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The New 52: Futures End: Five Years Later Omnibus

by Dan Jurgens

Other authors: ACO (Illustrator), Oclair Albert (Illustrator), Pascal Alixe (Illustrator), Marc Andreyko (Contributor), Matt Banning (Illustrator)92 more, Frank J. Barbiere (Contributor), Eddy Barrows (Illustrator), Tony Bedard (Contributor), Brett Booth (Illustrator), Geraldo Borges (Illustrator), Brian Buccellato (Contributor), Rodney Buchemi (Illustrator), Cullen Bunn (Contributor), J. Calafiore (Illustrator), Ben Caldwell (Illustrator), Keith Champagne (Illustrator), Sean Chen (Illustrator), Vicente Cifuentes (Illustrator), Yildiray Cinar (Illustrator), Martin Coccolo (Illustrator), André Coelho (Illustrator), Amanda Conner (Contributor), Will Conrad (Illustrator), Marc Deering (Illustrator), J. M. DeMatteis (Contributor), Tom Derenick (Illustrator), Dan DiDio (Contributor), Jed Dougherty (Illustrator), Ray Fawkes (Contributor), Raul Fernandez (Illustrator), Eber Ferreira (Illustrator), Julio Ferreira (Illustrator), Juan Ferreyra (Illustrator), Fabrizio Fiorentino (Illustrator), Sholly Fisch (Contributor), Ron Frenz (Illustrator), Derek Fridolfs (Illustrator), Javier Garron (Illustrator), Keith Giffen (Contributor), Justin Gray (Contributor), Andres Guinaldo (Illustrator), Scott Hampton (Illustrator), Scott Hanna (Illustrator), Chad Hardin (Illustrator), Scott Hepburn (Illustrator), Jack Herbert (Illustrator), Mark Irwin (Illustrator), Van Jensen (Contributor), Justin Jordan (Contributor), Ruy José (Illustrator), Tom King (Contributor), Scott Kolins (Illustrator), Jeff Lemire (Contributor), Paul Levitz (Contributor), Steve Lightle (Illustrator), Igor Lima (Illustrator), Scott Lobdell (Contributor), Aaron Lopresti (Illustrator), Emanuela Lupacchino (Illustrator), Alvaro Martinez (Illustrator), Christy Marx (Contributor), Jose Marzan Jr. (Illustrator), Jason Masters (Illustrator), Ray McCarthy (Illustrator), Stephen Mooney (Illustrator), Rags Morales (Illustrator), Moritat (Illustrator), Diogenes Neves (Illustrator), Tom Nguyen (Illustrator), Pat Olliffe (Illustrator), Greg Pak (Contributor), Jimmy Palmiotti (Contributor), Eduardo Pansica (Illustrator), Jason Paz (Illustrator), Will Pfeifer (Contributor), Francis Portela (Illustrator), Norm Rapmund (Illustrator), Ivan Reis (Illustrator), Cliff Richards (Illustrator), Robson Rocha (Illustrator), Sean Ryan (Contributor), Jesus Saiz (Illustrator), Bart Sears (Illustrator), Tim Seeley (Contributor), Gail Simone (Contributor), Andy Smith (Illustrator), Scott Snyder (Contributor), Andrea Sorrentino (Illustrator), Charles Soule (Contributor), Philip Tan (Illustrator), Stephen Thompson (Illustrator), Robert Venditti (Contributor), Lee Weeks (Illustrator), Len Wein (Contributor), Daniel H. Wilson (Contributor), Phil Winslade (Illustrator), Walden Wong (Illustrator)

Series: The New 52: Futures End (companion), The New 52 Omnibus (4)

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In September 2014, as every title in the DC Universe published special new issues featuring their favorite heroes and villains in iterations they've never seen before- future versions of themselves! Every DC Comics comic book series will feature a special issue, revealing the shocking fates of top super heroes including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern and many more. Written and illustrated by top talent including Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN, THE FLASH, JUSTICE LEAGUE), Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS, JOKER), Scott Snyder (DETECTIVE COMICS, AMERICAN VAMPIRE), Jeff Lemire (JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED) and many more! Just in time for the new year, these entry-point issues are collected in a single, massive hardcover edition that will be a great holiday gift for comics fans everywhere.… (more)
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Five years before the "present," the New 52 version of the DC Universe came to life in Zero Year; now, five years after, it comes to an end. The Five Years Later Omnibus presents endpoints for the 52-ish comic books of the New 52. The future in which these stories take place is somewhat obscure: the back cover actually gives the history of a world thirty-five years later, and talks about Batman Beyond, who appears in literally zero of the issues collected here. The blurb ends by saying "Learn how all this and more could come to pass," but the book is actually very poor at filling in backstory; it took me around half the book to piece together that the Prime Earth had been overrun by refugees from Earth-2, and that Darkseid's forces had invaded at some point. I'm not sure if more things happened to create the dark timeline we see, though. Plus, some of the stories aren't consistent with one another: Justice League Dark: Futures End #1 claims that Etrigan is trapped in the House of Mystery outside time and space, but Etrigan also appears in Gotham City in Batwoman: Futures End #1, where he is killed.

