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I'll agree with EDE and others. The post-Crisis alamgamated DCU was/is WAY more confusing that the old multiverse ever was. Worst of all, starting in the late 1980s and continuing to this day, we tend to get stories explaining what isnow supposed to have happned in previous stories, instead of any actual NEW stories.
Chrimminey, I'd rather die than read another re-three-retro-do-over-boot of Hawkman.
EASY Fix. Mutliverse. All realities exisit. Now pick a world and tell a story!!!
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Multiverses also have the advantage of being able to tell multiple *styles* of story with, essentially, the same character, as there are more than one Superman, Batman, etc. Instead of having to accept that *the* Batman is the same character as Morrison's 'Batgod,' Morrison could have been handed an 'Ultimate DC' style universe in which to create Batman stories that cater to his own sensibilities, without any risk of messing up the already established Batman of the core universe.
Continuity ceases to be a boondoggle, as well. I would rather read the adventures of the Waid / Kitson Legion and just accept that this is an Elseworlds / What If / Tangent team than try to figure out how the hell the classic Wildfire is related to the Red Tornado, or whether or not Myg is now 'always has been' an older white man, instead of a younger asian or what happened to all those Green Lanterns that used to exist in the 30th century.
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