Kris Straub wrote:The events in the book are also in continuity. The Jinxlets did save the space zoo from the destruction of Jupiter and the whole previous universe.
uh SPOILER dude
i don't think you revealed what they saved the zoo from in the strip yet
Kris Straub wrote:The kid's book presentation is in the same vein as "How George Washington Became President" or something.
That's neat, the book being produced in the new universe allows you to tell a story of the old universe without having to draw in the old style again. (I did briefly wonder whether this was an indicator that these events happened in the New Universe.*)
GeekMan wrote:By emergency-shifting at the moment of their universe's (supposed) destruction, it would seem that "our" crew caused a hapless, alternate Paradigm & crew to be shifted to the "doomed" universe and destroyed / killed. [...]
"What happens to our parallel selves?"
"Who cares?"
I think you're underselling the implications of your last quote. The fate of the parallel selves was never canonically established - the "Who cares?" here doesn't just mean they didn't care how their parallels would feel about being yanked back to the start of their journey or whatever, it means there's no official line either way about what even happens to them. Maybe it was a straight swap, maybe the parallels were harmlessly displaced into a third universe, maybe they were atomised. It's possible that an entire Alt!Fuseli was simply deleted from existence each and every time they Starslipped. That simple line of institutionalised apathy was a stroke of creative genius on Kris' part, removing any kind of potential nitpicking** while also leaving himself free to expand on it at a later date.
* Not to be confused with the Marvel Comics New Universe from off of the 80's
** at least involving that part of it
