User blog comment:SHTR/A possible way to handle the DCnU and the Original DCU/@comment-4471669-20110924023246

@Midoki24

Ah, but there were plenty of examples of both after the Crisis on the Infinite Earths 25 years ago, too. Wally West, Dick Grayson (hell, most Titans), the Green Lanterns and many villains, like Kanjar Ro, Darkseid, and Flash's Rogues all escaped the end of the Silver Age with hardly any major changes. So would you say that the GLC is STILL the Silver Age GLC, since their history didn't change too much after Crisis in '86 - or now after Flashpoint?

I still have a couple hundred comics from those years, and fans back then were basically having the same debate as we are right now. I was too young back then to be involved in the debate - I just thought things like Man of Steel and Batman: Year One were awesome at the time. But, damn, did my Uncles ever fight about it, hahaha.

Heck Identity Crisis referenced more than a couple events from Earth One, which we now know (but only after Infinite Crisis) that New Earth was NOT.

Remember, the in-universe justification for the 1986 reboot was basically the same as now: Flashpoint and the Crisis on Infinite Earths both altered history substantially. Especially the A-List Characters, but not so much with everyone else. From 1986 all the way until Infinite Crisis it was assumed that "New Earth" was good old Earth One, but with history changed by the Anti-Monitor and the collapse of the multiverse. The term New Earth wasn't even used until 2007. It was just Earth up until then.

But I won't change anything unless the community as a whole decides to do so. I am pretty sure though that we aren't in Kansas any more, even with many things remaining the same. We'll see as time goes on.

~Mi