DC Finally Makes Sense of 80 Years of Continuity & Crises in New Book
One of the things DC Comics is best known for is its long history of relaunching their comics universe through a series of major «crises,» dating back to 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths, making characters' continuities a true minefield to navigate through. However a new book by Randall Lotowycz, The DC Book of Lists, published by DC Comics, attempts to explain 80+ years of confusing continuity and crises, all through a series of lists.
DC Comics have never shied away from rebooting their universe, but what makes their newest Infinite Frontier era so interesting is that it has established that all prior crises and continuities actually happened, and were basically real-time «reboots» of their universe. In the recent Dark Crisis #0 FCBD Special Editionissue a group of children are touring the museum at the Hall of Justice, where there is photographic evidence of the Justice League teams from each prior era of the DC Universe, which makes The DC Book of Lists all the more important now, because fans actually need to know what has happened in prior timelines!
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1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths redefined the entire DC Universe and franchise, and since then the concept of the DC Multiverse has been warped multiple times, first established as a massive unending multiverse, and then being condensed into one single universe, before being split into 52 universes during The New 52. Now, in Infinite Frontier, the Multiverse is endless once again, but the Great Darkness is coming and the Justice League has just been killed, leading into the next major event Dark Crisis. According to DC Comics Randall Lotowycz's book The DC Book of Lists is 250+ page guide to
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