Comments on: The Crisis Continues http://toddseavey.com/2008/06/09/the-crisis-continues/ Conservatism for punks. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2008/06/09/the-crisis-continues/#comment-15016 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:46:38 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/06/09/the-crisis-continues/#comment-15016 By the way: if Morrison loves metafiction so much, and Johns is making so much use of Superman-Prime, who hails from a "real" world beyond the DC multiverse, isn't it odd so little use has yet been made of the founding conceit of the DC multiverse, namely that Earth-2 is depicted in Earth-1's fiction? Might Earth-3 be depicted in Earth-2's fiction, and so on? More important: might Earth-2 actually "be" fictional from Earth-1's perspective -- and Earth-1 a fiction from Superman-Prime's perspective, which is why he feels no guilt about killing "inferior" characters and is insane? And might not a Monitor, turned into a young Earthman, as in _Final Crisis_ #1, have a rather unusual comic book collection, _which cannot be damaged without terrible consequences..._? But perhaps I'm anticipating elements of the perception-warping and multiversal _Superman Beyond_. By the way: if Morrison loves metafiction so much, and Johns is making so much use of Superman-Prime, who hails from a “real” world beyond the DC multiverse, isn’t it odd so little use has yet been made of the founding conceit of the DC multiverse, namely that Earth-2 is depicted in Earth-1’s fiction? Might Earth-3 be depicted in Earth-2’s fiction, and so on?

More important: might Earth-2 actually “be” fictional from Earth-1’s perspective — and Earth-1 a fiction from Superman-Prime’s perspective, which is why he feels no guilt about killing “inferior” characters and is insane?

And might not a Monitor, turned into a young Earthman, as in _Final Crisis_ #1, have a rather unusual comic book collection, _which cannot be damaged without terrible consequences…_?

But perhaps I’m anticipating elements of the perception-warping and multiversal _Superman Beyond_.

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