FFF Results Post #252—Different Places

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Favorite Comics Alternate Universes." This is how they responded.



Vito Delsante

* Earth 2 - Grant Morrison version
* Earth 2 - Original pre-Crisis version (where the JSA was from)
* Days of Future Past Earth
* The Squadron Supreme/Sinister Earth
* Gotham by Gaslight Earth

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Tom Spurgeon

1. The world Maggie imagines at the end of the first volume of Love & Rockets where she goes on the road with Hopey and the band
2. Earth-3 (Home Of The Crime Syndicate Of America)
3. Earth-1228 (Marvel Bullpen Becomes Fantastic Four)
4. The universe Superman imagined with his birthday plant attached to his chest in Superman Annual #11
5. The world shaped by the original Superman Red/Superman Blue in Superman #162

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Michael Buntag

1. The Mesozoic Era where Calvin is a dinosaur on the prowl (Calvin and Hobbes)
2. Precinct 10, Neopolis (Top Ten)
3. The DC Universe imagined by Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier (Sergio Aragones Destroys DC)
4. The Marvel Universe imagined by Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier (Sergio Aragones Massacres Marvel)
5. An America overrun by creepy Chiyo-Chans when Osaka visits (Azumanga Daioh)

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Douglas Wolk

1. "The infant universe of Qwewq" (in various Grant Morrison comics), i.e. the one where we live
2. Earth-86, home to the original Atomic Knights and Kirby's Kamandi and OMAC
3. The alternate universe ruled by Mordru in Legion of Super-Heroes #5 (1989 series)
4. Earth-6 (post-52), seen for a couple of panels in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 3-D #1, in which some kind of Civil War/Secret Invasion mash-up is going on
5. Earth-744, from a couple of Alan Moore stories: home of Captain Airstrip-One, i.e. the Captain Britain of the England of "1984"

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Michael Grabowski

1. The Ti-Girls Adventures universe in Love & Rockets New Stories.
2. The world where Cerebus settles down with Jaka then has an affair with Joanne.
3. The What If? universe where Jane Foster becomes Thor.
4. Spaceman Spiff's universe
5. Amy Racecar's universe

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Uriel A. Duran

1) Little Nemo's Slumberland
2) X-men's Age of Apocalypse
3) Spaceman Spiff's outer space (according to Calvin, of course)
4) The feudal Japan featured in JLA: Shogun Of Steel Elseworlds
5) The Amalgam universe

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Mark Coale

1. Earth-Prime -- home to Julie Schwartz, Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin
2. Earth-X -- Nazis win WWII, Home of Freedom Fighters
3. Earth-S -- home of Fawcett characters in DCU
4. Earth-C-Minus -- home of Justa Lotta Animals in Captain Carrot
5. Marvel Universe with aged FF visited by The Thing in FF Annual 5

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Tom Bondurant

1. Earth-Two (pre-Crisis)
2. Earth-C, home of Captain Carrot and DC's other funny animals
3. The Earth where Bruce Wayne became Batman in 1889 and fought Jack the Ripper (as seen in Gotham By Gaslight and Batman: Master of the Future)
4. Earth-D, home to a more ethnically-diverse set of superheroes, as seen in the Legends of the DC Universe Crisis On Infinite Earths Special
5. The Earth where the Wayne murders were prevented by the Earth-1 Batman and Robin, thereby inspiring young Bruce to become Batman himself (Detective Comics #500)

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Michael May

1. The Victorian-Batman world in Gotham by Gaslight
2. Salgood Sam's grown-up Peanuts universe in Dream Life
3. Neil Gaiman's 1602 version of the Marvel Universe
4. Based on what I've seen so far, DC's Flashpoint universe.
5. Whatever universe the Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon exists in.

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Michael Dooley

1. the Rarebit Fiend's existence as a pen and ink drawing
2. Walt and Skeezix's post-gallery nature walk
3. Fearless Fosdick's Chicago-like city, as created by Lester Gooch
4. Ace Hole's Slumberland
5. Rusty's Mars, as created by William Brown

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Buzz Dixon

1. Whatever world Cerebus inhabits
2. The alternate universe at the end of Rich Corben's "A Dumb Story" in Slow Death no. 3 where the narrator, having seen his friends killed and his planet's culture destroyed by rapacious humans, tells the reader "aren't you glad this is just a dumb story?" before blowing his brains out
3. Errol McCarthy's loving tribute to Reed Crandall's Blackhawk that allowed Blackhawk to die a noble, dignified, heroic death in Slow Death no. 7
4. The funny pages on April 1st, 1997
5. The alt-univ of Marvel's What If no. 11 where the original Marvel bullpen -- Stan, Jack, Flo Steinberg, and Sol Brodsky -- become the Fantastic Four

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John Vest

1. The world where Reed Richards is the Thing, introduced in Fantastic Four #118
2. The earth in the Lee-Kirby Silver Surfer graphic novel from the '70s
3. The Squadron Supreme's world in Avengers #85
4. The alternate reality in Chuck Austen's U.S. War Machine
5. The world of Doom 2099, scripted by Warren Ellis

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Steven Stwalley

1) Beanworld
2) Coconino County
3) The Unifactor
4) The alternate universe Ronald Reagan's head comes from in Ed the Happy Clown
5) Dominion City

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Chad Nevett

1. The Age of Apocalypse
2. Earth 2 (from JLA: Earth 2)
3. The world where Madelyne Pryor was queen and used Nate Greys as weapons (X-Man #67-70)
4. The world where Civil War ended with Iron Man and Captain America talking it out like adults (What If? Civil War #1)
5. The Frank Miller Batverse

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Ali T. Kokmen

1) Earth-2 (the first and best of comicdom's parallel worlds)
2) Zot!'s home dimension
3) The Squadron Supreme's world
4) That timeline from Superman Family #200 were Clark and Lois were married and had a daughter Laura.
5) The not-a-hoax, not-a-what-if, not-an-imaginary-story world where Aunt May became the Herald of Galactus in Marvel Team-Up #137

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Don MacPherson

1) Earth-B - The DC Earth where out-of-continuity stories from The Brave and the Bold and World's Finest Comics were deemed to have been set.
2) The Thrillkiller Elseworlds.
3) The world of Marvel Zombies.
4) The Amalgam Universe.
5) Earth-2. Can't get enough of DC's Golden Age.

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Stergios Botzakis

1. The JLA: The Nail universe
2. Zot's Earth where it's always 1969
3. Wherever Morrison's Marvel Boy limited series took place
4. DC's Earth 3
5. Marvel's Earth 829

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Max Fischer

1. Bizarro World
2. Zooniverse
3. The Fifth Dimension
4. The enclosed continuity of Kyle Baker's Plastic Man
5. Birdland

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topic suggested by Vito Delsante

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