Author Joshua Williamson explains why he wished Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths to be a Teen Titans-focused story in an unique CBR interview.
Warning: The next incorporates spoilers for Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, on sale now from DC.
Dark Crisis author Joshua Williamson instructed CBR the occasion primarily put characters comparable to Nightwing/Dick Grayson and Jon Kent/Superman within the highlight as a way to give the Teen Titans their time to shine.
In a current unique interview with CBR, Williamson was requested about what impressed him to make Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths extra of a Teen Titans-centered story as a substitute of specializing in the Justice League. “Plenty of instances, these characters do not get to be concerned in these massive tales. So from the very starting, I used to be like, ‘Let’s present that standpoint.’ It is about making it completely different. It was fascinating to see a number of the responses, the place folks had been complaining like, ‘Oh, this is not a disaster like I’ve seen earlier than.’ However on the similar time, they’re like, ‘Effectively, we wish one thing completely different.’ And I am like, ‘Effectively, which is it?’ That is what I used to be doing right here. I do not need it to really feel like these different Crisis occasions. As a result of if it did, we might all the time be simply repeating ourselves.
“…Simply with the ability to do completely different characters, like the truth that it is an occasion that realistically stars Nightwing, Black Adam, and Jon Kent… It would not star Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman. It is not about Hal Jordan — although he performs a very main function within the story. It is not simply in regards to the heavy hitters. It wasn’t simply the headliners, however that is a part of what the story is about. These characters had been off the desk. For a very long time, a number of these characters form of obtained smashed down, so I used to be like, ‘Let’s present them rising up.’ That is what this was about. I’ve seen these occasions [and] these tales.”
Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths Sees Nightwing Take Cost
When Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are defeated by Pariah and assumed lifeless in Justice League #75, Nightwing and Jon lead a cost to create a brand new group of heroes to guard the planet from Deathstroke and the Nice Darkness. When charging into battle exterior the Corridor of Justice in Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5, Dick particularly calls this newly assembled group the “Titans” somewhat than the Justice League or Justice Society of America.
In Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, Batman tells Dick the Justice League has disbanded in the meanwhile and that he is the hero to guide them into the long run. Solicitation info for Nightwing #101 (by Tom Taylor and Travis Moore), which releases Feb. 21, 2023, additionally signifies Dick will quickly be main a brand new, “premiere league” Titans group out of Blüdhaven.
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