Dark Crisis

For the last couple of years, I have felt that DC Comics has been a company that has been creatively in a state of disarray. 

The company being bought and sold a couple of times might be the foundation of this issue. COVID delaying things for while didn't help. But leadership changes definitely are a big part of that feeling. There were a number of 'events' unfolding at the same time, overlapping each other, and delaying each other's finales.  The '5G' future that now-gone Dan Didio wanted has been a carcass that DC has picked at for a while. With Future State bringing in 'the future' and introducing us to Jon and Yara as mantle-wearers, it seems DC just didn't know where they were going.

Except for Batman books. They knew they were going there.

Recently the news of the latest event was released. Writer Joshua Williamson is going to write Dark Crisis, a book that he describes as a 'love letter' to the DCU. Art will be done by a recent favorite of mine, Daniel Sampere. There are plenty of stories out there about this but here is one:https://www.gamesradar.com/dc-dark-crisis/

Now it sounds like The Great Darkness, perhaps the one that has been hinted at in Brian Michael Bendis' Legion book is the 'anti-God' that was behind the American Gothic storyline waaayyyy back in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run. Seems odd to have something so metaphysical and religious be the basis of a Crisis but here we are.

Meanwhile, we also got this nugget:

Somewhat a surprise, DC has revealed Pariah, a key character in the original 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez and who last appeared in an epilogue of Infinite Frontier #6, is the main villain. Pariah is using the Great Darkness as a weapon to bring his Multiverse - now dubbed Multiverse-2 in the new, greater DC Omniverse - back from obliteration. The mad Pariah wants to destroy Earth-0 (otherwise known as Earth-Prime or the main DCU Earth) in his quest for rebirth and vengeance.

It seems that every hero from the ending of Crisis on Infinite Earths has ultimately made a heel turn. Superboy Prime? Alex Luthor? The Earth-2 Superman? Now Pariah?

I guess the only hold out is Harbinger ... but for all I know I might have missed something.

The beginning of this story is the 'death of the JLA'. 

Pages are out there including this candle-light vigil at the Hall of Justice for our fallen heroes.

Williamson promises a book about legacy and what it means to be a hero. He hasn't let me down before. So I am hoping that this will be worth it. Because I can't remember the last universal crisis book that has come out that I have loved.

But this is a Supergirl blog.

I get it that Jon is the hot commodity as Superman these days. But I hope that Supergirl has some role to play in this. She is as much a legacy for Superman as Jon is.

I was glad to see her on the extreme left of the top most image, the cover of Dark Crisis #1. Yes, she is off to the side, not prominently displayed. But she is there. 

And she does have a pretty prominent center stage in that funeral scene, hugging who I assume is Lois. 

If this is about legacy, I have to assume all the Robins will be involved, all the Wonder Girls, all the Flashes. So maybe Supergirl will have a moment in the sun with the rest of the Super-family.

What do you all think of this?