the fuck is it
HyperCrisis
Daniel Mitchell
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Adrian Gray
A method of reading comics that assumes there is a metanarrative to most of Grant Morrison's bibliography that may or may not be intentional, and may or may not apply to cape comics as a whole, depending on how frisky you're feeling.
Adam Bailey
wut
Nolan Morgan
It's a method of reading comics, mostly DC though Marvel does have some theories about it, that relies heavily on paranoia and pop cultural apophenia.
Another way of putting it, applying Kabbalah to Capeshit.
Wyatt Hernandez
That’s probably the clearest and most concise answer you’re going to get.
Andrew Bailey
I'm just going to dump all my Hypercrisis images and hope he gets it.
Jacob Lopez
Bring back hypertime
Kayden Parker
Samuel Ward
Mason Walker
Colton Myers
keep them coming user
Adrian Anderson
Luis Bell
Sebastian Jackson
Michael Cruz
Dominic Sanchez
Charles Martin
Hypercrisis, as observed from the outside.
Ryder Gray
Nathan Watson
That's all I've got.
Daniel Moore
good stuff user
why don't we have threads about this anymore?
Jacob Lopez
and the magic of the meta narrative helps the fiction bleed into the real world.
Brayden Martin
Rebirth gave it a shot in the arm, but when that wound down and started dragging ass, it kinda killed any overarching narrative theorization.
Also I found a few more in another folder.
Jordan Flores
This might be my favorite.
Xavier Scott
Here's another good one.
Consider the Tiger Force. It's at the Heart Of All Things, apparently, kind of like Kingdom Hearts.
And also like Kingdom Hearts, almost no one understands what it actually fucking is.
Brody Long
Don't know how that one got spoilered.
Adam Morris
Justin Wright
Remember reading Multiversity, and how Kamandi and Atomic Knight Batman were both looking for the Rose that Blooms In Winter?
And how that sounded cool as fuck, but wasn't exactly clear what it was?
Logan Lee
Someone figured it out on a piece of scratch paper they pulled out of the trash.
Jeremiah Turner
Have one that you can read.
Jeremiah Lewis
The hypercrisis of Final Crisis even bled to 2chan.
William Bailey
HyperCrisis is Jack the Ripper becoming god at the end of From Hell and then showing up as god in Doom Patrol despite the Red Jack chapters being written before the ending of From Hell.
Joshua Gomez
Luis Mitchell
What role does Yea Forums, and for that matter sites like reddit and tumblr, play in the Hypercrisis? Are we its agents or does our cynicism make it weaker?
Jose Torres
Jacob Evans
Six of one, Half a dozen of the other.
Dominic Miller
>“The medium does things to people. And they’re always completely unaware of this. They don’t really notice the new medium that is roughing them up. They think of the old medium because the old medium is always the content of the new medium. As movies are tend to be the content of TV, and as books used to be the content—novels used to be the content—of movies.”
>— Marshall McLuhan
John Nguyen
The Rose is also a Dark Tower by Stephen King reference. The Dark Tower in the series is the center point of reality, where the "beams" that hold up reality converge. Different universes are referred to as "different levels of the Tower". The Tower is saught after by a Gunslinger-Knight from a post apocalyptic wasteland world similar to the Atomic Knight Batman.
"The Rose" is a manifestation of the Dark Tower that only exists in the Prime/Real Earth of that setting, and acts as it's avatar, it never dies and is last seen growing in the lobby of a black skyscraper in NYC 1999.
Morrison calls his reference "The Rose That Grows In Winter" which is a combination of the Rose and the fact that the Tower itself is in the center of a rose-field in the center of a winter tundra.
The Dark Tower series is hypercrisis as fuck on it's own because it already seals with the fact that all fiction is another world's reality by folding almost all of Stephen King's previous works into it. The priest from Salem's Lot is a main character and is aware of his books existence. The main characters themselves find out they are characters in Stephen King's writing eventually. The monster from IT is referenced as coming from Dark Tower bullshit, you even see another one of Pennywise's kind in the series. The series even does the same thing Multiversity does at the end with the Empty Hand sending everyone back to how they were at the start, but with a little more knowledge.
Grayson Green
>how they were at the start, but with a little more knowledge.
I still don't understand what Roland having a horn is supposed to help any in the next go around.
