Today is the day ! DC Rebirth # 1 is out , and with it , a crazy new chapter begins in the chronological record of DC Comics ’ long and storied account . There ’s a flock of big teases in this huge 80 - varlet special — we’ve scan through the whole thing and broke down the biggest reveals , and what they might think for DC ’s multiverse move onward .
Wally West Is One With the Speed Force…
DC Hero of Alexandria permeate with the Speed Force are really high-risk at dying . Wally West , the original Kid Flash who vanished when the New 52 was created at the climax of Flashpoint , is just the former speedster not to have just died like everyone thought , but to have become part of the same energy that gave him his superspeed powers , just as Barry Allen did before him .
Wally spends most of the exit as part of the Speed Force , attempting to admonish his booster that something is horribly awry . He ’s occasionally capable to yank himself back into reality to appear to people he used to know : Batman , Johnny Thunder ( an sure-enough school DC hero who was a member of the Justice Society ) , and eventually the love of his life , Linda Park . unhappily , Wally ’s time in the genuine human race is scant every fourth dimension he appears , and none of the the great unwashed he encounters with his admonition can commemorate who he is .
…But Now He’s Back
… except Barry . Wally claver his mentor and hero last — grief - stricken after Linda ca n’t remember him — as a concluding adios before the Speed Force begins to devour him . Just as Wally say his farewell , Barry recognise who he is , a remembrance powerful enough that it does n’t just make Wally whole again but makes Barry begin to call up constituent of the old Pre-52 universe , like the original Teen Titans and the event of Flashpoint ( being the sad - sack he is , Barry immediately take up it ’s all his fault ) .
But Wally ’s return also means there are now two Wally Wests in continuity : the original , and the young Wallace West , Wally ’s cousin , who has been Kid Flash in the New 52 . Young Wally will continue to be Kid Flash in Damian Wayne ’s Teen Titans in Rebirth , while Older Wally will join the Titans ( a.k.a the no - longer - teen Titans ) . Not as confusing as it sounds !
There Have Been Three Jokers
But let ’s make like a time - traveling speedster and rewind a little , because Wally ’s revitalisation go on quite a bit later on in Rebirth # 1 . While he attempts to break through to Bruce Wayne in the opening chapter of the issue , we teach something rather alarming . Batman is watching reports about Superman ’s sudden absence ( more on that in a bit ) when Alfred interrupts him with a scary report card : The Joker is loose in Civic City . But it ’s what Batman reply with that ready off alarm Melville Bell , as he tells Alfred that the Joker was catch in Baltimore , and is on his way to incarceration at Arkham . How can there be two Jokers at once ?
https://gizmodo.com/batman-learns-the-jokers-biggest-secret-in-justice-leag-1717992429
There is n’t . There ’s three . Batman reveals thatwhen he concisely became the God of Knowledge , the all - powerful chair that bestowed him godhood unveil that the Joker is not a individual person . Three people are or have been the Dark Knight ’s archfoe . We see images of Jerry Robinson ’s original Joker , the Joker as draw by Brian Bolland in The Killing Joke , and finally Greg Capullo and Scott Snyder ’s New52 - era take on the character . Today ’s issue of Justice League has more answer about the Joker ’s unfeigned nature , but it looks like Batman is going to have his hand full with his most iconic foe . Err , foes .
The Current Superman Is Gone
As cite above , Superman is take some major problems of his own … like not being around any more .
We ’ve known for a while that the New 52 version of Superman is going away — prospicient story poor , he ’s currently snuff it . Today ’s issue of Superman will see him battle a metahuman who believes he ’s the real Superman , and it ’s a conflict that Clark Kent does not make it out of intact . Rebirth # 1 keeps it shadowy , with some background news report declare Superman as Missing in Action , while others — including the original Pre - New-52 Superman — believe him to be dead .
https://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-deal-with-superman-in-dc-comics-rebirth-1767578897
speak of which , this original battery-acid — the pre - novel 52 Superman , who deal to go into DC ’s new continuity , and has been living in privacy with his married woman Lois Lane and his Word — is hoping the death of Clark Kent does n’t intend he has to make himself know to the spacious world once more … but we already know that ’s going to happen . Original Clark also encounter into the mysterious entity known as Mr. Oz in this issue , who offers a sinister menace : both acid are not who they really mean they are . Dun - dun - dunnnn .
Legends Return
rent ’s return to Wally West ’s quest for a chip . While Wally is traversing the Speed Force across outer space and time , following his second attack at entering the real world , he shoot through a series of vignette that tease the return of some previously abstracted characters during the new 52 :
An nameless woman arrested by police , claiming to be from the future — and the proprietor of a Legion flight pack , the identifying jewelry worn by the 31st Century supergroup Legion of Superheroes
Ryan Choi , the 4th soul to become the Atom ( originally remove in the Brightest Day funnies event ) , who is tasked with rescue Ray Palmer — also the Atom!—from the microverse
Ted Kord , the longest - running holder of the Blue Beetle pall , working with current Blue Beetle Jamie Reyes to detect the secrets of Jamie ’s powers ( or hear to , at least )
Jackson Hyde , a.k.a Kaldur’ahm , the second Aqualad ( and the one who appear in the beloved animation series Young Justice ) , fight with his Mother ’s reply to both his powers and his sex
There may be even more characters who were swept aside for the New 52 reboot that might be return , but for now , these are the ones we have intercourse for sure are make a return post - Rebirth .
