Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Super-heroes and Earth-Prime Message-ID: <3722@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 12:32:56 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3722 Posted: Sat Aug 17 12:32:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 07:11:11 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 39 > From: kwc@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) >> eat it too. Earth-Prime is supposed to be "our" universe, and there just >> aren't any (nor *can* there be) any super-heroes in our universe. When I >> >> --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) > > Sorry, but around issue 154 of Justice League of America it was shown > that Earth-Prime unfortunately can have super-heroes. Our first was a guy > named Ultraa who was rocketed to Earth-Prime from a distant planet and was > raised in the wilds of Australia. > [...] > Anyway, Ultraa realized that Earth-Prime wasn't set up to handle the > destruction generated by fights between super-powered people and decided to > go to Earth-One with the JLA to live out his days in peace in Earth-One's > Australia. This lasted about twenty issues and he showed up again. > So, Earth-Prime can have super-heroes (and villians) but I don't > remember reading in the newspapers about the destruction caused to New York > City by the battle mentioned above, except in the JLA comic. Did you people > in New York decide to keep it to yourselves? Yes, I realize that Earth-Prime *has* had super-beings in the past, but that doesn't change my opiniion that it *shouldn't*. Actually, I'm going back on what I said earlier about my not liking the Earth-Prime concept. It's not that I don't like it, hell, even as a kid, I used to have the same fantasy --- that the various fictional worlds we read about are actually other universes that the writer somehow "taps into". This concept *as such* is not a problem. I just don't like the way DC writers have been handling it. I don't mind so much that there is travel between universes. If Superman travels to Earth- Prime, that's cool, but what should happen is that his powers should vanish, since they are against the laws of physics in *our* universe. If they aren't against the physical laws of Earth-Prime, then Earth-Prime can't be *our* universe. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA