David Bridges
As a part of its solicitations for the month of September 2024, DC has unveiled I Know What You Did Final Disaster, a wonderfully titled horror anthology that includes in-continuity tales “set in the course of the occasions of crises previous”—DC’s catch-all time period for cataclysmic occasions meant to streamline its universe’s ever-increasingly convoluted continuity.
This implies occasions like Disaster on Infinite Earths, Remaining Disaster, Infinite Disaster, Flashpoint, Blackest Night time, Zero Hour, and numerous others will obtain the Tales of the Crypt therapy, through which a revolving door of DC’s beloved characters out of the blue discover themselves in an unrecognizable world warped by the machinations of inter-dimensional gods, or Superboy punching the partitions of actuality. Right here’s the synopsis:
Within the blackest night time, when the darkness feels infinite, the very cloth of the universe begins to tear…as each main disaster in DCU historical past rises as soon as once more! These eight chilling tales, set in the course of the occasions of crises previous, serve to warn you, pricey reader: when in disaster, watch your again. Within the fractured world of Flashpoint, Professor Pyg is stalking Gotham Metropolis’s nightclubs, sniffing out victims! Throughout Blackest Night time, Scarecrow lurks outdoors a movie show, recruiting new take a look at topics to excellent his concern toxin! Even heroes like Nightwing aren’t protected when his demise would possibly simply have the facility to reverse the injury of Infinite Disaster! All these, plus new tales from Disaster on Infinite Earths, Millennium, Zero Hour, The Remaining Night time, and Remaining Disaster are collected in DC’s I Know What You Did Final Disaster, a lethal new horror anthology coming to hang-out you this fall!
That includes tales by Dan DiDio, Rex Ogle, Dave Wielgosz, Rachel Pinnelas, Matthew Levine with artwork by Dan Hipp, M.L. Sanapo, Adam Graphite, Sid Kotian, Will Robson, Jordi Tarragona, and extra, the solicit appears promising, if maybe a bit of unambitious.
Setting creepy characters like Professor Pyg and the Scarecrow free because the world crumbles round them isn’t too completely different from the serial killer-meets-natural catastrophe style, examples of which embrace the Lifetime channel’s Psycho Storm-Chaser or the Fox Household Channel’s Earthquake in New York. Nightwing considering his personal demise additionally doesn’t really feel prefer it takes full benefit of the guide’s reality-warping conceit, however we’ll discover out when I Know What You Did Final Disaster hits cabinets this October 2. Share a few of your concepts for Disaster-inspired horror tales within the feedback!
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