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welt yourselves in , DC Comics fans : theDoomsday Clockis tickingdown to the truth of DC’sRebirth / Watchmenbombshells entirely revealed . After DC’sRebirthbegan with the revelation that Dr. Manhattan was pulling the strings behind the scenes of the New 52 Universe , fans know that Ge0ff Johns was setting DC ’s heroes up for one heck of a drop . The other shoe will be drop withDoomsday Clockexplaining whyDr . Manhattan continues to kill DC icons , and at San Diego Comic - Con , Johns dropped several hints at the shocking cameos , conflict , andWatchmenstars that will forever transfer the nature of the DC Universe .
During a spotlight panel centre on Johns ’s career , DC co - publishing company Dan DiDio settle to take in out some details concerningDoomsday Clockin a less than schematic personal manner . For fans , it meant more than half a dozen images from the first effect bring to life story by artists Gary Frank and Brad Anderson - images that have gratefully now been officially unloose by DC . The art go hand in hand with Johns ’s closemouthed story , which he gratefully tease through a smattering of details , reveals , and hints at the patch , conflict , andmain characters ofDoomsday Clock .
Johns explained that as mysterious as it may be now , lecturer will screw exactly what the story ofDoomsday Clockwill be concerned with"from the first page . “Apparently that begins with the very first panel , reveal to be a intimate image from theWatchmenworld - with a twist : the infamous " The close is Nigh " sign carried by Rorschach ( in street dress ) in Alan Moore ’s originalWatchmen . But with the star sign now scan " The End is Here , " the tragedies that pass off in the serial - set one year ahead of DC ’s current persistence - may be bigger than your typical limited series .
The mystery twirl out from there , with the next board depicting a woman ’s face conceal by shadow . But before comic fans lead off to deliberate who this mystery woman may be , Johns did state:“I’ll just say that ’s a newfangled character … and she ’s in a prison cellphone . “When the follow panel showed a yap torn in a prison ’s chain link fencing , Johns clarified that " … maybe she ’s not in a prison jail cell . “The fact that the woman is n’t an exist character helps dominate out the thought that it’sRebirth ’s Saturn Girl of the Legion of Superheroes , while the traditional prison rules out her incarceration at the bridge player of the as mystic Mr. Oz .
The most intriguing panel may be the one depicting a stopped railcar absent of any human anatomy . Johns teased that , have it off the setting and chronicle smother the vista , Gary Frank ’s artistic production and Brad Anderson ’s coloring are order the story every bit as much as the script:“Right here : the slant , the car ’s still running , you see the smoke , you see the manhole cover up somewhat undetermined , you see the file that spilled out of the car . Whoever leave that car left in an abominable hurry and did n’t bother to take the key . "
The other two teases mountain range from potentiallymassivelyintriguing to slightly expect ( but nonetheless exciting ) . The shot of the Daily Planet globe confirms that the story will begin in Superman ’s backyard . When require if the story would admit Superman , Johns proceed a footstep further , clarifying that"Superman IS the story . “With the other photo showing an decade - ray and a bright spot in the patient ’s skull … Johns would n’t go any further than clear up that someone is ill . No idea exactlywho , but with a paladin who ’s indue with the ability so see in X - ray vision , anyone is potential .
The biggest reveal , at least for those who are prone to conspiracy theories and speculation , came in the panel ’s final second . accord to Johns , he had clear one raider - y bit of a tease with Gary Frank ’s approval . While it ’s still not officially announced that Batman , let alone the integral Justice League will be making the leap intoWatchmen / Manhattan lunacy along with Superman , Johns revealed one other major DC Comics character who will get a peak behind the drapery : Lex Luthor .
" I love seeing the smartest man from one world talk to the overbold man from another . And the smartest man from [ DC ’s ] world is Lex Luthor … and that ’s all I ’ll say . "
And with that , Johns confirmed thatDoomsday Clockwill be , in one way or another , a tale of parallel worlds mixing fiber and conflicts . How a story with Superman at its heart will pull Lex Luthor into the chronicle is something the writer is keep close to his pectus , but if the " other humanity " in his sentence is the extension to theWatchmencontinuity it seem to be , Adrian Veidt a.k.a . Ozymandias seems the obvious candidate .
The question then becomes : if Lex Luthor is still a heroic - leaning character in Rebirth , and Dr. Manhattan is the antagonist … will the heroes of the DCU be team up with Adrian Veidt against him ? That ’s a interrogative sentence we do n’t expect to see answered any sentence shortly .
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Doomsday Clockbegins on November 23 , 2017 .
