In final month’s Justice League #75, each energetic member of the Justice League—sure, even Superman, Batman and Marvel Girl—is seemingly killed in a battle with Pariah and the Darkish Military, leaving the remainder of Earth’s heroes to mourn and check out to determine what occurs now. In any case, dying within the DC Universe isn’t something new. Heck, even dying throughout the ranks of the Justice League is pretty commonplace. (We’ve run articles about it and all the things.) However dying hitting all the World’s Biggest Tremendous Heroes ? That’s unprecedented.

As such, it’s not precisely stunning that the heroes who survived are not sure how one can react. Ought to they be mourning and remembering the fallen? Ought to they be getting ready to face the Nice Darkness themselves? In any case, if the Justice League wasn’t in a position to cease it, then it’s nonetheless coming. Or ought to they merely be persevering with on as typical, sure that the so-called “useless” heroes of the Justice League will quickly return, identical to they’ve all performed up to now? It’s clear that even for superheroes, dying and the sentiments that encompass it are difficult.

That is the compelling topic that’s explored in subsequent week’s Darkish Disaster prologue, Justice League: Highway to Darkish Disaster, an anthology one-shot that includes the work of among the hottest names in comics, together with Darkish Disaster author Joshua Williamson. Highway to Darkish Disaster boasts 5 distinct tales that every tie immediately in with Darkish Disaster, offering some essential context and element on lots of the occasion’s most necessary characters. Considered one of these tales, the Willamson-written and Dan Jurgens-drawn “Workforce-Up” seems in on Dick Grayson and Jon Kent shortly after the League’s demise. For these younger heroes, the dying of the staff is frighteningly private—and but, their methods of responding to it couldn’t be extra totally different. Sure, everybody offers with dying otherwise, however is it doable that Nightwing isn’t taking issues significantly sufficient?

Be happy to determine for your self, as we’re happy to current this opening story for you right here in full. Give it a glance, then hit up your native comedian store subsequent week so you possibly can seize the complete subject. In any case, with the Justice League gone and a Darkish Disaster on the best way, you’re going to need to be as ready as you possibly can…

JUSTICE LEAGUE: ROAD TO DARK CRISIS #1

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Justice League: Highway to Darkish Disaster #1, that includes “Workforce-Up” by Joshua Williamson, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund and Hello-Fi, is obtainable Tuesday, Could 31 in print and as a digital comedian guide.