Du Mu had originally wanted to sort through DC's historical timeline and pick a few suitable major crises to intervene in.
But he quickly discovered that this thing simply could not be sorted out.
Whenever Du Mu felt that he had more or less straightened out the storyline, he would discover in the next second that the universe had been rebooted.
All the settings had been torn down and rebuilt, character relationships reshuffled, and even the timeline was different.
He patiently kept reading, only for the entire damn universe to reboot again before long.
The comics were already like that; the situation on the film and television side could only be described as catastrophic.
Batman and Superman alone, the two flagship characters, had already appeared in no fewer than seven or eight versions that he had seen. Every version looked different, had a different personality, and even the art styles were inconsistent.
Other than the ever-unchanging Kent Farm and Crime Alley, the rest of the plot developments had basically nothing in common.
Superman's power level fluctuated even more wildly. Some versions could carry planets while flying without changing expression, while others nearly suffocated on the spot after an enemy covered their mouth. His power settings were about as reliable as a weather forecast—completely unstable.
Du Mu knew that this reboot cycle would not stop.
Because in his era, there was still a new DC work called New New New New New New Superman: Prequel. Even someone like him, who did not know much about superhero works, knew of Superman.
There was no helping it. A brand-new Superman movie came out every few years; it was hard not to know.
But that was precisely the problem.
Faced with timelines that constantly overwrote themselves, there was no way to tell which major