I haven't read that many current comics during the last 20 years...but I remember the 90's.
The Source Wall concept came out before WildStorm....yes, but the Source Wall and the Bleed were(are?) two different things.
its more like peanut butter and jelly. the bleed compliments the sourcewall. thats why i said the "sourcewall/bleed."
The Bleed (which WAS introduced in the WildStorm universe) is between ALL of the Source Walls of each of the various universes in the DC Comics multiverse (IE: each "universe" has it's own "Source Wall" and "The Bleed" is what separates them all).
The Bleed (comic book location) - Comic Vine
check out its first appearance. sure there's alot of wild storm information, but how come its first appearance is justice league of america 21? a 60's comic? a comic made in the 60's depicting the justice league of earth 2? which, also leads to the future of multiverses? hmm? why would something that you say is specifically wildstorm's creation, first appear in a dc comic in the 60s?
because dc came up with it, especially when they came up with the idea of other universes. there must be something in between them keeping them separate right?
I know I could be wrong, but I don't see anything that could connect things in the WildStorm universe (that was previously part of Image) to anything Marvel (prior to GL/SS).
World War 3 (comic book story arc) - Comic Vine
lets be honest here, heroes reborn didnt happen. ever. but there's still left over proof that it may have, and there's one.
even if we play seven degrees from superman, if marvel's been to dc, and wildstorm is cannon dc, then marvel's visited wildstorm. another shining example would be
gen13/spiderman, that horribly sucked.
But as I said, what I read in the past led me to believe that The Bleed separates ALL off the "universes" in DC, so another publisher's universe could easily be put in there for the sake of stories (and sales).
no. read
Source Wall (comic book location) - Comic Vine
Now that the DC Universe is revealed to be 52 universes it is stated that each reality has a Source Wall separating it from the others with The Bleed in between them.
But the in-between space wasn't
called "The Bleed" until the DC/Wildstorm-published
Stormwatch #7. So, no matter what retcon-ny thing you're talking about that's happened now (I haven't read superhero comics since back then, and the only reason I read
Stormwatch in the first place was because one of my friends was writing it, which is how I even know this at all), Darius is still right about the Source Wall and The Bleed being two different things. Old-timers, represent!
while he may be right they're two different things, i still maintain that there was something there before it was called "the bleed", wildstorm just named it (a main theme of the source wall was so few saw past it but there was something definitively on the other side in between what was really on the other side). just like kirby created a source wall
concept, but claremont made it
visual. sure, wildstorm named it, in their
own books (before being purchased by dc), but its been a concpet dc's had nameless. one can assume that when dc bought wildstorm they took
realtive concepts, one being named, and one not being named, and made them the same thing.
i was wrong initially to say "it seperates the bleed which is marvel." i was mistaken to think the bleed was more like a universe rather than another type wall/space/place people float around in. what i should have said "it seperates from the bleed from the marvel universe, from the dc universe."
so it doesnt "bleed" over into their respective universes.
i dont read wildstorm(because it sucks). ive never read anything outside of dc or marvel(until house of m) but i do familiarize myself with stuff that dc crosses over with.
actually if i could trouble a mod to drop this into its own thread so it doesnt hijack anymore that would be great, i really enjoy debating about dc multiverses and the things that are involved with them, its always been something that fascinates me.
