Can DC restore the multiverse and preserve Earth 0?

[Kid Kyoto]

One arguement against restoring the multiple Earths is that we would lose the last 20 years of the JSA, JLA etc all on the same team.

I remember hearing the initial JLI line-up was deliberatley chosen to include people from all 5 surviving Earths and DC might not want to segregate them again.

But what if they brought back Earth 1, 2, S, X etc but left Earth 0 intact. So there would be a nearly identical Captain Marvel on Earth S but no Superman or Captain Atom. Would that work or would it be too confusing?

If they did I would like the parallel Earths to have aged in real time, since they'd be of secondary importance you could have an Earth 1 where Superman debuted in the 60s and is now retiring. An Earth 2 where not only did Batman die and be replaced by his daughter but now she's 50 years old and her child is taking up the mantel!

If only...

[Bat-Mite]

They can bring the multiverse, and yet keep everyone on the same Earth. They did it before, and they called it Hypertime.

[rwe1138]

IMO the idea of Hypertime was one of the best in comic book history.

[glennsim]

There are a number of different ways a Multiverse could be implemented in the DCU, many of which don't involve changing anything about what's going on on the current Earth. You could just discover another Earth in addition.

You could even "bring back Earth 2", where history is the Earth 2 history up until the events of the Crisis, but from there history continues as it would have had the Crisis never happened. Doesn't mean that the current Alan Scott GL has to be displaced to that Earth 2. It just turns out that there's two Alan Scotts.

[batturtle]

I don't think that DC will ever truly be done with the multiverse.
Every time a writer or editor wants to be rid of it, a little while later someone will come along with a good idea and being it back (like Grant Morrison with Hypertime). Which is fine by me. I like it. I don't think we'll be long before some more alternate universe stuff pops up.

[Kara Zor El]

There are a number of different ways a Multiverse could be implemented in the DCU, many of which don't involve changing anything about what's going on on the current Earth. You could just discover another Earth in addition.

You could even "bring back Earth 2", where history is the Earth 2 history up until the events of the Crisis, but from there history continues as it would have had the Crisis never happened. Doesn't mean that the current Alan Scott GL has to be displaced to that Earth 2. It just turns out that there's two Alan Scotts.

I think you're right. I don't think Multiverse Earth charcacters and stories should be told seperatly of the New Earth though. That's where it will confuse. Just have that whenever a writer wants to have an alternate Earth it's because the JLA or an individual from New Earth or Earth One or whatever it is travels over to it for an adventure.

[Buried Alien]

The newest issue of THE FLASH suggests that DC might already have done just that.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[mathew101281]

You should have a JSA earth

and a JLA earth

all the other characters that don't have connections to one or the other should be evenly split between the two.

It should be like RAW and Smackdown( WWE for those of you that aren't wrestling fans)

[The Shadow]

You should have a JSA earth

and a JLA earth
so you want to take away (less some lame crossover) thge JSA characters being mentors to the new heroes AND eliminate all the great JSA stories we've had???

[Erebus]

Well, their's the Matter Universe (mainstream), and the Anti-Matter universe. Plus, the parallel universes are still "there," just not really there, ala Bizarro and the Supergirls. Plus, there are a bunch of alternate dimensions.