Quote: First Amongst Daves said: ...its not as if any real difference occurs from either of those titles/stories (JSA or Civil War). Its not as if Black Adam deposed Mugabe and now runs Zimbabwe.
But he does run some other, for lack of better term, third world country, albeit fictional, and that state of facts impacts how the heroes interact with that country, as well as how other nations do.
In addition, we saw Lex elected President, of course, something that would have been unheared even fifteen years ago I think.
Both of these situations drive home, more than anything else, that the DCU earth is no longer simply a mirror image of our earth, with superheroes and a couple of extra cities, but an honest to goodness alternate timeline/universe, more akin to the Authority or Watchmen than it was in the past.