Love Wins
It ’s not just former darling characters that are coming back , but seemingly also a bequest of relationships lost by the New 52 — a repeated criticism of the reboot has long been that DC forced apart Graeco-Roman relationships that fans loved . Rebirth # 1 sustain at least one relationship is back on the cards , as Aquaman proposes to Mera , and intemperately hints at another , imply that Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance , despite barely jazz each other in the New 52 , are starting to remember that there used to be something more between them .
passion is a very important theme in Rebirth — it ’s Wally ’s love of Linda that keeps him going until his mettle is shatter by her not remember him . It speaks to the brighter , more hopeful flavour DC wants to inject into its comics again with the enterprise .
Wonder Woman Has a Twin Brother, I Guess?
This is literally covered in a individual page , and then give no further consequence — which is sadly par for the course for the main Wonder Woman series recently .
https://kotaku.com/so-what-about-wonder-woman-1702485105
The big revelation come from Grail , the daughter of Darkseid , who ’s act a large part in the Darkseid War event in the Justice League comic . She reveal to a baby Darkseid ( surprise , Darkseid is also back , and a baby ) that Wonder Woman ’s duplicate brother , Jason , has a great power that both Grail and Diana will presumptively be seeking out .
The New 52 Isn’t What It Seems
The reason that Wally West has been so dire to get back to his friends and reality itself is that he has a frightening warning . When the New 52 universe was created at the destruction of Flashpoint , a mysterious entity lashed out at the timeline , somehow steal 10 years of events and memories from being to weaken the world ’s heroes . It ’s this meddling that purportedly conduct to the fabled Cuban sandwich of DC ’s universe of discourse being mere novices when the New 52 began , rather than the established sub they were , as well as the disappearance of a multitude of eccentric ( like Wally ! ) .
Wally ’s subject matter go beyond that revelation , however , with another admonition that this same entity is preparing to strike out at the DC universe again , in what he tells Barry Allen will be a “ war between Leslie Townes Hope and desperation , love and numbness , faith and disbelief . ”
The Woman Who Created the New 52 Universe Is Dead
Wally ’s right of course — but this entity has already strike once again . We concisely see Pandora , the cosmic entity who help Barry Allen unify the timelines into the New 52 during Flashpoint , on the discharge from a cryptical foe .
She rails against the unseen enemy , declaring that the heroes of the world will put up for the hope and optimism this enemy opposes , and will block up him — but the immortal Pandora is obliterated into detritus … a manner of dying that will be all too familiar to comedian fans after the revelation at the end of the issue .
Who Watches the Watchmen?
While Wally delivers his dark portent to Barry , Rebirth # 1 takes us to Batman ’s Batcave for the first half of its final bombshell . Batman notices something glimmering in the corner of his centre while inspecting a letter given to him by the alternate version of his Church Father , Thomas Wayne , at the climax of Flashpoint , and digs it out of the wall to get a better face …
It ’s the bloodied badge of the Comedian , an iconic image from Alan Moore ’s seminal superhero study Watchmen . Moore , Dave Gibbons , and John Higgins ’ mediation on the superhero genre is still lauded as one of the fine amusing record book ever made , but its events have stay disjoined from the DC strip persistence ever since the series first released in 1986 … until now . Wally declares that the DC universe ’s enemy are watching them from beyond the veil , and those foes appear to be the Watchmen .
Doctor Manhattan Is Behind It All
Well , actually , it ’s a very specific member of the Watchmen that will meet an antagonistic office in stories to do . The final pages of Rebirth # 1 draw away from Earth to flex to Mars … and there we see the lookout of the man formerly known as Dr. Jonathan Osterman before his transmutation into the omnipotent Doctor Manhattan . The egress ends with famous line from Watchmen , a conversation between Adrian Veidt and Doctor Manhattan , as the hands of the watch ticking ever closer to midnight :
Veidt : I did the right matter , did n’t I ? It all work out in the end .
Dr. Manhattan : ‘ In the remainder ’ ? Nothing ends , Adrian . Nothing ever cease .
https://gizmodo.com/dc-comics-lifts-the-lid-on-dc-rebirths-big-new-revelati-1778185214
It ’s a crazy office — one we ’ll apparently have to follow for the next two years to detect in its entirety , fit in to Geoff Johns . But believe Alan Moore ’s relationship with DC Comics irrevocably shattered over the right to Watchmen , this move in all probability makes him all the more furious with the troupe . We ’ll probably be hear about all that in the very near futurity .
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