DC Comics’ Newest Crisis Won’t Reboot the DC Universe, Thank God

Every time the DC Comics universe has gone into Crisis mode, the ramifications have been enormous. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis—all of them managed to rejigger its continuity ultimately. So it’s genuinely refreshing to search out out that Dark Crisis, DC’s subsequent large comedian occasion, gained’t be about “reboots, retcons, or rewriting time and space,” in keeping with author Joshua Williamson. But issues within the DC universe will nonetheless be going to absolute hell.

Dark Crisis is the results of Justice League #75, in which you’ll recall the Justice League dies combating the Great Darkness, just lately revealed in Justice League Incarnate #4 to be a malevolent entity that seems to have secretly been behind nearly all the aforementioned crises (which implies the retcon occurred earlier than Dark Crisis begins, however I can stay with that). Now, Pariah, the only real survivor of the unique Crisis on Infinite Earths, has a plan to make use of the Great Darkness to revive the infinite DC multiverse and get revenge. Meanwhile, with out the Justice League round, issues begin to go unhealthy with Dark Crisis #0, which is able to come out on May’s Free Comic Book Day. Here’s the synopsis:

“Witness the rise and fall of the Justice League! The event years in the making is here with Dark Crisis. The Justice League is comics’ greatest super-team—made up of DC Comics’ legendary Super Heroes, they have saved the world countless times. No crisis was too much for them to handle… until now! The Justice League has been defeated by the Great Darkness and its army of DC’s most dangerous villains—now a new generation of heroes must rise to protect not only the Multiverse… but also the legacy of the DC Universe!”

This can be adopted by Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis #1:

“The Justice League has tragically fallen in battle, and now we see the aftermath. How does the world react to the Justice League being gone? Which heroes rise up… and which villains try to take advantage? And what dark forces are lying in wait to attack?”

And that can be adopted by the Dark Crisis collection correct. Between the artwork and the speak of “a new generation of heroes,” it does appear to suggest that the longer term seen in final yr’s Future State collection—through which Yara Flor is Wonder Woman, Jo Mullein is Green Lantern, the Kent brothers as Superboys, and Tim Fox as Batman—would be the new establishment after the Justice League’s dying, or maybe shortly thereafter.

Dark Crisis #0, like the longer term Dark Crisis collection, can be written by Joshua Williamson, and have artwork by Daniel Sampere, colours by Alejandro Sánchez, and lettering by Tom Napolitano. It can be out on May 7. Road to Dark Crisis #1 arrives May 31, and contains a cavalcade of writers and artists together with Joshua Williamson, Dan Jurgens, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Clayton Henry, Emanuela Lupacchino, Stephanie Phillips, and extra.

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