The End of the World As We Know It

Starry Night by Christophe Leterrier

I'm fascinated by instances where the creators of video games, RPGs, or comics change their worlds. The joy of fantasy is that everything is completely malleable. The history, the politics, the very physics of the universe - all can be changed at the creators' whim.

But what happens to the readers and players who are committed to that world? How do they deal with the upheaval?

Comics are, perhaps, the least interesting of the three, as they're now built...