DC’s Final Tease
Much of DC’s superiority, it seems, comes from its cryptic dealings over the stories to come. There certainly some major things in the works . . . but they all seem so background at the moment. While you can’t pick up a Marvel book without tripping over either a green-skinned Hulk or the occassional Skrull, DC seems so spread out in its own universe, its almost frightening - on one hand, Anti-Monitor has resurfaced leading the Sinestro Corps in Green Lantern, while on another, the Kingdom Come universe seems to be getting closer and closer with every new issue of Justice Society of America.
This could blow back. If fans feel that Infinite Crisis never ended . . . that Superboy’s death was in effect for nothing . . . than there’s much bayooed crossover may come crashing down, cheapened by no end in sight. After all, many creators in DC claimed the aftermath of Crisis would herald a new age in the DC Universe, yet post-52, it feels like we’ve never left.
DC has been promoting itself with teasers starting with the one in the corner. The latest one, dropped off at Newsarama, reads “Heroes Die. Legends Live Forever.”
The most vague and cryptic teaser image ever shows only the shadowed Justice League - including Supes, Bats, WW, Hawkman, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and Flash - standing there, giving no allusions to the story.
But it does include a date - May 2008.
We’ll see what this means. But if this turns out to be Infinite Crisis 2 or something equally lames, I’ll be extremely disappointed.
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