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With DC’s next, epic crossover event Dark Crisis on the horizon, here’s how the foundation for the story has been put into place for months.
As the DC Universe braces for the death of the Justice League, the DCU’s next major crossover event has officially been announced: Dark Crisis. Launching this June with prologue issues coming this May, the series will be written by Joshua Williamson, illustrated by Daniel Sampere, colored by Alejandro Sanchez, and lettered by Tom Napolitano. More than simply exploring a DCU reacting to the sudden death of its premier superhero team, Dark Crisis is set to serve as the culmination of months of comic book storytelling stretching back to the end of the previous crossover event Dark Nights: Death Metal.
Death Metal ended with the rebirth of the DC Multiverse as the heroes defeated the omnipotent Darkest Knight, with a glimpse at possible futures for the DCU included. These alternate future timelines were further explored in Future State, a two-month publishing event that saw a darker vision of the DCU across several years into its possible future, with a new generation of heroes rising in the face of the DCU’s normal icons having gone missing. However, the road to Dark Crisis truly began in the subsequent Infinite Frontier era, which saw the DCU picking up the pieces from Death Metal with the knowledge that a new multiverse was forming around them.
Infinite Frontier saw all of the different iterations of Darkseid combined into a single, composite form dubbed Omega Darkseid. This new threat lurked on Earth Omega and attacked the Quintessence, the five most omnipotent beings in the DCU when they began investigating the planet. Entering an alliance with Psycho-Pirate, Darkseid intended to use Barry Allen to control the multiverse before he was driven back by an assembly of heroes from across the multiverse known as Justice League Incarnate. Barry was transported away by the multiverse-traversing figure Pariah, while Darkseid and his New God allies plotted to unleash the Great Darkness upon the multiverse in his next bid towards the complete conquest of reality and all who oppose him.
As the new heroes teased during Future State began to surface all across the DCU, including Jon Kent assuming the mantle of Superman and Yara Flor stepping up as Wonder Girl, the Great Darkness made its arrival threatening both the modern-day DCU and the 31st century. The arrival of this force kicked off the superhero showdown Justice League vs. Legion of Super-Heroes (by Brian Michael Bendis and Scott Godlewski), with the Legion traveling back to the DCU’s relative present timeline in the face of the Great Darkness. Following Bendis’ run on Justice League, Justice League #75 (by Williamson and Sampere) will feature the team’s demise, with solicits for Dark Crisis placing the blame on the Great Darkness itself.
A world without the classic Justice League has been teased since Future State and serves as the inciting incident for Dark Crisis as the heroes attempt to defend the multiverse without their biggest icons. A new generation of heroes is prepared to lead the charge against Darkseid and the Great Darkness but there are still plenty of major questions lingering going into the event, including what happened to Barry Allen and Pariah. But with Darkseid more powerful than ever and the DCU’s heavy hitters off the board, Dark Crisis is quickly shaping up to a crossover that will test the surviving heroes while presenting a bold, new future for the DCU.
Written by Joshua Williamson and illustrated by Daniel Sampere, Dark Crisis #1 goes on sale this June from DC Comics.
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