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Convergence
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
ScheduleWeekly
FormatLimited series
Genre
Publication dateApril – May 2015
No. of issues88, plus a 0 issue
Main character(s)Batman
Superman
Wonder Woman
Brainiac
Telos
Creative team
Written byJeff King

Convergence is a two-month weekly limited series, published by DC Comics, that begins in April 2015 and is scheduled to run through to the end of May 2015. Convergence spins out of the final issues of the weekly series, Earth 2: World's End and The New 52: Futures End. The story involves Brainiac having trapped cities from various timelines and planets that have ended, brought them in domes to a planet outside of time and space, and "is now opening them for a great experiment to see what happens when all these folks meet." Notable during this event will be the return of DC Characters from before the "Flashpoint" storyline of 2011 that led to creation of The New 52 Universe.

Publication history

In April 2014, Dan Didio, co-publisher of DC Comics announced that the weekly comic series that were currently being published (or soon to be published in the case of The New 52: Futures End and Earth 2: World's End), would be ending in the last week of March 2015, with Batman Eternal going into an unspecified hiatus.[1] Immediate speculations began concerning this decision with most pundits agreeing that an event of some sort was being planned.

With the realization that the operations of DC Comics were going to be moved to Burbank, California in April 2015, some began to draw a link with the end of the weeklies. Speculation arose that DC Comics was planning to bring back the pre-"Flashpoint" universe and for some months of 2014 the event (in lieu of a definitive name) became known as the DC Band Aid. This name, popularized by Bleedingcool.com, became the de facto name of the event.[2] Though DC Comics denied they were creating an event to fix the continuity errors that arose from some pre-"Flashpoint" stories carrying over from the old Universe into The New 52, the Band Aid became the subject of intense speculation.[2]

Some remembered the April 14 release of a poster by DC Comics which stated "When Future's End...The Blood Moon Shall rise!" This lead to the Band Aid becoming known as the Blood Moon for a short time.[3] Others saw the upcoming release of Grant Morrison's Multiversity in August 2014 and its scheduled completion in March 2015 as a sign that the event would have a multiverse focus. In fact with 2015 being the 30th anniversary of DC Comics' first company-wide cross over, Crisis on Infinite Earths, some thought a revisiting of the concept was likely.[4]

On November 3, 2014, DC Comics chose to end months of speculation by announcing the Convergence miniseries. Not only would the event serve as a concluding event to The New 52: Futures End and Earth 2: World's End, but it would indeed involve characters from the pre-"Flashpoint" universe, but with a twist. That twist being the involvement of Brainiac and his acquisition of access to all of DC Comics' current and previous timelines after torturing the location of Vanishing Point out of Booster Gold in Booster Gold: Future's End #1.[5] Conceived as a weekly series in April and May 2015, Convergence will begin with a #0 issue and run for eight issues. Additionally, DC Comics also announced that during the event, all regular comics will be put on hiatus and replaced with 40 different two-part miniseries tie-ins, featuring a variety of historical characters and events throughout DC's entire publishing history.

Throughout November 2014, DC Comics began announcing each of these tie-ins in blocks of 10 in tandem with various websites. The list of titles includes a vast array of creators, many of whom have a previous association with the pre-New 52 versions of characters. Each comic will involve different iconic DC characters under Brainiac's domes having to suddenly contend with the invasion of multiverse characters, such as those from pre-"Flashpoint",[6] Zero Hour,[7] Tangent,[8] and pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths timelines.[9]

Premise

Set on a world outside time and space, Brainiac has used his access to Vanishing Point to roam the history of the DC Universe. Using it to abduct heroes from different lost and defunct eras (pre-Flashpoint, pre-Zero Hour and pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths) and across the multiverse, Brainiac amasses a collection of 40 cities. Taking them to this mysterious world within domes (very much like the one that he has kept the city of Kandor from Krypton in over DC publication history) he opens them to see what happens. The ensuing chaos pits various DC heroes and villains and their historic or multiverse counterparts against each other as a villain known as Telos arises to take advantage of it all.

Aftermath

The aftermath of Convergence will see an end to The New 52 imprint, however the continuity established within the branding will continue onward in the future. After the event wraps up, beginning on June 3, 2015, the DC Comics line of comic books will consist of 24 brand-new series that will begin at issue number one. Alongside these new additions, the company will continue publishing 25 of their existing ongoing titles, all of which will maintain their current numbering and storylines.[10] After the announcement of the overhaul of DC Comic's publishing line, Dan DiDio compared the company's plans for post-Convergence stories to Infinite Crisis.[11] In a Facebook post, he stated that "[i]n terms of expectations and challenges, the lessons learned in the 'One Year Later jump' were applied to insure our June series (hopefully) don't experience some of the same pitfalls."[11]

Titles

References

  1. ^ Ching, Albert (April 21, 2014). "DiDio Says All Three Weekly DC Series Will End in March 2015". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Johnston, Rich (July 18, 2014). "Is This What The DC Band-Aid Is All About? - Bottle Earths!". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  3. ^ Rogers, Vaneta (September 14, 2014). "UPDATE: DC Co-Publishers Tease April 2015 Event, 'Break From Our Line'". Newsarama. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  4. ^ Siegel, Lucas (April 5, 2014). "Update: DC Comics Teases FUTURES END, Releases July 2014 Solicitations". Newsarama. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  5. ^ Truitt, Brian (November 3, 2014). "New villain, old tales part of DC's 'Convergence'". USA TODAY. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Beedle, Tim (November 11, 2014). "Convergence Week One: Stephanie Brown, Wally West and Oracle Return to Comics!". DCComics.com. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Beedle, Tim (November 18, 2014). "Convergence Week Two: Steel, Azrael, Hal Jordan Parallax...and Kingdom Come?!". DCComics.com. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Beedle, Tim (November 25, 2014). "Convergence Week Three: A Little Pre-Crisis Coolness". DCComics.com. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Beedle, Tim (December 2, 2014). "Convergence Week Four: Batman, Beetle and Booster". DCComics.com. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  10. ^ "DC ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES NEW BOOKS, NEW CREATORS, BROADER FOCUS FOR THE DC UNIVERSE". DCComics.com. February 6, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  11. ^ a b Melrose, Kevin (February 9, 2015). "DiDio compares DC's post-'Convergence' plans to 'Infinite Crisis'". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
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