Dimensions and the Multiverse

[Joe Acro]

With there being a multiverse, how are other dimensions affected? Was the Fifth Dimension split into 52? What about the Phantom Zone? The Fourth World?

Or has DC simply taken an approach similar to Marvel's and said that there's only one of each of those dimensions?

Perhaps no one knows the answers because I doubt these things have been addressed in the comics yet, but it's something to ponder.

[Lex]

Pfft. The 5th Dimension is a higher plane of existence. They're above our puny human concepts such as alternate universes.

But good question on the Phantom Zone. When Mr. Mind spit it out, they were floating in that place between all the worlds. Where did it go? Did Supernova put it back in the New Earth multiverse? Or is it a dimension like The Bleed that all universes can access?

[Calybos]

Back at the original Crisis, the solitary Phantom Zone (and Bgztl) was unaffected because it wasn't an alternate positive-matter universe, but rather a separate dimension entirely.

So I see no reason to think it would split into parallel pieces just because the positive-matter Earths have reppeared.

[Shellhead]

According to the first issue of Countdown, that Source Wall from Kirby's Fourth World mythos now marks the separation between the 52 universes. Since the Wildstorm world is now defined as Earth-50, I wonder how the Bleed fits into the multiversal picture.