UPDATE: DC Comics has released the full promo image for the Convergence event. Click to see it full size.
Comic book fans have a lot to be excited about! Today, DC Entertainment announces the next major DC Comics event: CONVERGENCE.
Comprising of a weekly comic book series with veteran TV writer Jeff King (Executive Producer of White Collar and Continuum) making his comic book debut as the lead writer on the 9-part series and 40 brand-new 2-part miniseries written and drawn by an exciting and diverse array of star talent, whose teams and titles will be announced in the coming weeks, CONVERGENCE is one of the most epic and inclusive events DC Comics has ever constructed—touching upon every facet of DC Comics’ rich publishing history.
If you’ve been reading THE NEW 52: FUTURES END and EARTH 2: WORLD’S END, now is the moment you’ve been waiting for. All things converge as readers get to experience the DC multiverse like never before—hundreds of heroes, hundreds of villains, numerous worlds, and universe altering events all in one place, one time.
Taking place outside of time and space—on the question mark, just below Earth 29 and above Chaos, on the Map of the Multiverse—and introducing the new villain—Telos, this massive event will be published throughout April and May.
Look for CONVERGENCE beginning April 1, 2015. CONVERGENCE #0 will be co-written by Jeff King and Dan Jurgens and be illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver. CONVERGENCE #1-8 will be written by Jeff King with art by Carlo Pagulayan and Stephen Segovia. All issues will include covers by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado.
What worlds do you think we’ll see? Here’s what we know exists so far:
0 – Presumably the number of Prime Earth, setting for most of the characters of the New 52
2 – The setting of the New 52 series, Earth 2
3 – Ravaged home of the Crime Syndicate
4 – Pax Americana, the Charlton characters including Captain Atom and Blue Beetle
5 – Thunderworld, home of the (all ages) Shazam family
6 – Setting of Just Imagine… Stan Lee Presents
7 – Home to the Thunderer, an Aboriginal version of Thor, and other Marvel Comics analogues
8 – Home to the Retaliators and the Extremists, analogues to the modern Marvel Comics Universe
10 – Earth X, home to Overman, the Nazi New Reichsmen, and the Freedom Fighters
11 – Home to Aquawoman, and a gender-swapped version of the Justice League
13 – A dark world, home to a Justice League led by Etrigan the Demon
16 – Earth-Me, and home to The Just, the next generation of the Justice League
18 – Setting of the Justice Riders family of characters
19 – Setting of the Gotham by Gaslight family of characters
20 – Home to Doc Fate and the Society of Super-Heroes, a pulp world
23 – The adopted planet of President Superman and a primarily African-American Justice League
26 – Home to Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew
29 – Bizarro World
30 – The adopted planet of the Red Son Superman
33 – The world formerly known as Earth Prime, our (readers’) world
36 – Home of the Justice 9, and a world where the Flash and Green Lantern are a homosexual couple
40 – Home to Vandal Savage and an evil version of the Society of Super-Heroes
41 – Home to Dino-Cop, Spore, and other analogues to 1990s Image Comics characters
42 – Home to chibi manga/lilliputian versions of the Justice League of America
43 – Home to the Red Rain family of characters
51 – The Jack Kirby Universe, home to Kamandi and OMAC
Not currently numbered, but known to exist are also the following earths:
1. An earth that features a version of the classic Earth Two Justice Society of America and their children, Infinity Inc.
2. An earth that features a version of post-Crisis DCU (up to, but not including Identity Crisis) that hosts the Justice League 3000
3. An earth that features the Legion of Super-Heroes
4. An earth that mimics Batman: the Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited universe (otherwise known as the Timm-verse)
5. An earth that features a version of the New Teen Titans, as imagined by Marv Wolfman and George Perez
6. An earth from which Lord and Lady Quark hail
7. A Flashpoint-inspired earth
8. A Kingdom Come-inspired earth
9. An earth featuring the characters from the Tangent Comics line