Hulk is Amadeus Cho. Anyone who puts on a Stark suit of armor is an Iron Man and the number of Captain Americas continues to grow. There are X-Men from multiple timelines running around meeting their own counterparts all the time in the books now and many temporally displaced parallel-timeliners have been around now for decades. Decades.
Can we stop imagining this is a DC problem?
The idea of an older version of Superman, married with a nine-year old kid, meeting the current (possibly soon-to-be deceased) version is not that big a stretch in an industry where there are currently, what? five or more Spider-Man variant titles; one the alternate universe of his dead girlfriend, another the hither-unto-unheard of second victim of the radioactive spider's bite, another the once-an-alternate-earth-replacement-now-relocated-to-this-Ea rth version. Spider-Man 2099 was a big deal again recently in the Spider-Verse as well. Spider-Ham was an ongoing character once again. The cartoon pig version of Spider-Man... was a regular supporting cast member again. Once again, for those just tuning in: Cartoon Pig Spider-Man; an ongoing thing recently.The Spider-Men at Marvel are now crawling the walls because there's no place for them to sit down.
The idea of a New Superman who is Chinese is not one iota more confusing or mind-boggling than a New Spider-Man who is Black. it's not that difficult to grok at all... But it's DC, so we have to all pretend it's impossible for us to understand. 'Cause that's the spin and therefore the story.
The Story of DC the media and the little media parrots must tell, the only one they can tell, the only one imaginable to them, is "Another Crisis! Another Crisis! *Braw-w-wk!!* Can't figure it out!" The above linked story reports absolutely nothing like that in the offing, despite its own tedious squawking and invocations of "Another Crisis! Another Crisis!" One guy's dying. His counterpart's been hanging around in the background for almost ten years. And someone completely new is coming up to take over the name. None of that requires universe rebooting. Maybe the new Superwoman is from another Earth. Maybe she's their Lois Lane. Maybe. Me, I think she could be another Gwen. Can never have too many Gwens. Still, nothing is all that confusing about any of it, except, y'know, the Story of DC is "Confusing," so in headlines today: "Confusing!"
But I apologize. I'm interrupting your bored comic-hipster take on things here. You all have some very important eye-rolling and repeating yourselves to accomplish. Don't let me rain on your parade. "Marvel cool once. Sad now. DC bad. DC always bad. Head hurt. Don' get it..." Because we simply can NOT make these points often enough, even when they're not apparently relevant.
Before I close, someone above called the Jurgens "Lois & Clark" version the "classic" one. It's not the original. It's not the Weisinger era one whose stories continued through to the mid-Eighties. It's not even JB's Man of Steel. Jurgens' version is the post-Zero Hour one whose continuity and origin kept getting stepped on time and time again throughout the early part of this century; arguably getting erased around the time of the New Krypton storyline to clear space for the Superman whose title ended with the singularly unspectacular "Grounded" storyline. Unless you're a big Jurgens fan, there is nothing "classic" whatsoever about that version of the character.
Edited by Brian Hague on 09 April 2016 at 9:49pm
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