Thread:Tupka217/@comment-40161877-20190910195853/@comment-1038387-20190910200649

When John reappeared in Brightest Day, he was a young John, not pushing sixty like his Vertigo counterpart, who aged in real time. IIRC, it was established at the time that Brightest Day John was an explicitly different John. The only thing the two Johns have in common is the Swamp Thing appearances. It was decided that they should be split; technically, a lot of the pages probably need to be moved to (Vertigo Universe) but we never came to it.

The Vertigo Universe also encompasses things like Sandman and Lucifer and is much like New Earth with many of its characters, except a little different in that it ignores major events and major events ignore it. It survived Flashpoint for.