What exactly is the history of the characters of the DCU anymore?
There!
I said it!
The elephant in the room that nobody really seems to want to address.
After Infinite Crisis, I have absophrockinglutely no idea what is and what is not canon and quite frankly, it does effect my ability to enjoy a given story.
It would have almost been easier to have suffered a 100% reboot of the DCU after Infinite Crisis if there at least had been some kind of overriding editorial vision but like so much of collaborative fiction, that really didn't happen.
Now I'm not saying that the Post-Crisis On Infinite Earths DCU had a cohesive vision.
No. That took a bit to build up after 1986 but it did seem to gel relatively well by 1990 or so.
Hell... even the Legion, with all the post-Crisis rebooting, still made more sense to me than much of what has come after Infinite Crisis.
Now I will admit that my pre-2002 habit of buying a ton of weekly books has stopped for some time now. The value of spending $3.00+ on 3-4 minutes worth of read each issue really couldn't be justified at all anymore.
And after Infinite Crisis, both Giga and I really curtailed pretty much everything we bought on a monthly basis to about 3-4 books max.
Because of that, I have had to live vicariously through so many comics bloggers' reviews to even begin to have an idea of what the DC Universe is even like anymore.
But honestly, I don't think it would have mattered if I had bought every post-Infinite Crisis DC comic or not.
There just doesn't seem to be any attempt at a cohesive whole any more regardless of what books one follows.
My rambling train of thought now moves forward and maybe, if you've started to read Paper Crack, you can either point me in the right direction of some blogger that can answer my questions or some source of meaningful data.
