Dark Crisis Announced

[InfamousBG]

When this series is over with what do you think we are going to get from this?

I am ok with the series so far but I am still up in the air of the end game here. Does that keep me interested? Maybe. Still not sure where the story is going.

[Digifiend]

Relaunches for all of the team books (Justice League, Teen Titans, JSA at least, probably also Suicide Squad) and Green Lantern.

Okay so John’s dream world is easy to understand, a world where he’s the greatest of green lanterns and he’s semi-retired with his family. Kendra’s I think needs some explaining.

Because if I’ve understood correctly is that Kendra’s Dreamworld is she wants to be Hawkgirl but doesn’t want all that comes with it. That she wants to be an individual separate from the reincarnation cycle that Carter and Shayera are a part of.

Makes sense. She enjoys being a superhero but doesn't like being destined to be with Carter.

I wonder if there's much of a market for a solo Hawkgirl though.

No. She's always been a team character. JSA originally, JLA more recently.

For a dead girl, Arisia's getting a lot of play in this series

She's not dead any more. Some of the dead GLs were resurrected when the Corps were repowered.

They're more or less characters than original covers ?

Also, Williamson, the only writer who still remender Naomi XD

Which turns out to be a continuity error, as her season 2 mini ended with her going back to her own world! She's gone!

They are really trying to make The Flash and yellow goggles into a thing.

Meh. As long as you can tell Barry and Wally apart in costume, that's all I care about. Goggles or exposed eyes, doesn't matter as long as Wally is using the white lenses.

[MajorHoy]

Relaunches for all of the team books (Justice League, Teen Titans, JSA at least, probably also Suicide Squad) and Green Lantern.

You really think that will happen?

I won't say it's impossible, but I definitely don't know how likely it would be (unless DC tried to pawn off a group called the "JSA" that really didn't have all that much in common with past versions).

[Ascended]

You really think that will happen?

I won't say it's impossible, but I definitely don't know how likely it would be

I'd say the odds right now are probably 40/60 against. Far from impossible but it'll be more surprising if it happens than if it doesn't.

I don't think DC is against using the JSA, I just think the team isn't a priority for them and the burden of getting them into a new book is on the creators' end of things. DC isn't asking for pitches, but will accept a good one if it comes along. Look at the Hitch situation; he was gonna do the JSA, but when he left the project DC didn't care enough to replace him, they just let the whole effort end. Creators are gonna have to carry this thing across the finish line on their own.

So are there creators out there interested in doing JSA who have the follow-through to put it together themselves? Do they have an idea that'll impress DC enough to approve it? I think if it's gonna happen, it'll happen here, in the wake of Dark Crisis and Black Adam hitting cinemas. The comic Event is the right kind of setup with the right kind of themes. The movie offers larger media synergy. It feels like an easy swing right now, and I think we can trust DC, to a point, to always go for the easy swing. Those Black Adam tie-in issues with Cyclone and Hawkman and Atom Smasher might be a primer for the JSA's return as well as movie leeching; seeing how they sell to get a vague idea of how a main canon JSA might do these days.

Oh, we can probably assume that once the bigger, more important roles are filled in WBD's upper chambers, there'll be another change in DC's publishing leadership, another structural shift, and new mandates and priorities from whoever the new people in charge turn out to be. When that happens, who the hell knows what they'll think is important. But I doubt those changes will trickle down to the shelf for at least a year unless they do something really crazy like pull out of the direct market altogether.

[Hypo]

Dark Crisis: Young Justice #3 Preview
Writer: Meghan Fitzmartin
Artist: Laura Braga

[Digifiend]

Nice one Bart! Looks like he's noticed that Cassie isn't who she says she is.

[sifighter]

Is Deathstroke shooting Bart in the knee really that big a moment for him? I mean sure he became Kid Flash then but I figured it would be Inertia because he killed him.

[ducklord]

Is Deathstroke shooting Bart in the knee really that big a moment for him? I mean sure he became Kid Flash then but I figured it would be Inertia because he killed him.

Snarky answer: Deathstroke makes the cash registers ka-ching.

More nuanced answer: Arguably, each of these villains represents the pivot point at which the characters went from "reasonably fun, somewhat carefree" teens to "superheroing r serious bizzness, dagnabbit" teens. The revelation of Conner's REAL parentage. Deathstroke kneecapping Bart, and Boomerbutt killing Tim's dad could be seen as the point of no return for these characters.

I mean, if you squint.

[StarSpangledMan]

Sneak peak from Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #4



I really like Barry's look here. Those random lines are gone, thick-looking straight toped boots, I hope he has the straight lighting belt but I'd be content with the v-belt as well. This could be the definitive modernisation of Barry's costume in the same vein as Hal's modernisation post-Rebirth.

[Refrax5]

Sneak peak from Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #4



I really like Barry's look here. Those random lines are gone, thick-looking straight toped boots, I hope he has the straight lighting belt but I'd be content with the v-belt as well. This could be the definitive modernisation of Barry's costume in the same vein as Hal's modernisation post-Rebirth.

Yeah, I really like it, although I miss the classic wing-boots.

[Frontier]

Sneak peak from Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #4



I really like Barry's look here. Those random lines are gone, thick-looking straight toped boots, I hope he has the straight lighting belt but I'd be content with the v-belt as well. This could be the definitive modernisation of Barry's costume in the same vein as Hal's modernisation post-Rebirth.

Is Barry finally back? I wonder if the green is to imply Hal frees him.

[sifighter]

Is Barry finally back? I wonder if the green is to imply Hal frees him.

I have a feeling Barry’s getting freed by Wally in this week issue of the crossover, allowing Barry to come to Hal’s rescue. Because that green makes me think Barry got into “Sector John Stewart” where we last left Hal.

[StarSpangledMan]

Yeah, I really like it, although I miss the classic wing-boots.

How could I forget the wing-boots?! Definitely need the wing-boots as well.

[InfamousBG]

Sneak peak from Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #4



I really like Barry's look here. Those random lines are gone, thick-looking straight toped boots, I hope he has the straight lighting belt but I'd be content with the v-belt as well. This could be the definitive modernisation of Barry's costume in the same vein as Hal's modernisation post-Rebirth.

I love everything about this.

[Ascended]

Is Deathstroke shooting Bart in the knee really that big a moment for him? I mean sure he became Kid Flash then but I figured it would be Inertia because he killed him.

I think it was, yeah. I don't think it was the injury itself, though that was certainly horrific, but how Slade treated Bart, the utter disregard and disrespect. Bart's supposed to be one of the Flashes, someone who runs through time and other dimensions, who fights the biggest, wildest threats in the multiverse....and a dude who's marginally stronger than normal considered him a joke barely worth acknowledging.

I think Slade made Bart realize that everyone saw him as a screw up, Slade taking him down so easily likely made Bart think the same, and I think that's what hurt more than the kneecap.

Inertia and the Rogues killed him, but that actually shows a degree of worry and concern; Bart was dangerous enough to kill.

Plus, the villains here and the relevant stories all came from around the same era, which did mark a shift not only in how YJ was treated but the DCU as a whole. When Johns put YJ into the Titans it really was the beginning of the end for these kids, even though Johns' run itself was popular at the time and sold well.

Plus.....almost nobody remembers who the hell Inertia even is, and that likely played a role too.