BW Media Spotlight

I haven’t been following Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths, The promotion was the DC heroes we wanted to see in action being killed off…in a couple of cases again…and the new heroes taking over. Basically it sounded like they were just doing a new take on the Future State concept DC fans had already rejected as the new direction. Either DC creators were hoping to get rid of Superman to have their own Superman Junior without paying the Siegel and Shuster estates or get their gay Superman replacement in there without any work (ruining any chance of the young Jon Kent we wanted back, as if there was a chance DC would correct that mistake) to make the character famous. Because it’s just the name Superman we all like, not the character. Right?

So I go to YouTube to look up videos for the article I decided to do today, which should probably be a two-parter anyway, and one of the recommendations is the following video from Thinking Critical about how this latest bout of Eventitis is going to end, with potentially a new DC Universe. I’ll save that plan for next week because we should probably talk about this “Dawn Of The DCU”, and what it means for the universe that got me into comics as a kid only to be disappointed as an adult with their new darkness and propaganda laden directions. So is this the DC 4 or another DC 3.X, like the Rebirth event? Will it hold? Are these the people we want in charge? I’ll go over these questions once the video sets the stage.

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