NEWS - DC reveals next event: Dark Crisis

[lordultimus]

source: dccomics.com


Joshua Williamson and Daniel Sampere Team on Dark Crisis Seven-Issue Event

A Special Prelude Is Available on Free Comic Book Day with Dark Crisis #0 FCBD Special Edition

One-Shot Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis #1 Will Be On Sale May 31

In the original Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, the homeworld of Pariah, along with the infinite Multiverse, was obliterated. Now this mad sole survivor has found a way to bring his homeworld and the entire infinite Multiverse back from the dead: Earth-0 must die. An ancient destructive force called the Great Darkness, first appearing in Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and Stan Woch, is the weapon Pariah will wield as he paves a path to rebirth and vengeance. In DC's next big event, DARK CRISIS, the heroes left behind must come together to combat this great evil and save the lost Justice League, but what happens when not everyone agrees to join the fight?

Dark Crisis is a monthly event, written by Joshua Williamson, featuring art by Daniel Sampere, colors by Alejandro Sánchez and lettering by Tom Napolitano, that will kick off with Dark Crisis #0 FCBD Special Edition, available on Free Comic Book Day. A special one-shot, Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis #1, will be available at local comics shops on May 31.

“Dark Crisis is an epic DCU event about legacy,” said writer Joshua Williamson. “It will have all the giant, fun cosmic battles and Multiversal set pieces, but it’s not about reboots, retcons, or rewriting time and space. At its core it’s about the characters and the relationships that we’ve seen built over DC’s great history. Dark Crisis spins out of Justice League 75 'DEATH OF THE JUSTICE LEAGUE' and connects all the story threads across the DCU since Infinite Frontier #0 in a major way. Unifying the new legacy of the DCU as we honor the classic. You can't miss it!"

Dark Crisis #0 FCBD Special Edition is a prelude to DC’s biggest story of 2022 and will be available to everyone for free on Free Comic Book Day.

“To me, Dark Crisis is a big celebration for all DC fans,” said artist Daniel Sampere. “It’s a huge event full of epic heart, an event that embraces the past while looking to the future. Joshua and I are the biggest DC fans, and this is our love letter to these characters and this universe.”

The one-shot Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis #1 will be available on May 31 and features some of the biggest artists and writers in comics—including Joshua Williamson, Dan Jurgens, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Clayton Henry, Emanuela Lupacchino, Stephanie Phillips, and more—showcasing what a world without the Justice League looks like to set the stage for the Dark Crisis event.

Dark Crisis is not only an epic battle of good versus evil with epic surprises in store, but is about showing how heroes relate to each other when faced with the impossible.


DARK CRISIS #0 FCBD SPECIAL EDITION
Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON and more!
Art by JIM CHEUNG, DANIEL SAMPERE, and more!
Cover by DANIEL SAMPERE
32 pages | Standard periodical 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"
ON SALE 5/7/22

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! A prelude to DC’s biggest story of 2022!

Includes a preview and art from Dark Crisis #1, coming in June! Don’t miss out on this Free Comic Book Day special featuring the blockbuster talents of Joshua Williamson, Jim Cheung, and Daniel Sampere! For free!



JUSTICE LEAGUE: ROAD TO DARK CRISIS #1
Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, JEREMY ADAMS, BRANDON THOMAS, CHUCK BROWN, STEPHANIE PHILLIPS, and PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON
Art by CLAYTON HENRY, DAN JURGENS, FICO OSSIO, EMANUELA LUPACCHINO, LEILA DEL DUCA, and more!
Cover by DANIEL SAMPERE
Variant cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
1:25 variant cover by RAF SARMENTO
$5.99 US | 48 pages | One-shot | Variant $6.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/31/22

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? An all-star roster of DC talent showcases a world without a Justice League and sets the stage for next month’s Dark Crisis event!

