User blog:Thor2000/The DC Database and I

I joined the DC Database in February 2007. A very nice person known as Copycat989 was pleased with my light corrections and contributions asked me to contribute and expand on the mythological characters to have been featured in its pages. This was something I was interested in doing. I have studied mythology and ancient history for years. However, during my trials and tribulations and lack of respect from the Marvel Appendix editors, I quickly learned two things: one, people don’t like mythology, and two, the other Appendix characters were obviously taking me granted. So, to work on anything where I might be finally appreciated, I created many of the bios for the mythological beings to appear in the DC universe. The only problem I had was that I was not really up on the details of the DC Universe. Unlike the Marvel Universe which had a strong consecutive universe and continuity, the DC Universe was often controlled and constantly being re-written and changed an altered by its writers and publishers. Crisis was supposed to fix that, but they changed it again, and again, and again and again… As a writer myself, I’ll tell you, this was not the way you treated a universe no matter how fictional. The Marvel Universe has had just as many cosmic events, but none of them refined its history, and if it did, those tangents were allocated to other realities. I’m not a fan of bad plot points like that. I don’t know if the DC Universe has a sliding timescale as the MU, but I’ve always read the DC Universe as one continuity with new revelations and insights becoming revealed so often, which makes more sense than trying to make sense of the who Golden Age, Silver Age, Pre-Crisis, Post Crisis nonsense. You either think of it as a universe, or you think of it as a fictional continuity of loosely-overlapping stories. It’s your choice.