pre-Crisis appreciation

[Pharozonk]

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[Buried Alien]

I've always found it odd, considering their central role in Multiverse stories, that no Flashes appeared on that cover.

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[marshal99]

[Dataweaver]

I didn’t have a problem with the DCU as it existed in the immediate aftermath of the Crisis, where the heroes who had participated in the Crisis remembered the Multiverse and the consolidated universe was populated in part by refugees from before the Crisis. I wouldn’t mind (but don’t expect) learning that one of the worlds in the New 52 is exactly that: an Earth populated by Silver-Age heroes who survived the original Crisis and remember it as it actually happened, and who have adopted the world they ended up on as their home. Frankly, that would be my candidate for Earth-14 in Morrison’s Multiverse.

[The_Greatest_Username]

I'm still a semi-spring chicken, but the Pre-Crisis continuity as a whole (what I've read of it) is my favorite DCU.

[Buried Alien]

I'm still a semi-spring chicken, but the Pre-Crisis continuity as a whole (what I've read of it) is my favorite DCU.

The beauty of the Pre-COIE continuity was that it was simple. People who are unfamiliar with it hear old rumors about how supposedly "complicated" and "hard to understand" it was, but it wasn't. The old continuity was written primarily for an audience of children, and that audience understood the continuity just fine.

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[The Darknight Detective]

The beauty of the Pre-COIE continuity was that it was simple. People who are unfamiliar with it hear old rumors about how supposedly "complicated" and "hard to understand" it was, but it wasn't. The old continuity was written primarily for an audience of children, and that audience understood the continuity just fine.

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Right. I started reading DC comics at age 7 and never had a problem understanding what was going on. Neither did any of my friends.

[Pharozonk]

Right. I started reading DC comics at age 7 and never had a problem understanding what was going on. Neither did any of my friends.

And that's why the claim that continuity is too hard for new readers to penetrate is total crap.

[Blind Otto]

And, the multiverse was so simple, every time it popped up, they could explain it in one panel. Occasionally two, particularly if more than one earth was involved.
But it wasn't hard to understand.
It was also rare for a pre-crisis comic to reference past stories. Not unheard of, but still rare. It wasn't as if you had to go and buy the entire run of, say, Teen Titans, to understand what was going on if they showed up in DC Comics Presents.

Now we're stuck with the New 52, and no one seems to know what's going on. Least of all some of the writers.

[The Darknight Detective]

And that's why the claim that continuity is too hard for new readers to penetrate is total crap.

Well,.. it was different than, though. A new reader could pick up a Bronze Age comic and not miss a beat via editor notes. That's not really the case in recent years, however.

[byrd156]

Well,.. it was different than, though. A new reader could pick up a Bronze Age comic and not miss a beat via editor notes. That's not really the case in recent years, however.

Plus using the argument that it's to hard to understand especially now is totally bs, if you don't understand something that is happening or happened in a story you can just look it up on the internet.

[The Darknight Detective]

Plus using the argument that it's to hard to understand especially now is totally bs, if you don't understand something that is happening or happened in a story you can just look it up on the internet.

That's very true and what I do, but there are a lot of lazy people out there.

[Agent of Wolfram & Hart]

Pre Crisis DCU is something I miss epically

[Jon-El]

Adults make comics confusing by trying to form exact timelines & the like. Kids aren't nearly as perplexed. My first comic at the age of 5 was a reprint featuring Superman & Batman battling the Composite Superman. Here you have a villain with green skin that has all the powers of the Legion of Super Heroes, a team from the 30th century that Superman belonged to when he was a boy. That was my FIRST comic & I could explain it in detail to anyone that would listen! Adults overthink everything & suck all the fun out.

They would show a panel of overlapping Earths with Barry Allen's face beside one & Jay Garrick's face beside the other. How hard is that to understand?

[marshal99]