Dark Crisis Announced

[blunt_eastwood]

I continue to fail to get how anyone could be entertained by this book...it just seems so lack luster. They kept showing the multi-verse map with darkness infecting it over and over like it was supposed to build tension...but you can't build tension if you haven't educated the audience on just what the threat is. We're five issues in and we don't know what the great darkness is, what the plan is or why we should care if it fails or succeeds. That's a HUGE failure in storytelling.

It's the GREAT DARKNESS!!! If you ever had the power go out you know how dangerous it can be...

[Johnny]

I continue to fail to get how anyone could be entertained by this book...it just seems so lack luster. They kept showing the multi-verse map with darkness infecting it over and over like it was supposed to build tension...but you can't build tension if you haven't educated the audience on just what the threat is. We're five issues in and we don't know what the great darkness is, what the plan is or why we should care if it fails or succeeds. That's a HUGE failure in storytelling.

We do now. The Deadly Green Special revealed what's controlling it.

[blunt_eastwood]

We do now. The Deadly Green Special revealed what's controlling it.

Seriously? I skipped it so I wasn't aware. Is it something that should have been revealed in the main book?

[king81992]

Why does Williamson keep putting poor Rose through the ringer?

If Rose comes out of this and permanently cuts bait with Slade instead of getting suckered into his schemes, it'll be worth it.

[jaygon]

So no further revelations/developments regarding the new multiversal status quo and Multiverse-1/Multiverse-2?

[Johnny]

Seriously? I skipped it so I wasn't aware. Is it something that should have been revealed in the main book?

Well it is revealed in the main book too, it's the first thing Jon says when he shows up in the new issue.

[D.Z]

So no further revelations/developments regarding the new multiversal status quo and Multiverse-1/Multiverse-2?

Have to wait for FB6 and DCOIE 6 and 7.

[Guy_McNichts]

Kind of feels like Dark Crisis is supposed to be a "Titans" story the same way Death Metal was allegedly a "Wonder Woman" story.

[sifighter]

What Guardian said is essentially what I meant. Obviously things are happening, but there's nothing of significance. At least with the other crises there was some gimmick or theme to make them unique, but this doesn't have anything that isn't already a rehash of things we've seen before but without the weight or emotion.

That’s a fair argument

[krazijoe]

I thought the current issue developed the story more and pretty much showed what Pariah was up to.

[Dataweaver]

So no further revelations/developments regarding the new multiversal status quo and Multiverse-1/Multiverse-2?

Have to wait for FB6 and DCOIE 6 and 7.

…So we're not being given any follow-up to DC#4 ending with Pariah regenerating Multiverse 2?

[jaygon]

…So we're not being given any follow-up to DC#4 ending with Pariah regenerating Multiverse 2?

Or an explanation as to how the destroyed ‘husk’ of Multiverse-2 was even a thing! The majority of Multiverse-2 (with the exception of 5 earths) was completely erased by anti-matter. There was no ‘husk’.

[D.Z]

Have to wait for Waid and more too.

[sifighter]

Or an explanation as to how the destroyed ‘husk’ of Multiverse-2 was even a thing! The majority of Multiverse-2 (with the exception of 5 earths) was completely erased by anti-matter. There was no ‘husk’.

That one you can actually blame on Grant Morrison’s Multiversity.

[jaygon]

That one you can actually blame on Grant Morrison’s Multiversity.

Did the husk appear in Multiversity? Admittedly, I’ve never read it.