Fans can pick up Dark Crisis #0 FCBD Special Edition on May 7, 2022, for free at their local comic book shop. Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis #1 will be available on May 31, 2022. Dark Crisis #1 (of 7) will kick off in June 2022 with a new issue each month.

Comments

[stubbleupdate]

“Dark Crisis is an epic DCU event about legacy,” said writer Joshua Williamson.


Tell. Another. Story.

Now this mad sole survivor has found a way to bring his homeworld and the entire infinite Multiverse back from the dead: Earth-0 must die.

[blues32]

ANOTHER CRISIS?! I know Marvel is the one called the House of Ideas, but DC has to have SOME ideas other than this! Let the last one simmer a bit. They JUST defeated The Darkest Knight.

[starwolf_oakley]

Mysterious Voice: Something is coming... A crisis...
Hal: Again? That trick never works!
Barry: Shut *up*, Hal!

[owlbrigade1]

No. Just, no.

[thanekos]

“ Dark Crisis is an epic DCU event about legacy, ” said writer Joshua Williamson. “ It will have all the giant, fun cosmic battles and Multiversal set pieces, but it’s not about reboots, retcons, or rewriting time and space. At its core it’s about the characters and the relationships that we’ve seen built over DC’s great history.

" It's not about meaningful progressions of those characters or relationships, it's not about introducing new characters or relationships that any of you'll like - it's about continuing to divorce those characters and relationships from what you enjoyed about them in the first place, bringing them back as static symbols in rote rituals, hoping that you'll project your previous investment in them into the spaces we didn't bother filling in.

" Saddle up to the trough, little pigs - I've cooked up a fresh batch of slop for you, and some of it's Crisis-flavored! "

[nyadnar17]

Like if your life is always in crisis at a certain point it stops being a crisis and just starts being your life.

Xennials are probably the last generation that didn't grow up with the DC universe ALWAYS being in a state of crisis.

[thezmage]

Okay, now that Joss Whedon is out what's the replacement for the Mal from Firefly trying to say something and finding nothing? Whatever that is, that's m reaction to this

[beeyo]

Don't let Whedon ruin Firefly.

[tinygaylaura]

"Now this mad sole survivor has found a way to bring his homeworld and the entire infinite Multiverse back from the dead: Earth-0 must die."

See here's the thing

This seems to be presented as him being some kind of tragic villain or something

But

I don't give a shit about Pariah's home planet or about the original multiverse

I care about what we have now because what we have now is what I personally want.

So my reaction to this would be "Let's find a nice little cosy section of the Phatnom Zone or some other hell dimension to tuck Billy Batshit here into"

[minervasolo]

"how heroes relate to each other when faced with the impossible." Isn't this every crisis, each more impossible than the last? I want to see how heroes relate to each other when faced with the normal. Give me babysitting swaps, give me car pools, give me heroes trying to find a worklife balance. The best X-men issues were always the baseball ones, when you got a pause between missions to move characterisation along without the fate of the world hanging in the balance in the background. Give me a series about DC heroes recovering from a crisis with nothing hanging over them, so they have to have the hard (and easy) conversations with each other.

[kmerrow]

The original Crisis was a mistake.

Change my mind.

[deh_tommy]

How can you say something so controversial yet so brave?

[jlbarnett]

how much more can they bring back, I thought the last thing with the Marsupial Boy What Does the Chuckling already brought everything back

[numeronone]

Do you mean Person Dressed As A Winged Rodent Who Is Disproportionately Amused By The Events Currently At Hand?

[deh_tommy]

THE LAST ONE WAS JUST A YEAR AGO I SWEAR TO FUDGE

This is like, what, the fourth DC crossover event in a row dealing with Multiverse shenanigans?

[blues32]

Oh, less than a year, surely.

[filthysize]

[fiddlingfrog]

👍

[gnarll]

From an in-universe viewpoint, the original Crisis on Infinite Earths was an incomprehensibly huge loss. An infinite number of pretty much infinity large universes was lost, along with all their sentient life. They went from an infinity to one universe.

