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I like DC's two earths thing, and I can accept that that's an explanation for there being two batmen and two supermen and two wonder women and all of that stuff. But! And this is the core problem I have here: it makes no freaking sense how they've chosen to organize their system of multiple universes. Earth-Two is just the JSA earth, but no timeline is ever established. How old are the JSA members? You can't say they're not aging, like Marvel could with most of their 40s guys. To be fair, most of Marvels 40s heroes were either dead, in suspended animation or (and again this is the key) actually fucking aging!

Marvel had The Whizzer. The Whizzer actually aged! His son Nuklo is a prepubescent teen who was kept in suspended animation and never learned to be more than a child. His son is also a walking radiation bomb with low functioning autism, so it's kind of hard to explain their dynamic. Whizzer lost his wife when she had a stillbirth in Wundagore, except that the High Evolutionary lied and told him that he'd actually had twins (Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch). That's why Whizzer thought he was the father of Wanda and Pietro, and he honestly should've been their dad. He's better than Magneto!

Anyways, I'm getting off subject. But Whizzer aged. He had kids. He settled down. He did the things you'd expect, and it makes him more believable. His alcoholism and his heart attacks and his loneliness as a dad who failed his kids but wants to finally be better makes him such an interesting guy. But the JSA couldn't even be bothered to have children half the time, and they don't seem to have aged a day past the 1950s! Seriously, DC failed in every way when it came to addressing the JSA. And Infinity Inc, while good in it's intentions, can't fix the countless mistakes all the 60s and 70s writers had made.

By telling me that the JSA have kids, but the kids are all radically different ages (and most are still teenagers), you ruin any and all suspension of disbelief I have. I refuse to believe that men who were serving in ww2 have teen kids in 1983! When did they have children: in their 50s!? You know their wives probably had a much lower fertility rate after a certain age, right!? It's not impossible these ladies had kids after their menopause (which almost all of them had probably had), but it's highly unlikely. The logistics make no sense whatsoever.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch with The Whizzer made sense. Wanda and Pietro were in their 20s in the 60s and 70s, I assume. Bob Frank was probably in his 50s in the 1970s (assuming he became a hero in his 20s). The timeline adds up. He had kids in his 30s. It makes sense. Even Bruce Wayne on Earth-Two having Helena Wayne makes some sense to me, since the 1970s being only a few decades prior to ww2 means that Helena was probably at least born to parents whose ages make sense for having kids timeline wise.

Infinity Inc has no business existing, because the math doesn't work. And I usually don't care about math, but you make me care by making it a core component of the characters! Everything is tied to ww2, so everything had better make sense in correlation to these guys serving in ww2! You can't wave off biology here! No you can't! As much as I want to like Infinity Inc, my brain will not let me engage with it. I try, and my brain just shifts straight into all of this stuff. The timeline doesn't work, and I wanted DC to just address that. Explain it away with magic, I don't care. But do something! Why are all of these old people having young children, especially given the unlikelihood of biology to allow women to have kids after a certain age!? This isn't me even trying to be sexist, I swear. This is just my brain being inexplicably stuck on the stupidest thing ever.

So yeah, this is why I can't ever read anything about Infinity Inc. I can take Power Girl and Huntress. They work. But the rest of them don't tread water on any level, not unless they can solve their mathematical discrepancies. DC didn't need the Crisis on Infinite Earths to fix this; DC merely needed to revise their timeline or explain these characters births in a way that allows time to have no meaning here.