Let's Try Again: Tracking the 52 Worlds (and Beyond!)

[Gordonstar]

What's earth 21? Earth 38 ?

[K. Jones]

Basically Darkseid is the idea of evil. Since ideas never die he refuses to cease. He seems to be scattered across the bleed and bleeding into the multiverse in different ways. This is affecting the Gods of New Genesis as well apparently cause they're also bleeding into different worlds across the orrery and dimensions beyond that.

"He's rebuilding his Godhead from shattered fragments" his Godhead = Darkseid Prime?

Darkseid is still corrupting the bleed. It would be flipping amazing if somehow the Gentry stems from all that though it reads like they're even beyond that in terms of ominpotence.

This is just incredible.

Darkseid poisons everything he comes in contact with. Yeah, I dig it. It jives with what I've been saying about Alexander Luthor's heel-turn for a few years now. It jives with Mandrakk. It jives with Batman's whole life getting progressively darker to the point where just when we thought it could get brighter, Scott Snyder is writing Batman as a horror book and Pete Tomasi's sending Batman to face a new incarnate Darkseid form on Apokolips.

I'm just amazed how well Morrison's hyper-theory New Gods incorporate these reversals in fortune from a logical standpoint. It's almost seamless.

[K. Jones]

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Nope, it sounds like Earth-15 is exactly what it was in Countdown. You'll recall that on that world, successors replaced the classic heroes--so Jason Todd was Batman, Donna was Wonder Woman, Kyle was Green Lantern. And for some reason, Zod was Superman.

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I remember that world from Countdown, which is weird because I remember basically nothing else from Countdown. Interesting proximity to Earth-16, which also features successors who have taken over for their mentors permanently, just remixed - Damian instead of Jason, Artemis instead of Donna, Kyle's still there, though, and yeah, the Superman of Earth-16 is Lor-Zod.

[Gordonstar]

That's 4 destroyed earths.

[Nat]

Or more, depending on the state of 8, 20, 40, and 16.

[Gordonstar]

They will be ok.

Earth 15 and 2 3 7, stay destroyed.

Interesting that's there's a earth extreme with image but no ws, but ws exists in the blood moon I think. No big deal.

[Jody Garland]

Earth-47 is straight up beautiful. Or should I say spoilers:

groovy

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Also, I was closer than I thought with Earth-38. I guessed it had something to do with 1938- I was close. spoilers:

It's Byrne's Generations!

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Anybody know who the heroes on Earth-41 are? I recognize Dino Cop and spoilers:

the Scorpion

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Oh hey, Earth-32 spoilers:

does seem influenced by the Mash-Up story in Superman/Batman. The mashup team in that was the Justice Titans too. Convergent ideas, maybe.

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One neat little meta bit: spoilers:

New52 Darkseid is referred to as the Great and Terrible Darkseid in the bios for Earths 2 and 3. That seems to be a nod to Baum's Wizard of Oz, wherein the Wizard referred to himself as "The Great and Terrible Oz". And look how he turned out...

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[Myskin]

Some surprises here.
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On Earth-1 "Time and space are still pliable, and nothing here is certain" - ha! On Earth-21, JFK was never killed. Earth-31 is NOT Dark Knight Returns, but some kind of pirate world (??) Earth-38 is Generations.

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[Dispenser Of Truth]

Also, I was closer than I thought with Earth-38. I guessed it had something to do with 1938- I was close. spoilers:

It's Byrne's Generations!

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Boy, I sure wouldn't have guessed that. Seems an awfully dark place on the map for it, but it is John Byrne. Just two questions, feel free to answer obliquely or not at all: Is 33 straight up Earth Prime, Superboy and all? And what's 36's deal? Is it a pastiche after all, or something different?

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[Jody Garland]

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The pirate world is derived from an Elseworlds story in Detectic Comics Annual #7 and had another appearance in Batman Chronicles #11. It's Earth-494 in the Absolute Crisis Appendix. Pure speculation here, but I'm guessing the apparent change in it has something to do with Miller and Syner's rumored sequel.

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[Myskin]

spoilers:

The pirate world is derived from an Elseworlds story in Detectic Comics Annual #7 and had another appearance in Batman Chronicles #11. It's Earth-494 in the Absolute Crisis Appendix. Pure speculation here, but I'm guessing the apparent change in it has something to do with Miller and Syner's rumored sequel.

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Was there any official confirmation on Morrison's part about earth-31 being DKR? Because, you know, as far as I am concerned, I would have put it in the same league with All Star Superman, Watchmen, etc., the "untouchable" ones.

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[Jody Garland]

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Boy, I sure wouldn't have guessed that. Seems an awfully dark place on the map for it, but it is John Byrne. Just two questions, feel free to answer obliquely or not at all: Is 33 straight up Earth Prime, Superboy and all? And what's 36's deal? Is it a pastiche after all, or something different?

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We don't really get any real insight into Earth-36 barring its heroes: Optiiman, Flashlight, Cyberion, War-Woman, Mer-Man, Blackbird, Bowboy, and Iron Knight. Probably Big Bang Comics, as guessed: Compare Knight Watchman to Iron Knight, Blue Bird to Black Bird.

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One curiosity I noticed: spoilers:

Earth-7 seems to have a few non-Marvel characters. Devil Fist is Hellboy? Golem Concrete? Walkure Liefield's Avengelyne?

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[Jody Garland]

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Was there any official confirmation on Morrison's part about earth-31 being DKR? Because, you know, as far as I am concerned, I would have put it in the same league with All Star Superman, Watchmen, etc., the "untouchable" ones.

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Official? Technically not, but he explicitly mentions a Miller world here. No reason for it to be untouchable, either, considering it was used during Countdown.

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[Myskin]

One curiosity I noticed: spoilers:

Earth-7 seems to have a few non-Marvel characters. Devil Fist is Hellboy? Golem Concrete? Walkure Liefield's Avengelyne?

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You're right. What the hell?

[Jody Garland]

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People noticed them back in Multiversity #1, which is the weird thing. They were legit there. On a side note, for those curious about the Light Brigade's membership, it goes as follows: Master Motley: Jack-in-the-Box Ghostman: No idea on this one, but the dude looks like Storm Shadow and that's cool. Radman: Atomicus? Cutie: Beauty Goodfellow: The Gentleman mixed with Lil' Abner Forumla-1: MPH Herculina: Winged Victory Savior: Samaritan And Stingray is our Batman, which means he's Confessor? What?

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