Alongside the debut of Grant Morrison’s Multiversity #1 (major spoilers here), and on the same day that Image Comics The Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen remarked on the Muliversity’s “Dino Cop” parody, DC Comics released a video explaining the multiverse map (massive version is here) that was released around SDCC 2014 tied to Multiversity.
Some surprises include:
- Krypton’s Phantom Zone is part of the Underworld that is across the multiverse’s Skyland.
- Skyland is the seat of the Olympus as well as other pantheons noted.
- Beyond the Source Wall is not a further multiverse, but the Source which is the mysterious source of all creation.
With that, the term “known multiverse” appears to mean simply “the multiverse”.
In addition, as we’ve noted before, The Multiversity appears to be part of a broader plan by DC Comics building to some interesting things in 2015:
- Earth 2: World’ End weekly series along with DC’s two other weeklies – Batman: Eternal and The New 52: Futures End – seemingly set up DC Comics’s Spring 2015 event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the classic Crisis on Infinite Earths. Like with DC’s three weeklies, Morrison’s The Multiversity ends at the same time and would seem to also set up DC’s Crisis-like 2015 event.
However, these books could also be leading into writer Geoff Johns upcoming Darkseid War event (which may be a prelude to this 2015 crisis or be its actual name).
With that, check out DC’s multiversity map easter eggs video. What struck you about it?
Lastly, if you check out DC’s interactive map of the multiverse you’ll see that you can click on certain Earths and they take you to “character” web-pages for each multiverse Earth. There’s only four accessible Earths, so far, via the preceding DC link: Earth 0, Earth 7, Earth 8 and Earth 23; it is strange that Earth 2 isn’t. Stay tuned for more as The Multiversity progresses.
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