Well that's interesting...

[walkingthroughforest]

The final two pages from Superman: Doomed #2
Huge spoilers.



This is my first post, so forgive me if there's some technical issues.



Superman saves the world and defeats Brainiac by pushing himself and Brainiac into a black hole.







Oh baby.

Comments

[randyripoff]

You may want to make the images significantly smaller.

[shadowpsykie]

yes please...

[thezmage]

Does it really change anything? I mean, we've known since Earth 2 debuted that we were looking at just one world in a multiverse, so what does seeing a few of the other ones change?

[walkingthroughforest]

We're not looking at other worlds, we're looking at the Pre-52 DCU.

[thezmage]

OMAC, Flashpoint, vampire Batman, and the nazi swastika next to Uncle Sam in the Plastic Man shard sure seems to say "other worlds" in a way so much more than it says "pre-52 DCU"

[doomedpatroller]

The original Freedom Fighters fought the Nazis on a world where they won.

[thezmage]

Right, which is why this says "multiverse" and not "pre-nu52"

[kd_the_movie]

Yep. I noticed that too. Also notice that Lady Quark and her husband (name escapes me) are in their own crystal to represent the earth they came from....same with Captain Marvel repping Earth S and Blue Beetle repping the Charlton Earth.

So its essentially pre-crisis all over again (which I kinda hated).

[icon_uk]

Lady Quark's husband was Lord Volt (and their daughter was Princess Fern),

[cainofdreaming]

That's not just generic vampire Batman. That's Red Rain Batman. Likewise the others are all pre-52. If it was just a glimpse to multiverse, and not specifically referring to that then don't you think there would have been at least some post-52 alternate universes in the mix?

[thezmage]

At the end of the weekly 52 series, Mister Mind ate the history of various worlds in such a way that we had an Earth 2 with a Justice Society, an Earth 3 with evil doppelgängers, an Earth 5(which looks like an S) with Shazam heroes, etc and so forth. A multiverse that, while they made a few token efforts to distinguish itself, was otherwise the same set up as pre-crisis. And here, we see the same assortment of universal shards, just because they are, yet again, going back to the same well for the selection as they always do, doesn't mean we're looking at the pre-nu52 multiverse, just yet another that follows the same pattern DC's multiverses always do.

So all this scan reveals so far is that there still is a multiverse, something we've known for over a year now. I don't really see where it changes anything.

[cainofdreaming]

Because those are all clearly examples of the pre-52 characters, or alternate universes. Not any of the new variants. The art in each is even emulating the original series (at least those that I recognize, and let me tell you Red Rain had a very distinct style).

[zapbiffpow]

Ah, so the next DC event is Pre meets New, then! Nice!

Discowing looks gooood. Also who is that woman behind OMAC? And on the heels of that, oh dear God why is that woman behind OMAC?

[thezmage]

It's a pre-packaged android which, iirc, functions as a sex doll. The position is because she hasn't been put together yet.

The reason they include it is likely to make it explicit that this is the original, sci to, Jack Kirby OMAC and not any of the in continuity versions.

http://thefifthbranch.com/gorilladaze/cover-of-the-week-omac-1/

[zapbiffpow]

Oh. Ohhhhhh. So the white stuff was like packaging foam, or something. Wow, that's, uh...

Anyway, nice detective work there. Thanks!

[terrykun]

I even knew it was another OMAC not yet getting their mack on.... but all I thought of was Kyle Rayner's girlfriend. >_>

[doomedpatroller]

That is an early variation of Titans since Jericho is there and Dick is in his first Nightwing costume. Glad to see the red trunks on Superman. Interesting tease.

[tianyulong]

Holy shit. That's all I can say right now

[stubbleupdate]

[grumman]

That was my thought as well. All the disruption of a reboot, yet all the confusion of the old continuity. The worst of both worlds.

[shadowpsykie]

Images.... SO... BIG!

[jetblack927]

This reeks of 'Heroes Reborn Franklin Richards-esqe Return to the Status Quo' Dickery...

[tianyulong]

I see the parallels. Though I doubt DC will just give up the New 52 after this, it's their darling after all and like it or not it does have a large following who would be pissed if it was made obsolete.

[practicalcat]

...Is that 90's-00's Legion of Super Heroes there? That... might actually lure me back in.

[chrisdv]

Holy crap, Donna Troy in a New 52-era comic!

[doodleboy]

Either an escape route or the equivalent of Pre-crisis Earth 2.

Or both.

[lieut_kettch]

At least 2 of those images (the Harley and Titans ones) are the Pre-Flashpoint main DCU. Glad to know it still exists.

Also, oh hey Donna! Last time we got to see you was in Super BFFs!

Plus, I thought Dick was breakdancing until I realized he was vaulting over the rooftop.

[philippos42]

:D