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Absolute Legion And Doomsday Set Up DC Comics' New Crisis (Spoilers)

Absolute Legion, Darkseid and Doomsday set up DC Comics' next Crisis in today's Justice League Unlimited and Superman (Spoilers)

This week sees the publication of Superman #27 by Joshua Williamson, Eddy Barrows, Sean Izaakse and Justice League Unlimited #24 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, from DC Comics, as a suped-up Gorilla Grodd is fighting some damned dirty superhumans.

And both take a look at the impact of DC All-In, Darkseid's death, and the establishment of an Absolute world. While the first chapter of The New History Of The DC Universe by Mark Waid, Todd Nauck and Jerry Ordway seems to set up some of the groundwork.

Giving us the beginning of The Source, Perpetua, Monitor, Anti-Monitor and the World Forger. And two of those worlds forged? Apokalips and New Genesis, home of Darkseid.

And it is the death of Darkseid in All-In DC Special that is still causing ructions in Justice League Unlimited.

As Air-Wave grabs all the Justice Leaguers he can to defeat Gorilla Grodd. The New History of The DC Universe reminds us that he has form in this regard.

As Darkseid's Omega Fields are out of control…

And the Justice Leaguers from across time, grabbed by Air Wave, are left unable to go home…

That's right, folks, we are stuck withe Electric Blue Superman and Jonah Hex for some time to come it seems. But now it is time to turn to the Time Trapper. First created by Edmond Hamilton and John Forte in Adventure Comics #317 in 1964, Time Trapper is a powerful evil figure who exists at the End of Time whose ability to manipulate time made him an enemy to the Legion of Super-Heroes. who he violently hates, after being responsible for their creation. Several different people have been revealed as the Trapper's true identity, including Controller, Glorith, Rokk Krinn, Lori Morning, Superboy-Prime and most recently the Superman killer Doomsday, as time travel changes his identity with the fluctuating time streams. He also turns up at the end of Superman. Dealing with Darkseid's Legion, the Legion of the Absolute Universe, who have captured him.

With Booster Gold full of the same Omega Energy that Gorilla Grodd has access to. So with the Doomsday Time Trapper boasting of his immortality, he appears to have a mission.

And a need to find the World Forger. Well, handily, at the end of Justice Unlimited, The World Forger finds The Time Trapper.

Predicting an upcoming Crisis and the end of the everything…

How will all this tie together? And does iut help that Mark Waid is writing most of this?

Superman #27 by Joshua Williamson, Eddy Barrows, Sean Izaakse, Justice League Unlimited #24 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, and the first chapter of The New History Of The DC Universe by Mark Waid, Todd Nauck and Jerry Ordway are published today by DC Comics.

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #8
by Mark Waid and Dan Mora,
THE EPIC CROSSOVER FINALE! WE ARE YESTERDAY PART six (of six) The Justice League Unlimited stands alone as a wave of chronal mayhem crashes on the shores of their Watchtower base…but all hope is not yet lost! A last-minute mayday may just be enough to stem the tide…but for how long? Plus: the fate of Gorilla Grodd and a significant step toward the next major DCU event in the grand finale of We Are Yesterday, a special crossover with Batman/Superman: World's Finest!In Shops: Jun 25, 2025 SRP: $3.99

SUPERMAN #27
by Joshua Williamson, Eddy Barrows, Sean Izaakse
RED KRYPTONITE STRIKES! Nothing can stop Superman's Red K infection, so Lois Lane goes to the people who infected the Man of Steel in the first place…the Lex Luthor Revenge Squad. Dr. Pharm and Mr. Graft make a shocking return! Don't miss a key issue for the future of Superman and Lex Luthor!In Shops: Jun 25, 2025
SRP: $4.99

NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE #1 
(W) Mark Waid (A) Jerry Ordway, Todd Nauck (CA) Chris Samnee
LEARN THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE! In celebration of 90 years of DC, super fan and writer Mark Waid turns back time to the very beginning of the DC Universe in a four-issue miniseries drawn by some of DC's greatest artists and told by the newest chronicler of time, Barry Allen, the Flash! In our debut issue, Barry takes us from the very birth of the DC Universe to the rise of the Justice Society. The Golden Age of heroes begins here

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