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When DC Comics decided to reboot their full universe of Justice League grinder and baddie in the launch ofThe New 52 , fan were divided . Now that the on-key force behind theDC Rebirthhas been revealed , it ’s prescribed : even the heroes themselves now realizeThe New 52 was always designate to give way .
On the one hand , this is sure to be a fourth dimension of establishment , defence , and relief for the fans who always feltthe New 52 reboot was a tough idea- it ’s not every day that a comic publishing company confirms that a reboot was a bad , blemished , and unsafe idea they ’ve been golden to survive to this peak . But that ’s exactly what has taken place inDoomsday Clock # 9 , as theWatchmenmastermind behind the younger , fresher , and ' hip ' heroes of the New 52 has realize his fatal mistakes .
ensure the DC canyon officially take that the New 52 is doomed might be fun for some … but what happens when it lastly give-up the ghost ? To explain that , DC fans are run short to need a bit of an explanation . Time to take notes .
DC Rebirth Confirmed: The New 52 is Wrong
The toleration of defeat is n’t pretty , so we ’ll or else focus on the positives . If DC ’s New 52 was a bad idea , or at the very least a blemished one after the fact , that was thrown into sharpest rest period by the success and acclaim , both creatively and commercially , of the recentDC Rebirth . An editorial directive spearheaded by Geoff Johns himself , theRebirthgathered the industry ’s top writers and artists to rejoin DC ’s hero to their core . In unretentive , to confuse the New 52 constraints out the window , and enjoin the single better story they could with their assign character . And the results were gangbusters .
If Geoff Johns ' opinion on the New 52 was assume before , it was spoken of freely afterRebirthstruck . Returning the DC reference to their roots was a conscious reception to what he perceived as a universe that had misplace its way . By make the DC Universe younger , and less connected to its account , the heroes , teams , and even scoundrel had been diminish . For most , such an admission of defeat would be damage . But for Geoff Johns , it was an chance to separate a much larger story .
AsDC Universe : Rebirthrevealed , the payoff of Wally West triggered a wave of realization that all was not right . That the DC Universe was weaker than it should be … and that it was no fortuity , but the solution of reality being warped by aWatchmenicon .
The New 52 is Dr. Manhattan’s Master Plan
At the sentence , many lover and critics alike applauded Geoff Johns ' pivot man , turning the publisher ’s grownup error in the innovative era into the preliminary to a monolithic , headline grabbing story : bring theWatchmencharacters into official DC canyon . And even more , suggesting that Doctor Manhattan ’s exit to " create some life " at the end of Alan Moore ’s in writing novel led him straight to DC ’s realness . The incredible mystery was promised to be excuse in the particular miniseriesDoomsday Clock- and at long last , it finally has been .
The mystery has been teased already , with Doctor Manhattan killing the Reverse - Flash , and the Justice League trailing Doctor Manhattan to the moonlight . But inDoomsday Clock # 9 , the story is last told from Manhattan ’s point of view , unwrap that the New 52 Was his inspiration … and his greatest failure . Needless to say , majorSPOILERSincoming …
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The New 52: Dr. Manhattan’s Biggest Mistake
TheDoomsday Clockseries has still not clarified exactly what Dr. Manhattan was thinking when he decided to redo the reality of the DC Universe - no surprisal to Watchmen fans , since his unwillingness to excuse himself or his idea summons became a major character element . However , theDoomsday Clockseries HAS uncover the actions he strike to make it chance , and how the repercussions have spin wildly out of even Manhattan ’s control . And it all started with the dying of one Golden Age superhero .
Prior to Rebirth andDoomsday Clock , it was take on that The Flash ’s attack to reconstruct the timeline afterFlashpointis what create the New 52 . But in reality , it was Dr. Manhattan ’s murder of Alan Scott , the first Green Lantern . fan can spin around their own theories as to Manhattan ’s mentation ( having see his own world tear itself apart over superheroes , perhaps he reckon to remove them from the equating ) . Needless to say , his actions have result in eventualities he can now no longer see . No Green Lantern , no Justice Society . No Society , no League . No League , no Legion a millenary into the hereafter . And in that future without superheroes , Manhattan can no longer see … well , anything .
The New 52 Universe is Doomed To Die
Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank had previously hinted at Dr. Manhattan ’s break visions of the future , teasing the last look-alike he actually does see : Earth ’s corking hoagie , it ’s greatest symbolic representation of hope … having lost all Bob Hope , embracing rage , and attacking Manhattan with a yellowish - sun powered puncher befuddle with more anger and hatred than any before . Or , apparently , any cast after . Because after Manhattan ’s vision of Superman ’s punch set just one week from now in the DC Comics timeline , he ’s unable to see anything at all .
anterior toDoomsday Clock # 9 , Manhattan had chalked that up to one of two possibility : either Superman deliver the goods in defeating him , and kill him in a way that foreclose him from restructure himself . The other alternative ? That Manhattan has so seriously misestimate , he accidentally finish up demolish everything , leave nothing in the hereafter for him to see at all . His death might be the simplest explanation , a raw cue offered in this payoff suggests Manhattan ’s efforts to pull through the DC Universe by creating the New 52 are actually what doomed it from the start .
A short sequence of control panel ( visible above ) show Manhattan holding the ring of Ferro Lad in his decoration , after the appendage of the Legion of Super Heroes sacrifices himself to save the sun one thousand years into the futurity ( propelling the ring rearward in fourth dimension ) . Readers are shown Manhattan ’s minute of realization , after he prevents Alan Scott from becoming Green Lantern … and the tintinnabulation go away .
It would be bad enough to realise that the Legion of Super Heroes never survive in this timeline - a mentation their fans have been stewing over ever since the New 52 erased them - but it gets bad . Upon probe , it was then that Manhattan agnize no humans was even leave behind for Ferro Lad TO save . Not a millenary into the future tense . Not a one C . Not a ten . The New 52 he made is destine to give way because it is n’t strong enough .
Which means fans have no alternative go forth but to wait and see how Johns’Doomsday Clocksets things right . Only then can DC ’s new eld survive despite Manhattan ’s unsuccessful person , and go away the New 52 behind for commodity .
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