Compendium of Accumulated Knowledge

The Maitlands

Lydz

“... and let me tell you something; if I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have had my little accident.”

Just picking up some essentials.

Beetlejuice and his pal Lydia in the Neither Realm

Head spin

I may make him puke later.

Life, death & the multiverse and how it applies to continuity ... we have witnessed the effects that “crises” have on a comic universe in DC time and time again.  Nothing beats recycling the story of Earth 3′s Crime Syndicate of America every 3 to 5 years because ... why not remake, revamp and rehash everything old? Well, now the Marvel Universe has put their own spin on it.  Why? I don’t know.  Most Marvel characters don’t stay dead.  But now there has been a marrying of multiverses in which Marvel’s long treasured and terribly confusing continuity has been given a much needed clean slate just like the DC Universe. Having said that, the DCU’s clean slate lasts for such brief periods before various second string characters either remember the pre-crisis world or run into an antagonist who remembers the pre-crisis world.

Marvel’s take is a little more complex than a reboot because it features guest appearances from other Universes like Ultimate Spiderman (from the Ultimate Universe as opposed to a Spider-man who ranks above Mega, Ultra & Extreme Spider-man). Also there is Old Man Logan, various Gwen Stacys and the “All New” X-Men.  You know how before Storm, Wolverine and Nightcrawler joined the X-Men there was the “First Class” team of X-men?  Well, that’s the All New X-Men.