Quote Originally Posted by Vakanai View Post
That's Morrison's version of what Superman would be, minus the Crisis. And he pulled it off. You can't expect every writer to pull it off. You're just as likely to wind up with a crappy story as you are an All Star Superman. Honestly, trying to imagine where all these heroes would be in a Crisis free world is no different than any other big reboot, and just as likely to create crappy takes as good ones.
I think Jim's point was that it wasn't necessary to do COIE to progress the universe, because it just tangled everything in nots. Stuff like All-Star is an example of what the DCU could look like if it wasn't concerned with constantly rebooting and rebuilding continuity. Stuff was changing pre-COIE and there is no reason it couldn't have continued to grow organically from there.

It's way too late to reverse now, but it was never necessary to begin with.