Mark Gruenwald and Jim Shooter deserve credit for inventing the modern concept of the multiauthor shared universe, though of course the concept traces back to the Arthurian legends, back to the Bible, and millennia before to bardic lore.https://twitter.com/Resist_Disney/status/1010196144104902656 …
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but maybe it's just personal taste. I've noted before that I have a strong preference for archipellagos and astrolabes rather than continents and wagon trails
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1/I think this is an issue with editorial control and direction (the "seed set"), not the concept as such. One could imagine something like a "kernel" (the highest cosmics, the physics, etc.) which was very carefully built and _almost never_ changed, then rings around it, with
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2/strict rules (supported by databases) for verifying a story maintained overall continuity -- but uh people Joe Quesada has not implemented such a structure for whatever reason.
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have you read the recent DC Metal minseries? Do you know what I'm referring to when I say "the source wall"? Geoff Johns and Dan DiDio have gotten pretty comfortable in playing with their own meta-universal cosmology rules. related: have you read Morrison's Multiversity?
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Yeah, I know about The Source Wall, the Crisis on [X] Earths, Superboy Prime being a jerk and all that stuff - I'm not a DC fan, but you know I do my civic duty! [DC has been hamfisted w/ multiverse changes imo.] *** Have not read Morrison's Multiversity. Worth checking out?
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it's exceptional, as is most of Morrison's work. in the recent Metal event they actually breached the source wall and left it breached. this allowed them to, in-continuity, introduce entirely new mythos worlds into their shared multiversal cosmology
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Holy shit (re source wall breach). Okay, I'll check it out - Morrison is usually worth reading.
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in 2018 DC is _much_ better than Marvel for the first time in a while (imho). really on point with writing, editing, art, and the overall creative direction.
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