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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: Super-heroes and Earth-Prime
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Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 12:32:56 EDT
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> 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)

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