Thread:Lucien61/@comment-24845073-20140727202116/@comment-24845073-20140729002346

It sure doesn't sound like Zero Hour helped fix those Post-Crisis plotholes, and in fact it sounds like there were less plotholes before Zero Hour. It does sound a bit odd the Hawkman and Aquaman of New Earth didn't officially appear until 1989, but I took it as a priority thing; Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman all got updates within a year of Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 likely because they were among the most popular and best selling characters; Hawkman and Aquaman, maybe not quite so much. Plus it may have went back and forth whether or not to just let the Earth-One versions stay.

Yeah; I just didn't get the whole appearance of Earth-Two Batman and Earth-One Batman. Earth-Two Batman died, and since during Crisis history was rewritten at the beginning of time, he never existed thus couldn't be pulled out of the past, and Earth-One Batman turned into New Earth Batman I thought; Dark Knight Returns Batman was in that crossover too; Not sure what his status was at the time; It did sort of seem like New Earth's Batman was heading for that future when Joker killed Jason Todd, but that was likely scrapped if they were ever considering it.

As for new readers; I was a new reader once like all of us, but yeah some new readers complain when it's unnecessary. To be honest I don't quite understand the point of Earth-2; The original still has appeal to me because it's set in a "bygone era" while Post Crisis Earth-2 is set in modern times. I sort of have to question the point.