Unlike the previous New 52 omnibi, this one isn't subdivided, so I'll just be reviewing the stories en masse, first with some comments on the overall set-up and then hitting up some specific stories. Of the three New 52 omnibi I've read, I found this one the most frustrating. Even though none of the stories in the first omnibus came to an end, they were all designed for new readers; most of the stories in the Villains Omnibus were easily grasped one-shots. But despite being set five years into the future, most of the stories here seemed really embedded in the continuity of the ongoings they span out of-- so too bad for me if I haven't been keeping up with Aquaman and the Others. I pick on it here because it was one of the first stories in the book, and it's filled with characters I knew nothing about, depicting alterations to a status quo I'd never seen before. Unfortunately a lot of the early stories in the book are like this: Flash, Green Arrow, Infinity Man and the Forever People, Star Spangled War Stories were also virtually impossible for me to understand.

The best stories, I found, drew on nothing more than the basic premises of their characters, meaning that I could be oriented without much effort. For example, the Phantom Stranger tale didn't really depend on me knowing anything particular to the New 52 version of the Phantom Stranger-- it worked as a standalone final Phantom Stranger story, as the Stranger (who you may know better as Judas Iscariot) is called up for judgement a second time, but the jury is made up of the worst demons Hell has to offer. I enjoyed its spooky, weird, mythical tone, even though the last Phantom Stranger stories I read were from his Action Comics Weekly feature back in the 1980s.

The other final ends for familiar characters that I enjoyed were Catwoman (Catwoman pulls off the biggest heist imaginable, all within Batman's rules) and Harley Quinn (Harley runs into the Joker on a desert island). I think what made all three of these stories work is that they actually had basically nothing to do with the big picture of the Futures End timeline; they were just stories of these characters from five years on. The more the stories in this book were embedded in the details of the future continuity, the less I tended to like them. (I didn't even get what was going on between Batman and the absent Superman in Batman/Superman, for example.)

One story, however, stood head and shoulders above the rest: Grayson: Futures End #1. It's a really clever reverse chronology story, starting with Dick Grayson's execution at the hand of the Russians, and moving back through his life, so you see how Spyral came to ally itself with Russia to fight Apokolips, how Dick became close to fellow spy Helena Bertinelli, how Dick and Batman defeated the Cluemaster, even going all the way back to how Dick's parents were killed in what looked like an accident. Like the best reverse chronology tales, it rewards rereading, but it's not just a puzzle box-- it's also moving, managing to be both triumphant and sad all at once. You're sad to see Dick Grayson pushed into such circumstances, but he always manages to handle himself with the essential morality and optimism that define Dick Grayson. An amazingly well done story that completely stands on its own, and has me looking forward to reading Grayson in full some day.

I have to say, this experiment with the New 52 omnibi was... not great. I guess it should have been obvious. Who likes all of anything? Who even likes the majority of anything? If DC is publishing 52 comic books, we would normally expect maybe five of them to be enjoyable to me. Yet here I am reading the other 45 books on top of that. They're cool from a collector's standpoint, I suppose, but their very nature as uncurated collections of everything whether it's good or not means it's never possible for them to present an enjoyable reading experience. I've gotten a snapshot of the post-Flashpoint DC universe at three different points in its history, but that's about all I've gotten.

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In September 2014, as every title in the DC Universe published special new issues featuring their favorite heroes and villains in iterations they've never seen before- future versions of themselves! Every DC Comics comic book series will feature a special issue, revealing the shocking fates of top super heroes including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern and many more. Written and illustrated by top talent including Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN, THE FLASH, JUSTICE LEAGUE), Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS, JOKER), Scott Snyder (DETECTIVE COMICS, AMERICAN VAMPIRE), Jeff Lemire (JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED) and many more! Just in time for the new year, these entry-point issues are collected in a single, massive hardcover edition that will be a great holiday gift for comics fans everywhere.

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