Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!ittatc!bunker!allen From: allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Jayembee Reviews Message-ID: <940@bunker.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 15:55:13 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.940 Posted: Mon Aug 19 15:55:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:53:28 EDT Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 27 > LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #16 [DC, $1.25] C- > > Nicely done as it stands. There's a major problem with the whole > idea, though. Considering the time-flux problems shown in CRISIS, it would > have seemed more reasonable for Brainy to be upset over Kara's *recent* death > rather than the 1000-year anniversary of her death. After all, what is so > significant about it being a thousand years? Was the 999th anniversary less > of a hurt? And since the 30th Century has known about Kara's death for 1000 > years, they must have known about the Crisis for all that time. Why then, > were they so surprised when its effects manifested themselves? Why was Dawn- > star surprised by the appearance of Harbinger? It seems to me that DC is implying that Braniac 5/"the 30th Century" did NOT know about the Crisis because "previously" it HADN'T happened before. A similar situation would be Thanos' interference in the timeline of Warlock/Magus; time was simply modified. Thus, the news of Kara's death would only now have been "propagated" to the 30th Century. I haven't considered what other ramifications this idea might have. Then again, there was a somewhat cryptic mention in Flash (around #346 or so; I didn't buy the book) about the "Orion conflagration" (I believe it was called) having disrupted the records of the 20th Century. (I assume this referred to Crisis.) -- Back on the freeway, which is already in progress, Allen Grabert (...ittatc!bunker!allen)