As a part of its solicitations for the month of September 2024, DC has unveiled I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a wonderfully titled horror anthology that includes in-continuity tales “set throughout the occasions of crises previous”—DC’s catch-all time period for cataclysmic events meant to streamline its universe’s ever-increasingly convoluted continuity.
This implies occasions like Disaster on Infinite Earths, Closing Disaster, Infinite Disaster, Flashpoint, Blackest Evening, Zero Hour, and numerous others will obtain the Tales of the Crypt therapy, by which a revolving door of DC’s beloved characters all of the sudden 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 evening, 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 throughout 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 Evening, Scarecrow lurks outdoors a movie show, recruiting new check topics to good his concern toxin! Even heroes like Nightwing aren’t secure when his loss of life would possibly simply have the ability to reverse the injury of Infinite Disaster! All these, plus new tales from Disaster on Infinite Earths, Millennium, Zero Hour, The Closing Evening, and Closing 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 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 embody the Lifetime channel’s Psycho Storm-Chaser or the Fox Household Channel’s Earthquake in New York. Nightwing considering his personal loss of life additionally doesn’t really feel prefer it takes full benefit of the ebook’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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