Yesterday we looked at the first four generations of the new DC Timeline, a timeline that was already created around Rebirth to make up for the lack of any consistency in the New 52 period. However, DiDio and the gang have shown little interest in a definite timeline, which they proved when Brian Michael Bendis, who has never cared about continuity, was brought in. And yet you have Grant Morrison, who wants everything to be canon whether it makes sense or not. I see this not going well.
However you may have noticed the math is a bit funny here. By my count there is about 60 years worth of events between the four generations. However, World War II, which now happened after Wonder Woman’s debut so she can be the world’s first superhero rather than the cause of her becoming one in the first place, didn’t happen 60 years ago. In fact all three of the Trinity of the DCU–Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman–have themselves been around longer than 80 years. So what’s going to fill that gap?
Well, at this point we’re running on rumors and I’m not necessarily happy about that. ScreenRant has our rumored answers for what the Fifth Generation, the 5G–which may already show that DC is now owned by a phone company–of the title of this new continuity, has in store. Since this is rumor to my best knowledge I’m treating this more as a thought experiment in case DC wises up (good luck with that) and isn’t going this route, but it’s a path rife with questions and blunders.
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