Dark Crisis Announced

[Digifiend]

Upside is that I don’t think Thorne has to stop using John in GL because this all takes place in the future, so we can still get John stories while this is happening.

Thorne seems to be done soon anyway. It wasn't solicited for April.

Yeah, but DC stopped pushing Cyborg after Rebirth, so he has been on and off the team (a little like Hal).

Cyborg has been busy elsewhere - first he was in Justice League Odyssey, and then Teen Titans Academy.

Comixology lists their top selling digital comics directly on their front page. Most release weeks titles that most laud as "failures" often appear in the top 10.

Yeah, what's popular in comic shops isn't the same as what's popular in digital. That's how books like Squirrel Girl and Moon Girl lasted so long at Marvel. DC need to learn that lesson.

[The Frog Bros]

Williamson also said this isn't the story anyone is thinking it is, yet all of us called the Future State kids being the focus as soon as this was announced, and the only surprise (so far) is that Wally, Dick, and Hal might actually be playing large roles, when the cynics among us (like me) assumed they'd get shafted like usual. It's a nice surprise, and reminds me that DC isn't under the same people it used to be, so I shouldn't expect the same kind of crap.

I said I wasn't gonna check this out if Dick and Wally didn't get their due, but if their prominence in the art has any truth to it then...well that's actually pretty f*cking great, honestly. Our fanbases have wanted these two to get the recognition they deserve for years now. And Williamson is a quality talent, I've liked what I've seen of him. These couple pages don't really mean anything, but it's a good sign. Better than them being completely absent, which I think a lot of us have gotten used to over the years.

It all still sounds awful. Dark Crisis? What a name. And I wonder what could get some of these cosmic villains to work together, a lot of them are very much working at cross purposes. Gods, it's sounds like an angry "stupid DC" fanfic rant from posters here right? The biggest bad guys work together, the names too big to really die, "die" and the new pet projects take over. Hell someone's probably used "Dark Crisis" as a joke name here before. But if at least *some* of the people who should *actually* be stepping up are doing that, and with Williamson crafting it....hell you never know. Might be fun.

If Dick and Wally actually play big roles here I'll likely give it an issue. Add Vic or Black Lightning or Mr. Terrific (that they're all black men is actually coincidental) to that list and I'll definitely give it one. Otherwise I'll wait for word of mouth and the trade.

I guess the name was DiDio's original name for Metal, but Snyder and Capullo kept strong with the metal name and theme.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dark...to-call-metal/

[The Frog Bros]

lol -- well, actually.... they got that wrong too:

Oh man, Jessica needs those white boots!

[D.Z]

Damn, Jessica and Hal swapping boots.

[SuperX]

Out the hell is Conner Kent a head shorter than everyone else

[Somecrazyaussie]

Yeah, what's popular in comic shops isn't the same as what's popular in digital. That's how books like Squirrel Girl and Moon Girl lasted so long at Marvel. DC need to learn that lesson.

Those two did better as trades too. They were easier sells to schools and libraries.

[sifighter]

Out the hell is Conner Kent a head shorter than everyone else

That's where the Lex's genes really hold Conner back

[Holt]

Is there some sort of boot fetish I'm missing?

[D.Z]

DC decided to swap Hal and Jessica's boot colors.

[SuperX]

That's where the Lex's genes really hold Conner back

Besides future state he has ALWAYS been exaclty the same height as Clark.
If they are gonna make him short then freeze his age,put on the YJ shows gear, throw a leather jacket on top and, give him his TTK

[protege]

They have 5G heroes and Titans, Wally and more legacies in the art.

New JSA book probably pushed to post Dark Crisis.

You think there’s going to be one?

[D.Z]

You think there’s going to be one?

Yes. Fans are just impatient.

[Frontier]

I guess DC doesn’t really have any female villains who would be considered a cosmic threat.

Pertepua was just kind of a plot devise.

There's Circe.

Everyone's questioning Doomsday, but no one seems to question Deathstroke's presence. He's the only one whose presence doesn't make sense.

He's a major DC villain.

Is that Ryan Choi I spy on the art? I've been hoping someone would do something with him.

I'm still not in love with his Rebirth redesign. Always looked too clunky to me.

I noted than Green Arrow and Black Canary are lacking from representatives replacements in the images.
I was hoping to see Roy at least.

There's some art that shows Ollie training Roy.

Is this Justice League or an episode of Super Friends? This villain team-up is somehow more ridiculous than the Legion of Doom and its comically evil-looking swamp headquarters (no hate to the Legion of Doom). It honestly feels like this event is tailored for Saturday cartoon viewing. Who at DC looks at this and says, "our readers will love this"? This event is looking to be Convergence-levels of low effort.

It looks pretty epic to me...

Deathstroke being put in the same group as Darkseid and being a universal threat feels so wrong, lol.

Every team needs a Batman, I guess.

[joebleau]

I would say they are the "Event guys". Only the Anti-Monitor and Circe are missing.

Darkseid: Legends, Genesis and Final Crisis.
Neron: Underworld Unleashed and Day of Jugdment.
Nekron: Blackest Night.
Eclipso: The Darkness within.
Ares: War of the gods.
Upside down Man: The Witching hour. (Or that was Hecate?)
The Empty Hand: The Multiversity.
Doomsday: The death of Superman (than started a set of dominoes than even extended to the Marvel universe).
The Spectre: Jugdment Day, if he is being possed by Asmodel again.

I am missing other event with potential members for this army?

Zero Hour ( extant or parallax)

[sifighter]

Zero Hour ( extant or parallax)

But that would be Hal and he's a hero in this one......isn't he