Blogger Siskoid has rolled out a couple of interesting, if brief, superhero-centric think pieces this week. The first, on developing self-contained “Bubble Worlds” within a larger fictional universe is my favorite, in part because it deals with what Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja have accomplished in The Immortal Iron Fist:
On the one hand, it’s built an Iron Fist Bubble World with the creation of other cities like K’un-Lun who all have their own champion, and all vie for domination in the Heavenly Convergence Tournament. Suddenly, Iron Fist doesn’t really need the Marvel Universe, he has a complete world with its own rules to play in.
That post also focuses on recent expansion of Green Lantern mythology with the conclusion of the Sinestro Corps War and the addition of the other color-coded corps.
The other piece is more narrow in scope, looking at how DC’s post-Crisis on Infinite Earths “reboot” occurred in phases, as demonstrated by the changes in the sprawling line-up of All-Star Squadron.
Related: Steven Padnick has his own thoughts on “Bubble Worlds”