Jackson Clark
Hypercrisis hits a lot of topics but I'll post some key points and me and other anons can elaborate on whatever you're interested in
>Superman as modern day ubermensch
>Superman exists as part of our DNA
>Comics as a pocket universe
>Comic book multiversal portals
>Concepts as higher beings
>Comic books as a living creature
>Comic book adaptability
>Continuity as a form of evolution
>Characters are actually themes/archetypes
>Thoughtforms and their egos
I'm sure there's more to it but those topics I know the most about
Xavier King
>[X]Superman exists as part of our DNA
Evan Rivera
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The theory is that humanity is best represented as a 4 dimensional organism. Instead of made up of individuals, we exist as part of a larger thing that is hard to comprehend from the inside (due to our perception of time). This organism uses things such as instinct and subconscious influence in order to develop. This relates to the ubermensch topic as well. In All-Star Superman #10 we see Superman create a new universe, Earth Q. On Earth Q we see ancient societies worship the sun, Pico de la Mirandola suggesting we become the angels of fiction, Nietzche writing of the ubermensch, and Superman comics being created. The idea here is that humanity as a whole creates imaginary figures that are supposed to represent the ideal human, specifically in order to imitate that ideal. That basic drive to do better is part of the same DNA that created the angels of fiction and Superman.
Carson Nelson
We know that the Many Worlds Interpretation necessitates that all things exist in every possible state. (The coin is heads here and tails somewhere else). Thus, any fiction we can conceive of is an account of real events in a place "somewhere". The questions this begs are: what causes certain realities to reveal themselves to someone's imagination? What causes certain realities to "congeal" into the order of events that they do and not other ones in our singular fictional account of a universe when any permutation of an order of events is possible? Are these two preceding questions drawing illusory conclusions from universes which cannot actually interact yet can imagine each other?
The only thing that I can say with certainty is that All Existence MUST be composed of an asymmetrical geometry. A perfectly symmetrical reality would lack internal differentiation. Its not as if the rules of mathematics or logic could be different in another universe. Differing Geometries which give rise to different laws of physics is the only solution that can explain why not only other universes exist but why any universes exist at all.
Adam Young
It's a sign that he's going to be a better man this time. One worthy of the tower. He was supposed to have the horn and his guns to truly take the Tower. He carelessly left the horn behind previously, distracted by Cuthbert's death, and his focus on his mission. It's implied that this time he'll make better choices like not letting Jake drop so he can catch The Man in Black and further his mission to the Tower in the first book.
That's what I took from it anyways and what people I've talked to about it think as well.
Gavin Evans
Hypercrisis doesn't require Many Worlds (a theory, nowhere near fact) to operate, but it helps.
>Many Worlds is true
We exist on Earth Prime, within a 3D DC Universe
>Many Worlds is not true
We exist on the other side of the Source Wall/Bleed, DC Universe is 2D
Uniting these two is like the comic book theory of everything.
Camden Davis
A good analogy of different geometry-dependent physics can be demonstrated by wavelengths of light. Wavelengths are undeniably geometric and we can see that they create very different effects.
Ryan Diaz
So though humans falter, Humanity struggles ever upward.
Until we can join him in the Sun.
Anthony Perez
I had a couple cases where an idea I had for a comic actually happened. One of which sucked as it was the love interest coming back into the main character's life only for him to realize she was involved with another older man.
Adam Peterson
> as free to play mobile games used to be the content of comics
Batman in Fortnite when?
Cameron Butler
Oh wait. We're halfway there.
Ethan Lewis
>We know that the Many Worlds Interpretation necessitates that all things exist in every possible state. (The coin is heads here and tails somewhere else). Thus, any fiction we can conceive of is an account of real events in a place "somewhere".
I know that this isn't the point, but it really annoys me whenever I see interpretations of "many worlds theory" and various other scientific concepts that are so grossly oversimplified.
No, not every fiction has to necessarily be representative of another reality. Those realities still have to follow SOME set of physical laws, even if it's entirely distinct from ours.
There can exist a world where the laws of physics permit teleporting, mind reading, shapeshifing, reality bending aliens to happen.
And we know that a reality with humans can exist.
But there doesn't necessarily exist one where both can exist, because they depend on entirely different spatial and temporal physics.
Jacob Jackson
Someone has the one where people relate "The Bleed" with menstruation?
Ryan Long
Retard.
Cameron Nguyen
How is this different than just saying all the stories share a single universe? which we knew already, because of all the crossovers, JL stories, etc.
John Russell
Fellas, is he gonna be the one to catalyze Hypercrisis? DC's been teasing his return for a few years now unless I missed it already