Max Mercury
In other news,
there already WAS a sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Animal Man addressed the aftermath and how the Psycho-Pirate was
the only one who remembered it all, locked away in a sanitarium.
A chance to talk about something I actually know about!
Now's a really good time to re-read Grant Morrison's
Animal Man.
Not just for the Crisis elements, but also because once you've understood who the Yellow Aliens are then the 'Seven Mysterious Men' from
Seven Soldiers #0 will make immediate sense.
The thing to watch in
Animal Man is the
animals (no s**t!).
The DC multiverse was created by Gardner
Fox in 'Flash of Two Worlds'
The DC multiverse was destroyed by Marv
Wolfman in 'Crisis'.
The name 'Morrison' translates as
'Son of the Fox'.
Therefore much of
Animal Man can be read as a battle between the pro-monoverse wolves and the pro-multiverse foxes, the agents of "the wolfman" and the agents of 'foxy'...the avatar of childhood innocence with whom the story ends.
Morrison follows William Burroughs in most things and Burroughs wrote at length about how mono-anything (whether it's monotheism, monoculture or monogamy) was morally inferior to multi-anything. It's a theme Warren Ellis has taken directly from Burroughs too, especially in
Planetary and
Transmetropolitan...but when The Son Of The Fox persues this theme he normally does it by attacking
Crisis....
....Through
Animal Man...through
Earth 2...through introducing Hypertime in
JLA and doing backroom conceptual work on
The Kingdom...through a Burroughs-esque examination of the moral effects of a monoverse in
SeaGuy that explictly rips the piss out of
Crisis...
