UltimateSMfan

Seconded and cry a lot and try and get some last pussy cause it's over for me. :)

How about a story where the multiverse was created by the sword by accident and it has spent all this time trying to repair the damage it caused.

Superman created the sword in the previous universe but being indestructible it survived the end of his universe and destabilized the next one in the cycle of big bang, big crunch, entropy field, repeat. When superman rejected the sword, off panel it broke apart. its hilt becoming what has kept Kamandi's timeline from vanishing like all the others. Each separate universe has a fragment of the original sword blade. Collect each of these and go back to the entropy field, use the sword's power to stop the big bang. "Tomorrow has been cancelled!"

Originally, before the 1937 comic books started, when the sword showed up in the entropy field the quantum vibrations that go through space were stopped. What had been an almost infinitely complex pattern was stopped dead. The universe that came from it was now overly simplistic. Add a simple time-travel paradox and it explodes into equally simplistic universes with simple waveform vibrations to separate them. Vibrate at a frequency of 1 hertz, 2 Hertz, 3 billion megahertz, etc. and there you have your dimensional walls. Every 'crisis' event after that was the universe trying to recover the original waveform pattern.

Now, with superman stopping every vibration at the big bang, it never happens and he simply waits for "the presence' to do what needs to be done. "Just listen" is the answer and as He is told to hold the sword and point it at the entropy field, letting the swords power flow through his mind and into the field. He then hears 'music' for lack of a better word and the energy makes the entropy field match this waveform. It is far too complex for even his mind to grasp, yet it becomes the vibrational pattern for the multiverse. When it is done, the sword's power is used up and it disintegrates.

A new multiverse with new rules. Earth Prime is a perfect copy of our earth, all the other DC comics are there, a gateway to the Marvel universe's dimension with their copy of the earlier DC multiverse. Even the simplistic Pre-crisis Earth is represented - for those who just can't live without that 1950's type storytelling. Even a universe where they know they are represented by a comic book. But it is perfectly clear - the comics DO NOT control the multiverse - they are just parallel. The comics will always tell the stories perfectly accurately from now on - but they don't control the outcomes. Neither do the universes control the comics. Perfectly parallel.

I was hoping Superman would get to see Lana as Superwoman and it was neat for Jurgens to touch upon what was happening in Superwoman. Acknowledging in universe continuity threads amongst other comics is a treat for continuity fans like myself. Although I'm still sceptical about the age difference between Pre Flashpoint Lois and New 52 Lois, I guess it has to be overlooked now Lois is going back to work at The Daily Planet. It shouldn't take away from Lois' motherly moments with Jon and keeping Lois solely as a housewife isn't Lois' style. Lastly, it's pretty obvious Jon beating Clark in a race is nothing game changing in terms of power levels. Clark wasn't seriously racing anyway and he was probably expressing surprise that Jon may have been faster than he was at Jon's age. Not to mention that Jon was running and Kryptonians move faster when flying. Plus adult Kryptonians tend to be more powerful than younger Kryptonians.