Well folks, time to break out those “Rich Johnston Was Right” t-shirts.
“Convergence” was announced this morning at USA Today by DC Comics, and it sounds an awful lot like what Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool had been saying it was going to resemble. The event features forty two-part stories, anchored by a 9 part weekly series, written by TV veteran (and comics virgin) Jeff King (White Collar, Stargate: SG-1, Continuum) and DC mainstay Dan Jurgens, with plotting help from Scott Lobdell. The article summarizes the plot thusly:
Convergence spins out of the April 1 finales of the Earth 2: World’s End and The New 52: Futures End weekly series. The alien supervillain Brainiac has 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.
The article specifically mentions characters like the Ted Kord Blue Beetle, Donna Troy, and the Justice Society of America as being characters that have been gone since the start of the New 52 that will have a role in the event. (Note: isn’t “Earth 2” the JSA, more or less? That seems like an odd one to declare as missing, as they’re currently starring in a weekly series and a monthly series) The article also teases a new villain, Telos, that is “born of that world” and will be a major focal point of the series.
It is unclear what this means for the current DC timeline, or what the 40 miniseries will be, or what creative teams will be covering them. Aside from the named writers, the only other creator we can presume is Carlo Pagulayan, an artist who has never worked for DC before, who drew the image linked in the USA Today story. Pagulayan has worked for Marvel for some time, doing work on “Iron Man,” “Marvel Knights: Elektra,” and various Hulk books, to name a few.
Pagulayan’s piece shows, much like in the last page of “Superman: Doomed” #2, various peaks into past DC timelines, from “Flashpoint” to pre-“Crisis on Infinite Earths.” Feel free to try to identify all of the components in the comments, and look for more coverage on this event as news breaks.
