For over a decade, the publisher had limited itself to a cosy 52 earths, contrasting with Marvel Comics’ positively decadent system of infinite parallel worlds. And while DC Comics might flirt with the idea of maintaining a single timeline for a decade or so, staff at the original superhero publisher have always drifted back to the editorial freedom of the multiverse - as they should, since it was DC Comics writers and editors who first linked parallel earths with superheroes in the first place.Īnd in 2020, DC Comics shook up the multiverse in a big way. Specifically, the infinite earths of the DC Comics multiverse.Īn interconnected web of parallel earths is such a standard of superhero comics it made it all the way to the big screen in Avengers: Endgame, and will get top billing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. While others celebrate Earth Day with praise for the singular Earth, we like to sing the praises of infinite earths. Here at Polygon, we refuse to be limited in our affections.
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