Originally Posted by
Kirk Brent
For a long time, I've wanted to see a storyline that leads to the separation of "New Earth" back into five respective Earths. It would include a rebirth for these worlds and their continuities, and every family of books would have an "Earth-" designation on the cover. DC's publishing output could then be set across a Multiverse of books.
Earth-0: "Ultimate DC" or an Earth where the next generation has succeeded the original heroes and villains of the DCU.
Earth-1: Essentially the Rebirth continuity after Doomsday Clock. The Kents are back, Alfred's alive, Jor-El's erased, Jon remains Superboy, and so on. This would be the Earth most like the DC continuity of the last thirty or so years. Action Comics and Detective would be set here, as well as Wally West: The Flash and Barry Allen: The Flash. Barry would actually live with Iris in the future again but would travel the Multiverse while Wally is the main Flash of the DCU again.
Earth-2: Essentially the Earth-2 we knew from pre-COIE. Books here would include Justice Society of America and The World's Finest, set in the Golden Age. The modern era of this Earth would eventually be seen in a third book.
Earth-3: Titles here include The Adventures of Alexander Luthor, focusing on his initially-solo war on evil and corruption, and The Syndicate, focusing on the Crime Syndicate.
Earth-4: The Charlton characters reside here, not seen through the Watchmen lens like Morrison did in Multiversity but instead, seen through a lighter and more comical lens like the post-COIE JLA books. Booster and Blue Beetle would have a book, along with a Peacemaker book (he'd be the one straight man in the whole universe) and a Question series.
Earth-5: This would be home to the original Captain Marvel, now returned to his original name: Captain Thunder. The Thunder Family would also feature heavily.
Earth-6: Horror is the name of the game here: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Sandman, Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E., you name it.
Earth-7: The heavy sci-fi universe: Adam Strange, Challengers of The Unknown, Hawkworld, etc.
These are just the core universes; others could be added as well. For some Earths, mini or maxi-series could be utilized to gauge interest. Earths based on Elseworlds would work well here, like Red Rain, Gotham By Gaslight, etc.
I know nothing even close to this is ever going to happen, but it's what I'd like to see.