tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) (08/21/85)
Look, it very clearly says "other-dimensional world". This is a rather unusual phrase and is very unlikely to have been an accident. It was obviously placed there on purpose. DC has nothing against the idea of multiple worlds, it's parallel worlds that screw up continuity. Various other worlds such as the Heaven and Hell in the Swamp Thing annual, the "fifth dimension" of Mr. Mxyzptlk, and Apokolips will still hang around outside the normal space-time of whatever human world is still around at the end of the series. They're being granted status as "other-dimensional worlds" for the standard reason that you need plausible-sounding names for thoroughly implausible concepts. A more interesting topic is the three over-run earths that now hang on the peripheries of Earth-1. A concept similar to many religions' cosmologies may be shaping up here, with a human world, an ice world, a plant world, and a fire world. The whole thing would have a quasi-mystical air if so. It seems like a much better idea than just letting anti-matter consume them.... -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!"