psmithers said:
So we know that there's another big event coming at or after the end of 52. Let's collect what we think we know so far; I'll start:
1. Somebody is running around calling himself Supernova, and we'll find out who he is in the first issue of a new comic.
2. Space sector 3601 contains a pathway to some other place, that the Guardians have known about since before they created the Manhunters, i.e. it isn't a consequence of COIE or IC. The path may be related to the Fourth World somehow, since Hank Henshaw learned of it while he was imprisoned in the Source Wall;
3. Whatever 52 (aka fiifff-ddeee-tooo or something like that) is, the Dominators know about it in the future.
4. Devilance implied that the starlost heroes saw something outside the 52 walls of heaven, so they have to die.
5. Skeets kicked one of Booster Gold's ancestors into a time warp for reasons unknown, but whatever happened (happens?) as a result didn't (won't) erase Booster from existance.
6. Skeets subsequently went nuts and killed people in Metropolis, trying tio lure out "an enemy". Presumably the enemy isn't Supernova, or Skeets would have whacked him in an earlier encounter?
7. There's a new Starman coming to the JSA who looks a bit like Thom Kallor from LSH v3(?) and a lot like the "Danny Blaine" Starman referenced in both Starman and DC1M. But who this guy is, is a mystery.
8. Superboy Prime has a role in the next big event.
9. The Monitors will soon encounter Nightwing, Ion, Donna Troy and at least two other heroes who "are supposed to be dead" as a result of IC.
10. One of the Monitors is dressed somewhat like COIE's Anti-Monitor.
11. Donna Troy is the new Harbinger, and may have been the Anti-Monitor's original Harbinger.
12. The former Earth-2 heroes in the JSA supposedly remember that they originated on Earth 2. Power Girl certainly knows it, and issue #1 of the new JSA book identifies her as a survivor of a Krypton from an laternate dimension or reality.
13. The Earth 2 we saw in IC had no people on it. But the Earth S (and other Earths? I don't recall) were populated ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
14. The new JLA book refers to a Flash finding another Earth in the future.
15. "Time Masters" ties in to 52.
16. Hawkman is coming back again ...
1. Look, let's just make it Earth-2 Superman.
2. Haven't we known about that sector for awhile? I feel like it's been referenced before.
3. I'm hoping/thinking that was probably just a cheap way of promoting 52. I can't imagine why these events would be called fifffdddeeetooo or whatever.
4. Oh, great. Animal Man and Adam Strange have to die. Two of my favorite second-stringers. Sweet.
5. More reasons to wish there'd never been a Booster Gold. Skeets is a villain now? A TINY LITTLE FLOATING ROBOT?
6. Yeah, cuz Skeets is real scary and badass.
7. Bring back Jack.
8. Don't be so down on this one, guys. Any major role means an opportunity for dying.
9. Well, that should be interesting.
10. Yeah, that's odd too. Maaaybe it's Soooooperboooooy Priiiime...SPOOOOOOKEEEEE.......
11. Hasn't it already been confirmed that she was the original Harbinger?
12. Again, Infinite Crisis already confirmed this. I think the implication of Infinite Crisis is that all the heroes now remember the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
13. Yeah, but wasn't most of that population just heroes and villains? Except Earth-Zero. Either way, I think that was just an error.
14. Alternate future. My fervent hope is that it doesn't come to pass. Please, no more multiverse.
15. Clearly.
16. Why can't we all just pretend Hawkman never happened. Good Christ, a more confusing character history, I've never encountered.
I don't think all of this really adds up to an event. Too scattered and unrelated. Most of this will be tied up in 52 and other titles that tie in with 52. A few might come to blossom into the next big event. We do know there is at least one more big event already planned. Obviously, there will always be big events, but Didio has referenced at least one, maybe two big events that are already in the planning stages.
