DC Comics and Generations: Shattered #1 Spoilers and Review.
The Villain Revealed, But…
…How Does This Into Death Metal Finale, DC Future State and Infinite Frontier?
We open in the future era during the Great Disaster.
No longer on an alternate Earth it seems, but from a future that is being eaten up by what appears to Entropy as seen in Zero Hour back in the day.
The boy hero Kamandi (circa 1972-78 comics) is also being attacked by animal people, but…
…is saved by an older Booster Gold whose AI Skeets is now a gauntlet instead of a self propelled flying robot.
However, Booster Gold takes an arrow to the heart by the animal people and transfers Skeets to Kamandi to carry on his mission.
The Entropy attacking the timeline gets the attention of time-manipulating heroes and villains alike…
…as Waverider, from the aforementioned Zero Hour event (circa 1994 comics), seems to save the elder Booster Gold?!
A villain emerges, the initiator of the Entropy it seems, and he sees the Infinite Frontier created at the end of Dark Nights: Death Metal, but…
…sees the timeline not the multiverse as rife for his manipulation.
Kamandi takes on the elder Booster Gold’s mission to assemble a team to deal with this time threat and starts in…
…the 31st Century era of the classic Legion of Super-Heroes (circa 1976 comics) which is devoured by the Entropy, but…
…Kamandi plucked Superboy onto his team instead of Brainiac 5 which he was supposed to!
Then from 1993, around the death and return of Superman, Steel is drafted.
Then the 1987 Doctor Light is recruited.
From what appears to be 1986, Kamandi recruits the OG Booster Gold.
From 1983, just before the Judas Contract, we see Starfire drafted.
During an indeterminate time, we see the Green Lantern Sinestro recruited; so we know this pre Hal Jordan becoming Green Lantern (pre his 1959 comics debut).
They we go full circle to Detective Comics #1927 when the 1939 Batman was recruited.
The mission is explained as time fractures, and we see Infinite Frontier, Future State and other timelines in there…
…as the team is attacked by an all-new Linear Men…
…who scatters our motley crew, seemingly through time, where the Justice Society of America (JSA) assist the OG Batman…
…as more time fractures emerge and…
…the villain Dominus is revealed to be behind the Entropy… or something.
We then see a few pages of…
…timelines merging into one another…
…as things get really loopy.
Our motley crew is scattered through time as a result of Dominus attack…
…they are dying timelines!
The book ends with Dominus leaving his Linear Men…
…join his family in a scene that has me thinking Watchmen / Doomsday Clock’s Doctor Manhattan for some reason.
The Pulse:
A confusing issue, almost as convoluted and jargony as Death Metal. Some art teams were good while many others were not my taste. Not clear how this fits into anything or bridges Dark Nights: Death Metal finale to DC Future State to Infinite Frontier. 4 out of 10.
