If so, what ideas do you have for Elseworld comics?
If so, what ideas do you have for Elseworld comics?
Isn't the Black label imprint sort of a combination of the Elseworlds and vertigo imprints?
I want a Multiversity imprint. Some ideas for books:
- Multiversity: the flagship book, focusing on Justice Incarnate.
- Flash Infinity: Barry Allen and N52 Vibe teaming up to handle multiversal crisis.
- The Golden Earth: a book about the original versions of the Trinity and JSA.
- Earth Icon: The further adventures of the heroes from Pre-Crisis Earth-1.
- Earth II: reimagining Earth-2 as a world where heroes being around during WWII truly changed the course of history and everyone aged in real time.
"It's fun and it's cool, so that's all that matters. It's what comics are for, Duh."
Words to live by.
I hate multiverse, so yes!
Main universe on the monthly book series, every other universe stories or ideas under the Elseworld label.
"It's fun and it's cool, so that's all that matters. It's what comics are for, Duh."
Words to live by.
I suppose more than just the imprint, what I'd like to see is imaginative Elseworlds stories treated as they were intended, as one-offs that don't necessarily have to represent a separate continuity. It would also be fun to see some stuff done with other characters, like Black Lightning as a returning WWI veteran, Vixen fighting European colonists in the 18th century, or a LoEG-esque Justice Society of England.
They're already are experimenting with many books set on different versions of Earth and removed Earth 0's main universe designation. Moving away from publishing main books set in whatever universe needs to go away, most people don't buy all or every book anyway in their main line.
The old Elseworlds tend to had different settings. Black Label is out of continuity with Vertigo elements.
I think the difference between Black Label and Elseworlds are that the Black Label books, by and large, are set in alternate continuities that are variations of 'mainstream' continuity. Whereas Elseworlds tended to be set in radically different continuities/universes.
For e.g. Black Label is something like 'Three Jokers' that takes a broad strokes approach to mainstream Batman continuity while not strictly fitting in to said continuity. While Elseworlds is something like 'Gotham by Gaslight' which totally reimagines Batman as being around in the 19th century!
Or, another example, Black Label is something like 'Superman Year One', a new retelling/reimagining of the traditional Superman origin story. Elseworlds is 'Red Son', which imagines Superman as having landed in Soviet Russia and being a radically different take on the concept.
Of course, I'm sure both labels have had examples of both types of stories, but broadly speaking, I think this is the difference in approach between the two.
Incidentially, DKR, which has long been labelled an Elseworlds, fits more into the 'Black Label' methodology. Then again, DKR predates the Elseworlds label altogether...
Yes. I would love to see it as a double sized , that hits maybe every two or three months. Otherwise, it just becomes the same old same old.