We know Justice League #75 will come out April 26 in our world, but when does it happen in the DCU? As we've previously reported, while the history of the DCU is now canonically quite fluid, it appears Dark Crisis takes place "a bit in the future of the DCU." But what does that mean? Which leads us to our next question: Who will kill the Justice League? 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. 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. As if awakening the Anti-Monitor in 1985 wasn't already enough, it will be the Marv Wolfman/George Pérez-created villain that puts together the team to finally take down the Justice Justice. In fact, it's one of the main players of Crisis on Infinite Earths that gets the whole shebang started the cosmic mad scientist Pariah. In short, it looks as though Dark Crisis will be pulling from three decades of DC Comics history, from the classic Crisis on Infinite Earths to the very recent Infinite Frontier (written by Williamson) and much more in between.
The simple answer to this is, well, everything.ĭC calls Dark Crisis an ' event 30 years in the making,' and Williamson says the concept of killing the Justice League is at least partially inspired by 1992's ' Death of Superman' story.