I’d finished with comics by the end of elementary school, and ignored them through secondary. In university, I found a copy of Marvel’s The Avengers on David Letterman in a bus station and read it. Then I started hearing about things called graphic novels. A nerdy acquaintance kept telling me to read something called The Dark Knight Returns.

As the regular university pressure mounted, I wandered into something called a “comic shop” and picked up Crisis on Infinite Earths #11. DC had been publishing a 12-issue mini-series, you see, that would forever alter their continuity and re-establish their pre-eminence in the comic-book world. Supergirl and the Flash died, along with an apparently infinite number of universes. The series freed DC of past continuity, and paved the way for some pretty good comics.

Twenty years later, DC is dramatically altering their universe once more.

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