DC Joins Marvel In Revisiting The Past With Convergence, Coming April 2015

It doesn’t look like DC is going to revert to its pre-New 52 continuity, just as Marvel probably isn’t going to do a full reboot of its comics next year. But maybe both publishers have found a way for fans to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to giving them both classic and new iterations of their favorite characters.

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For Marvel, that means a new Secret Wars and numerous callbacks to some of its most famous stories. Today we got confirmation that DC is getting in on the nostalgia act too, thanks to an event that begins in April 2015 called Convergence. Newsarama calls it “essentially a combination of previous comic book events Crisis on Infinite Earths, Secret Wars, and Contest of Champions,” which should tell you in one sentence what to expect from this story, which features both Brainiac and a new villain named Telos.

Convergence has a logistical purpose beyond just trotting out another event, as its intended to help cover the time during which many DC staffers will be moving from New York to California. That might also be part of the reason that Jeff King, a rookie when it comes to comic books but a known TV commodity thanks to his role as head writer on White Collar, is helming the project. He’ll be assisted by Dan Jurgens and Scott Lobdell, two men who know their way around event comics.

And with basically nothing from DC’s past off-limits, the heroes gathered by Brainiac for Convergence will come from a number of different Earths that existed before the New 52. In the promo image you can see above, there are glimpses of the standard DC Earth before Flashpoint, the characters from Flashpoint, the original Earth-Two JSA (something this writer is definitely thrilled to see), the Charlton heroes of the pre-Crisis Earth-Four and the Tangent characters, among others. If your favorites aren’t there yet, chances are they will be.

I’ve maintained all along that DC has too much invested in the New 52 to dump the whole thing, and superhero comics should always try to move forward, even if the road is sometimes bumpy. Now it’s obvious that the Big Two both want to hedge their bets by reminding readers of what they enjoyed so much in the past without giving in and rushing back to it wholeheartedly.

Will it work? By this time next year, we’ll have our answer.

(via Newsarama)

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