If Pariah can fix that, it does not make him sound like a villain to me. More like the only one left of the original Crisis team still fighting the good fight.

On crisis, I always though the real problem there was that DC seemed to have a firm grip on what the wanted to get rid of, but have very little idea about what was going to replace it. No world-building made the Crisis a negative.

[lordultimus]

I was under the impression that the multiverse was ALREADY infinite again.

[bradygirl_12]

Zzzzzzzzzzz

[mastermahan]

"Pariah is evil now, and we're recycling an obscure Alan Moore concept" sounds like the sort of thing someone might have predicted during the Infinite Crisis era. As a joke.

[scorntx]

You mean it's... not a joke?

oh.

[numeronone]

So much for "Final", huh.

An exciting new epic from the man who rips off everything Morrison ever wrote without engaging critically with a single word!!!

[thezmage]

This is the fastest any creator has gone from "Are you sure you're not talking about Bill Willingham?" to "Ugh, I hate this guy" in my mind before.

[fiddlingfrog]

[scorntx]

Trying to formulate some sort of response, and it's a wild mix of annoyance, confusion, frustration, exasperation, a tiny smidge of morbid curiosity and just apathy.

So what's next? A rehash of Zero Hour? Or Infinite Crisis? Or Final Crisis?

Dark Infinite Crisis? Dark Final Crisis? Final Dark Infinite Crisis of Darkness?
(oh my, the word crisis has stopped meaning anything.)

... was thinking of trying to make some slightly more intelligent comment, but just thinking about this is draining.

[bolindbergh]

Countdown to Infinite Countdown!

[bruinsfan]

Crisis on Infinite Crossovers!

DC will stop publishing monthly titles and just have one big event crossover lead into another with no down time from now on!

[leahandillyana]

Not only is it aping Infinite Crisis, but also the premise clashes with current status quo which reestablished every multiverse :(

[lizard_of_aus]

The Status Quo continues to be absolute chaos.

Serves me right for getting my hopes up, I suppose. Here I thought things would be different without Didio.

[john_drake1964]

I wrote this elsewhere on the internet, but, hey, why waste digital ink rehashing something.

"It feels like crises after crises after crises. It’s heroes dealing with some end of the world/universe/reality/multiverse crises, or another hero teams/groups getting into fights. We don’t get the villains enacting smaller scale plots anymore, it feels like constant war against everything and everyone. How many times since the New 52 has the Joker directly waged some sort of war on Gotham and the Batfamily to break the Bat, for example?

All these crises where it’s some even bigger, grander, more dangerous than before villain just start blending together, it seems. And then it turns out “oh, this mysterious new villain we’re introducing is behind everything else that’s happened since this big crises or all the crises. How big a threat they must be! Look, they are even responsible somehow for the death of the Justice League!”

It might not be so tiring if they either spaced these things out, or didn’t have to heave to the old “the threat of reality/multiverse itself” is in danger. And speaking of, DC has plenty of multiversal elseworlds out there, yet we only ever see them in cameos. Why not do something with that multiverse other than threaten it? You’ve got worlds like Gaslight or New Frontier you could do something with, just to name some examples, but they’re largely relegated to cross-universe team-ups or getting destroyed by the threat of the month."

[zachbeacon]

"Dark Crisis" just makes me think of Death Metal and didn't we just finally escape from several years of Death Metal?

[lordultimus]

"Dark Crisis" was actually the name DC editorial wanted to give Death Metal, but Snyder refused.

[werehawk]

I’m apparently but as a DC fan forever (since the first Crisis actually) I am looking forward to Williamsons take on this. He did a very comprehensible summary of almost every DC event in the latest issue of JL Incarnate.

https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/9536890.html

Like the art preview, like the writing leading up to this JL Incarnate and previous minis by Williamson) I’m all in.