Dark Crisis #1: Sneak Preview!
Writer: Joshua Williamson
Penciller & Inker: Daniel Sampere
Colorist: Alejandro Sánchez
Letterer: Tom Napolitano
Editor: Marie Javins
Our cover by Daniel Sampere and Alejandro Sánchez shows the “old guard” — Diana, Clark and Bruce — standing triumphantly in front of the “new guard” — Yara Flor, Jon Kent and Jace Fox. I don’t know anything about Yara or Jace, and I’m a little worried I’ll need to learn about them in order to understand this event.
This issue was given out on Free Comic Book Day and is 100% dedicated toward advertising DC’s big summer event of 2022. It contains three short stories, a checklist and a two-page ad for Dark Crisis. The first story is a quick little fight between Wally West and Clayface, accompanied with the news that the Justice League has apparently died. I know Joshua Williamson “killed them” in his recent run on Justice League, but I haven’t read that yet.
The second story is labeled a preview for Dark Crisis #1, so I think there’s a high chance we’ll see these pages repeated in that issue. But since we have them now, we might as well talk about them. Dick Grayson is speaking at a candlelight vigil in front of the Hall of Justice. The crowd in attendance is massive, full of just about every hero (and some villains) you could imagine. We can’t see Impulse in the crowd, but I think there’s a good chance he’s there, since Superboy, Wonder Girl and Robin are. But where we do see Impulse is in a two-page splash of a brief history of superheroes to accompany Dick’s speech.
One week after Dick’s speech, we see Wally and Jon battling Kobra, complaining about how brazen all the supervillain groups have been since the Justice League died. But Jon is even more worried that all of the “big heavies” have been keeping quiet so far.
And that’s it for the preview. The third story is a very brief history of the multiverse. The checklist promises a seven-issue Dark Crisis miniseries with tie-ins to The Flash and a slew of one-shots, in addition to a six-issue miniseries tantalizingly titled Dark Crisis: Young Justice. The whole event promises to wrap up in December. And just for fun, here’s that ad I mentioned:
So … yeah. This is going to be a big deal. And it looks like Impulse will be right in the middle of it. I didn’t like everything Williamson did on The Flash, but I did appreciate how he kept trying to bring Bart back. So I am glad that he’s in charge of this event. And even though I get tired of DC slapping the word “crisis” on every other story, I will allow myself to be cautiously optimistic about this. It’s been a long time since I’ve really been excited about a comic book event.
Luckily, we do have something to entertain us while we wait for those comics. Next time, we’ll return to Young Justice: Phantoms for another quick, but important cameo of Kid Flash.
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