How can it be catering to the old guys if DC's returning to a fictional structure that worked for a vastly superior number of readers for 70 years prior to CRISIS, with everything neatly explained by the Multiple Earths theory? I mean, DC had a limitless canvas for story-telling with the Multiple Earths, and decided to crush all that together and create a nightmare of continuity problems that the company has yet to recover from, and it only took them twenty-two years to figure it out.

...70 years prior to CRISIS...

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uhh...what?

Uhh, you're hedging over 20 years. Why not argue the statement, then point out it's 50 instead of 70? Like that makes a damn.

Well, if the Superman who lifted the car was retroactively the Superman of Earth 2, then we are talking the totality of DC up to that point. Readers weren't "aware" they were reading Superman of Earth 2, nor writers/artists telling tales of same, but DC made it plain with two Flashes on the same cover that that was the case. 

The Multiverse was there, and like Delbert Grady it had always been there. Comics pros merely gave it a name. And it worked. Infinite worlds, infinite alternate histories, infinite story possibilities traded in to become "like Marvel". To go from a Multiverse to a series of retcons ripped the heart out of those shining DC icons. And not just once.

Hmm... Marvel of the 70's...

I guess there are a lot of worse goals a company could make.

I loved Marvel of the 70's.

Brad Hague wrote:

QUOTE: I loved Marvel of the 70's.

So did I. :-)

John Byrne wrote: Marvel of the 70s, perhaps.

How so? I, too, have fond (albeit nostalgiac) memories of that decade of Marvel-dom.

EDIT: After reading my comment, I realized that one could infer that I thought your comment was a pejorative one. I'm not assuming that--just wanted to make myself clear.