It come out at last calendar month ’s New York Comic - Con , and then again in last week ’s DC superhero funnies . subsequently , an wanton - to - record adaptation showed up as part of an interview with DC Comics head honcho Dan DiDio over the weekend . I ’m talking about the whiteboard of doomsday . This is DC ’s belated attempt to tease fans with hints of what ’s to hail in the next class or so . Having trouble telling your JSA from your JLA on the whiteboard , and wonder what it all signify ? We ’ll try and make some sense of it all , under the jump .
The panel – a callback to a subplot from DC ’s successful 52 serial publication – is made up of multiple phrases or , weirdly enough , math trouble that wed into already - announce , rumored or all unknown news report for Superman , Batman and their ( superintendent ) friends . Some of them are obvious :
posit and Resist are both titles tied in with the upcoming Final Crisis storyline , as already announce by DC . Same with Evil Won ( Final Crisis taking place after evil has apparently beaten good in that traditional never - end battle ) , First Boy / Last son ( Crisis will , according to writer Grant Morrison , start with Anthro , the first male child on Earth , and end with Kamandi , the last boy on Earth ) , Girlfight ( Morrison has promised a fighting between Supergirl , the teenaged female child personification of all things good , and Mary Marvel , new - appointed pin - up daughter for iniquity ) and Loneliness + Alienation + Fear + Despair + Self Worth ( etc . ) , which is one possible version of “ the Anti - Life Equation , ” DC ’s mythical way to remove devoid will in mass ( This variant appeared in Morrison ’s 2006 Mister Miracle series , which has been named multiple times as the central book to read before Final Crisis ) .
Equally percipient are Best Woman For Job – A Man , which ties into this summer ’s Wonder Woman plot line where it ’s decided that Wonder Woman has failed in her mission to convey peace to the world and needs to be replace with a man called The Olympian ; 1,000/3 = 1 , a reference to Final Crisis : Legion of 3 Worlds , which convey three different worlds of 1000 age in the future together ; you could Go Home Again , tying into this summer ’s Justice Society of America Annual , which takes Power Girl back to a version of her home planet , Earth 2 ; I Am Batman?/I Am Bruce Wayne ? , about Wayne ’s identity crisis in Batman : R.I.P. ; The Dead Shall Rise , the already - annunciate tagline of next year ’s The Blackest Night plot line ; and Sightings All Around Us , which is a yell - out to DC ’s unexampled “ Sightings ” branding for declared - important comic strip .
Everything else , though , is a small more shaky – 52 – 1 = 0 could be about DC ’s 52 alternate terra firma , or simply pointing to last workweek ’s DC Universe Zero . Kings Reborn may be a denotation to the potential return of the original Aquaman , who was , after all , King of Atlantis , and Rockin ’ Robins just might be about which Robin get to become the new Batman . But the other ones … ? Here are our entirely baseless guesses :
100 % Alien – Something to do with the rumored death of fifties alien - amongst - us , the Martian Manhunter .
Who is Wonder Dog ? – Well , it used to beRex , Nazi - fightin ’ pup , but for some reason , I ’m see a Wonder Woman tie - in here …
There is No - One … Yet – in all probability a Final Crisis mention of some form , as is He Is The Force ( The “ astro - power ” being a Jack Kirby invention as is Crisis badguy Darkseid ) and He Wakes The World Ends .
The Son Rises – I ’ll be very surprised if this is n’t a reference to Damien , Batman ’s bastard son , in the wake of Batman R.I.P .. Same with Murder / Suicide , Father / Son , although that one could also apply to Final Crisis baddie Darkseid and his beneficial hombre son Orion .
The Traitor Among Us – Who better to have traitor ( and , for that topic , an “ us ” ) than a gang of villains ? It ’s either something to do with Final Crisis : Rogues ’ Revenge or Gail Simone ’s unexampled Secret Six serial .
No 2 For You is more than probable another Power Girl / Earth-2 / Justice Society of America yearly mention , as PG has to end up back on regular globe in time to establish her own serial publication this summertime , but 1 ( JSA ) 2 probably has more to do with the team ’s rumored falling out - up this summer .
Mercy Ruling and Who Questions the Question are both very likely to have something to do with Greg Rucka ’s Final Crisis : revelation series , where God ’s spirit of retribution , the Spectre , meets lesbian secret eye the dubiousness .
TT Have No Reception remind us all that there is n’t a Teen Titans cartoon any more . Or , perhaps , that the Titans comic will be spinning off something address Terror Titans this summertime , about some unpopular teenaged badguys … whereas Titans , the other TT - spinoff playscript is dealing with the eeeevil reborn Trigon , who just may be 4 Times As Red in his newfangled incarnation .
No Glory No Gold seems to be a shout - out to the Booster Gold series in some fashion , while Paper Not Plastic feels suspiciously like a reference to a revived Plastic Man for some reason … dear than Rocket Vs . Satellite , which suggests that the JLA ’s spacebound main office is soon not going to be alone up there .
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The last two , however , are just weird : Superman : Red or Blue ? is , I go for , hints that we ’ll ultimately investigate Superman ’s political preference ( have ’s front it ; he ’s an Obama valet de chambre . You make out it , I know it , it ’s pretty obvious ) or else of rehash the sometime Superman - gets - rip - in - two storyline we ’ve seen at least twice before , and I am convinced that Post No Bills is there strictly to have intercourse with us .
But now that we ’ve put ourselves out there , why do n’t you tell us what you conceive the gameboard is all about ? We should n’t be the only 1 embarrassed about how off - pedestal our suggestions are this time next year , after all .
Dan DiDio on DC Universe # 0[Newsarama ]
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