It’s time to get rid of DC’s timeline and lean into the multiverse. That might sound like a radical idea, but really it’s anything but — not just in the grander history of comics, but also in the face of what DC’s history has become. Before Marvel Comics normalized the idea of a shared, interconnected universe, most DC Comics titles never really crossed over very much. Yeah, there were team-ups and you had a Justice League of America comic, but the idea of a single, monolithic story starring hundreds of characters over a sustained period of time was just…not the way comics were made. As the continuity-driven model started to take over, comics became more impenetrable to casual fans, and gained their reputation of being “soap operas for boys.” At the same time, DC abandoned the multiverse following the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, leading to the post-Crisis, pre-Infinite Crisis DC Universe.