Years ago, one thing common in comics has been to take a concept, and to use it again, because the comics would apply the theory of “cycle” of comics sales, which suggests refresh your audience every few years, because a group of aged readers and a new group of readers have started.
So you would have these interesting things where, if you will come back and read a series of a comic strip, you would see the same story made, just with different writers from the different writers. This is what is so fascinating The new history of the DC universeIn that it is really fair The history of the DC universe By Marv Wolfman and George Perez, just, you know again, again, with forty years of more DC history, and a much more developed examination of the continuity of the DC universe by Mark Waid. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, it is simply interesting to review the format (complete art with legends, as opposed to panels and dialogue). This, Though, really is a richer approache, as the original and the up being more about the George Pérez Art More Than Anything (and Get Get Me Wrong, The Pérez Art is Freaking Gorgeous), and the story details are a bit more, well, detailed in this story (Again, Wolfman was doing a different thing with his story, as it was intentionally More streamlined, as he was trying to make forty years of continuity revamps fit Together inside the framework of a story, he just told the story for the first time).
The new history of the DC universe # 1 is the writer Mark Waid, artists Jerry Ordway and Todd Nauck, colorists John Kalisz and Matt Herms, and the Todd Klein letter, and he uses the encyclopedic knowledge of Waid in DC history to help find a great unified theory of the DC universe when it exists in 2025, and it is absolutely fascinating.
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The idea behind history is for Barry Allen, who is no longer the fastest living man, to sit and write the history of the DC universe as far as he has observed his many trips through time. This allows him to have much more access to information than anyone alive, so when he says something, he means it.
Waid begins with the cosmic side of the DC universe before calming in particular the history of the earth. What is interesting is, to begin with, that a large part of the DC universe is always about the same as forty years ago. It is honestly an incredible thing to say, because the universes of comics are known to constantly change things, but a large part of the foundation of the DC universe has been the same since at least, let’s say, let’s say, let’s say, let’s say, let’s say, let’s say, let’s say, let’s say, Hour h.
However, very often, there are really contradictory versions of the story, and this is where Waid must use his lively spirit as an excellent comic book storyteller to be able to understand what version of the story that should be told. And I’m going to be honest, some of these stories over the years are awkwardly combine, but Waid makes them work as well as possible.
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How did Mark Waid put history?
Along the way, Waid makes a number of interesting retorts in history. Many of them are built around the fact that things are open with the history of the universe in terms of the Society of Justice linked to the Second World War since the 1980s, and therefore, therefore, since “normal” heroes can no longer have made its debut in 1960, it is a lot of time that must be taken into account.
I will be frank, I am not a fan of counting these shortcomings, because time will always change, and you will always have more shortcomings to take into account, but I certainly cannot say that Waid does not do an absolutely remarkable job to fill these shortcomings. For example, he presents a new team, justice alliance, to fill the gap for not having a superhero team in the 1950s. Like Roy Thomas with the What if …? Avengers (which Kurt Busiek then established a final team in history Avengers forever), Waid goes to the heroes of the 1950s real to create the team. It’s very intelligent.
Todd Nauck and Jerry Ordway do a very good job to evoke George Pérez without trying to be George Pérez. As you can see, pages are a series of daring splashes, mainly half a page. Nauck and Ordway both have a classic superhero style which allows great attention to detail, so that it can work very well for future references for other artists.
The biggest problem in the history of DC probably linked to various characters is that there are so many golden age characters who had no “inherited” versions of themselves, so how to take them into account of the stories and the teams where they were major parts of history? Superman and Batman were mainly absent from the team’s books, but many other heroes of the golden age were not, so how do you explain that? The result with Green Arrow and Speedy is that they were sent in time to make their golden age adventures. I believe that Geoff Johns had this idea, but Mark Waid used it here. However, John Byrne tried something like that with Hippolyta to give Justice Society of America a wonderful woman, while Scott Snyder briefly teased the idea of Wonder Woman inspiring justice Society and that she is just timeless, and here, Waid decides to go with Hippolyte as the wonder of women of the 40s, but without the element of time. means that she preceded Diana as a wonderful woman. I don’t know if I like it, exactly, but it shows how difficult it is to succeed, and really, it does a job as anyone could do.
We are not going to always agree with what he decides, but I know everything he chooses, he has thought about it a lot, and, honestly, what could we really ask that a guy who knows a lot of DC history and puts a lot of reflection in these decisions? The final result is a really fascinating reading with a number of great attempts to smooth everything, and then there is a little at the end where it refers to the different stories, and I like that, as, really, it is what looks like the story should really be celebrating the big universe that it is.
Source: DC Comics