Don't we need alternate Earths now?

[caj]

We've got too many characters with the same powers. Wouldn't spreading them over alternate Earths be the solution for keeping them all without overloading Earth 1?

[PyroTwilight]

DC and comics as a whole are very averse to having worlds outside of their main Earth with any real focus. It doesn't help that it instantly bumps it into less important to many fans causing sales to suffer.

[qwertyuiop1998]

But there have no point to spreading them
I mean if DC wont portraying them then those characters essentially haven't much role in stories, Which mean they potentially doesn't existence since you never have attenttions on them

[caj]

But according to people on this site, Didio hates Dick Grayson because he makes Batman too old.

So put Dick, Donna, Wally, Roy, Garth, and Lilith on Earth 2 or some other Earth and they can age just like they should and can still be Titans together.

[MajorHoy]

But according to people on this site, Didio hates Dick Grayson because he makes Batman too old.

So put Dick, Donna, Wally, Roy, Garth, and Lilith on Earth 2 or some other Earth and they can age just like they should and can still be Titans together.

This assumes DC wants to publish stories using Dick, Donna, Wally, Roy, Garth, Lilith, Mal, etc.
(Or, at least use them heroically . . . )

[Lee Stone]

Lol!!

Some people would like that...

Put the Titans all on their own little world.
Have a token mini-series to give the illusion that DC will do something with them.
Then run an event at the same time to pull retailer dollars away from the Titans mini.
And then say that sales for the mini were bad and represents readers not wanting to read them.
Leave them in limbo for about a year or two.
Then have a major event that brings their world into the DCU and use it to kill them all off.

End scene.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

DC has done that with Wildstorm and Milestone. They did a title called Earth 2 that focus on a version of the Justice Society so maybe they could do one called Earth 3 (insert appropriate number) for the Titans.

I liked the idea of Titans Earth One being about the sidekicks without their mentors in their lives.

You could do a storyline where the Titans get stranded on Earth 3 and have to fight their way back home or decide to stay and defeat the Crime Syndicate.

[Lee Stone]

Although... I do agree that there is a need for alternate Earths.
But DC wants to have their cake and eat it, too.

It would be nice to have a comic world that isn't full of metas. Something like Batman Year One/Sandman Mystery Theatre, where you have masked heroes in a low-powered world.
It could even be modern, just with very minor powers. Black Canary or Black Lightning would be the max power level.

And it would be nice to have some of the horror or magic stuff on another world.
Once the mystic characters get to their full potential and are facing competent threats, when those stories reach an Act 3 they're often impacting the whole Earth in some way.
It's hard to suspend belief long enough to think that the Trinity or the League wouldn't somehow get involved.

Every major conflict would have to be treated like Swamp Thing #24 or JLDark (2011) #1 (or Doom Patrol #28-29), where there's a scene showing how ineffective regular heroes are and how everything depends on the fringe characters that are seemingly never around when the DC Universe has its own line-wide cataclysmic event.

[cgh]

It would be nice to have a comic world that isn't full of metas. Something like Batman Year One/Sandman Mystery Theatre, where you have masked heroes in a low-powered world.
It could even be modern, just with very minor powers. Black Canary or Black Lightning would be the max power level.

I am so down with this idea. Maybe Superman exists, but he's the 1930s version, able to leap tall buildings, run really fast and punch holes in brick walls, and that's about it.

[Lee Stone]

I am so down with this idea. Maybe Superman exists, but he's the 1930s version, able to leap tall buildings, run really fast and punch holes in brick walls, and that's about it.

Something I liked about Batman Year One and Sandman Mystery Theatre was the vulnerability of the heroes, how they were really human under the costume. They had limits.
Batman 'feeling it' when jumping around the fire escapes still makes that version seem the most real to me.

[pageturner]

This assumes DC wants to publish stories using Dick, Donna, Wally, Roy, Garth, Lilith, Mal, etc.
(Or, at least use them heroically . . . )

That could depend on how the streaming show is doing.

[byrd156]

We've got too many characters with the same powers. Wouldn't spreading them over alternate Earths be the solution for keeping them all without overloading Earth 1?

Powers don't equal character.

[dswynne]

You know, it might not be a bad idea.

The way I would do it would be to keep Earth-0/Prime as the "current" DCU. Didio can use that Earth to publish a "current" Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc., but it will always be "Year One". No side-kicks. No next generation of heroes. The environment and situations may change, but the characters who could have existed within a "Year One" context. And every character has to be on the same page, while there is no need to do a re-telling of the characters origins. The characters are active at the prime of the careers with none of the later baggage. Now, that doesn't mean that the side-kicks and next-generation characters don't exist, or won't exist, but that they don't exist in the context of a "Year One". It simply means that, as far as writing and plotting, that additional stuff won't be used, since the primary focus is on the principle characters.

Meanwhile, on Earth-1, you have the second-generation of heroes and side-kicks (present and former) active. Now, you can have a Batman interacting with a Nightwing or a Robin, and the Teen Titans and Young Justice are around, not to mention the other independent heroes who came after the Trinity (Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman). This would be the DCU ten to twenty years later. Superman and Lois have a kid now; Batman, while active still, is starting to feel his age (which could be an interesting plot development for a man who is pushing himself hard to not be irrelevant); Wonder Woman becoming wiser to the ways of the world, but is she more cynical about it?

Ultimately, it's up to Dan Didio to decide what he wants to do, and certainly he feels that it is more profitable to push more Batman products, free of a lot of baggage (including side-kicks, apparently).

[Vakanai]

Putting characters on their own earth is a great way to quietly push them out of the way and let them disappear. Other earths don't matter is the mindset, so better hope no characters you like are put on one.

[Vakanai]

Something I liked about Batman Year One and Sandman Mystery Theatre was the vulnerability of the heroes, how they were really human under the costume. They had limits.
Batman 'feeling it' when jumping around the fire escapes still makes that version seem the most real to me.

We also got a lot of that with the Earth One Batman. Some say it took that concept too far and made him weak, but I liked it. Made the payoff all the sweeter when he won. Especially when Batman is just starting out, some random criminals should get away every now and then. Part of the learning curve.