Readers of superhero comics have been buzzing this week about the release of Multiversity #1 from the mind of award-winning writer Grant Morrison. The new, dimension-hopping series also features a revised map of DC Comics’ storytelling universe…with some notable repercussions. As the site Multiversity Comics notes:

While the multiversal map depicts the Source Wall as existing beyond Monitor Space and the Orrery of Worlds, characters of the DC universe have often interacted with it, or at least aspects of it. What lies beyond the Source Wall isn’t entirely clear. It is often described as a void, known sometimes as the source. It is home to a omnipowerful, God-like being referred to at times as “The Presence” or “The Overvoid.” Morrison has likened this area to a blank page, upon with the stories and pictures of the DC universe are written, drawn, and told (which makes the pun of the “Source” rather clear).

In addition to this meta-approach to the God-like Source of the DC Universe, there is also the flatly plain charting of Heaven and Hell amongst all the other realms. A peculiar theology seems to be underpinning Morrison’s outlook on the company’s fiction…