In my opinion, it’s playing way less stupidly than it sounds. I’m sure 15 people will be right along to tell me I’m wrong, but I’ve liked it. Same with Bucky’s return in Captain America. Against all odds, it’s worked.
You’re right.
It’s very well done, and in keeping with the themes and concepts the DCU’s been using forever. (In fact, it’s far better than any other option people are coming up with to explain how Jason came back.)
I agree actually. I was being kind of silly before.
Less silly version (Infinite Crisis Spoilers): [spoiler]At the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alex Luthor, the golden-age Superman and Lois Lan, and Superboy-Prime escape into a pocket universe, which is some kind of temporal nexus.
Once in there, SB and Luthor start to go a bit strange. Luthor never had a childhood, and there’s no one for SB to talk to or do except watch his world die on replay over and over again. One day he flips out and starts pounding on the walls of his cosmic prison, and Luthor discovers the reality formed by the Crisis was incomplete, and the pounding causes the rough edges of history to be smoothed over. Thus, depending on your point of view, causing or resolving all the post-crisis retcons and errors. [/spoiler]
I like that they’ve got an in universe explanation for continuity changes. They’re gonna happen anyway, no matter how careful the editors are. Then again, I’m a continuity anarchist, and I was apparently the only guy that liked hypertime, their previous attempt at this concept, so take my word for what it’s worth.
Superboy: aw. Cheer up, emo kid.
(This goes through my head every time I hear about this. Every. Single. Time.)
If you mean Daniel Hall, son of Hector and Lyta Hall, he made a brief appearance in one of the Infinite Crisis titles to get his parents out of the Dreaming and vanish (DC has pretty much blanket-banned any Vertigo characters from appearing in IC or OYL, and the Endless characters tend to get used really sparingly in the main DCU anyways).
Anyways, Daniel and Morpheus aren’t really what you’d call costumed superheroes… 
As far as I know, Deadman has stayed pretty dead.
I mean if he didn’t, it would kind of ruin the character.
I don’t see any mention of Daniel in that post. The references to his predecessor as Dream and his father are both correct.
Morpheus is, indeed, dead, and going to stay that way.
Hector is also dead, currently. Probably Matthew-Dead, given Daniel’s appearance, and the fact that he and Lyta apparently made a deal. But dead, and in an afterlife. (By all indications, they weren’t in the Dreaming when Daniel showed up. Unless Daniel’s more malicious than he seems.)
That’d be a good answer, if Deadman weren’t excluded by name in the OP.
Sorry, I’m probably wrong on this. I thought the line of succession went from Morpheus to Daniel directly, but I think I’m mistaken…?
Annnnnnd a check on Wikipedia reveals that Hector was, indeed, once the Sandman. Man, I’m eating a lot of humble pie tonight… :smack:
Now I’m lost…
Yes, Daniel took over as Dream straight from Morpheus.
He was Morpheus ‘heir’, for want of a better word because he was gestated, mostly, within the Dreaming, while Hector was the Sandman. Heck died before Daniel was born, then reborn as the most recent Dr Fate, now he’s dead again.
I’m not sure how either of these points is contradictory to the other…
epiphany
Or do you not read JSA and you didn’t know Hector and Lyta were ALIVE again (until Spectre murdered them)?
There’s actually 3 different (but related) Sandman legacies.
There’s the ‘Sandman’ - Dream of the Endless. First Morpheus, then Daniel.
There’s the Sandman - Wesley Dodds, who had prophetic dreams thanks to a connection to Morpheus. His former sidekick Sanderson Hawkins (AKA Sandy the Golden Boy, AKA Sand) has taken over his prophetic dreams, but not specifically the name.
Then there’s Brute and Glob’s Sandmen - Garret Sanders, Hector Hall, and Sanderson Hawkins (for about 2 issues of JSA).
AAAAH.
Okay, your latest post sorted it out. ‘Endless’ Sandman goes from Morpheus to Daniel, and Brute and Glob’s Sandman goes to Hector Hall, who’s the father of Daniel, so it all works out.
deep breath, exhale
Ah. good, good.
So if Hector Hall is dead, who is Dr. Fate now?
(I’m sorry, but I will NEVER fully understand the Hawkman/Hawkgirl/Gaiman Sandman/Dr. Fate/Silver Scarab/Fury/Wonder Woman legacy.)
[Guy in commercial] “I’m so confuuuuused!” [/GIC]
Currently there is no Dr Fate. A new one should be appearing soon enough.
For a short time after Heck’s death, Sand had the helm (although Nabu was doing the driving), and after he took it off, Nabu animated his vestments all on his own, long enough to take down the Spectre (at the cost of his own life). (Or, he kept Spectre busy long enough for God to take attention of him and force him into Crispus Allen.)
What what WHAT? Crispus Allen? The black bald cop from Gotham Central, Renee Montoya’s partner? HE is the new Spectre?
From Grant Morrison’s Zenith series from 2000AD: Maximan {in some universes}, Masterman, Red Dragon, Masterman again. White Heat and Doctor Beat {Zenith’s parents}, Warhead {formerly Doctor Beat}, Vertex {Zenith’s alternate “nice” counterpart}, The Steel Claw and others too numerous to count, Domino.
Yep. Jim Corrigan murdered him about, 3, 4 issued before GC ended. Spectre was forced into him just after he was autopsied. This was in Infinite Crisis 4. (Well, the murder was in GC, the merging in IC4. Spectre, FTR, is a whiner.)
If you’re talking about the Illyana from Exiles, she’s dead too. There’s some speculation that the House of M Illyana may have survived, though.