elseworlds

The CW revealed a few more details about their next DC superhero crossover today, and they have us wondering if the story being told may not even be canon. We’ve learned the Monitor will actually play a role in the story. This was a central character in DC’s 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries — a story meant to consolidate decades of tangled continuity. By the mid-80s DC was dealing with multiple dimensions of parallel Earths created by generations of writers who each had to bend the rules to tell their own stories. Crisis mashed everything back into one dimension and rebooted the DC universe. (It’s worth noting that many of the decisions made by Crisis have since been undone….the only permanent rule about comics is that NO rule is permanent.) The Monitor was the celestial figure watching over the multiverse. He will be played by LaMonica Garrett. It’s the name of this crossover, revealed today, that makes us wonder: “Elseworlds.” This is the same logo DC uses as the