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Cartoon Multiverse: A Different Approach

So now that I'm back to seriously writing, I've put a lot of thought into Cartoon Multiverse (the new tentative title for the Cartoon Crossover Encyclopedia) and have decided I can't write it like the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia. So I'm starting over. I mean, not completely. I have 154 pages of stuff written that slightly edited will be reused, but I think I need to take a very different approach. So I'm very excited about this. And this reminds me that when I started the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia (which started off as the Horror Crossover Universe), I tried a different approach which I also had to scrap and start over. So one thing that's different is that there will be no criteria to be included other than there is a crossover. In the last book, I had a starting point and used a six degrees methodology. Nothing could be included unless it could connect back to the start point, in an effort to make everything fit in one universe. This book is cal

The Post-Crisis Superman and Inter-Company Crossovers: A TVCU Timeline

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Technically, for the sake of this timeline, I will be combining several continuities into one canon.  With this post I will be incorporating the "post-Crisis" canon, the "post Zero Hour" canon, the "Post Infinite Crisis/New Earth/Earth-0" canon, and the post Crisis version of Crossover Earth. Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC rebooted Superman's canon.  Very little that came before still happened.  This was a new timeline.  Though Superman had been operating for a few years in this timeline, those stories were told in flashbacks over time.  Zero Hour provided a soft reboot of the DCU that had very little effect on Superman.  Superman:  Birthright came out before Infinite Crisis and Supergirl (Kara) reappeared just before Infinite Crisis, both retconning some post-Crisis era stories, mainly negating a lot of John Byrne's mythology that started with Man of Steel.  Infinite Crisis rewrote a bit of Superman's past again, but was still a