How can this amazing teaser image just released by DC Comics not remind me of Charlton Heston's emotional reaction at the end of Planet of the Apes? Well, clearly, it can't not!
And while I'm sure the significance of many of the details shown there are lost on most, trust me that this is the sort of thing that sends shivers down the spine of DC geeks like me! After all, why's Superman crying? What's up with the alternate Batman getup - from a What If? like Elseworlds series, if I recall correctly? What are the dead bodies doing there, since some of those people died awhile back? And of course, how'd the Statue of Liberty get all broke??
Possibly related: last week, all DC comics had a puzzle in them that I found ridiculously easy to solve - you simply took the first letter of every third word and it spelled out a message - the solution of which was a cryptic comment indicating that the multiverse still exists, despite seemingly being destroyed (again!) in last year's Infinite Crisis series. The multiverse was originally destroyed in 1986's Crisis on Infinite Earths, after which there were no more Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-3, Earth-S, etc. Rumour had it that fans were quite jazzed at the thought of DC's multiverse returning last year, and then disappointed when it was disgarded once again. I certainly include myself in that group. Further rumour had it that DC is capitulating on this topic and has plans to bring the multiple Earth concept back, as hinted at in various comics over the last several months, since Infinite Crisis ended. The above-mentioned crypto-gram seems to cement that notion, although I have no idea just how it's going to play out just yet. But I wouldn't be surprised if the image shown here has something to do with it, since at least two of the characters - Batman, and the Red Robin figure to the left of Green Arrow - appear to be from alternate histories of the DC Universe. Fun, eh!
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