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word of advice : SPOILERS forJustice League # 35
DC Comics hasa long history of " Elseworlds " storiesimagining what their case would be like in other universes , and of the coolest of them all imagined a edition ofGotham by Gaslight , introduce a Victorian - era Batman fighting Jack the Ripper ; but now he , and his whole world , have been erased from world . InJustice League#35 the team ’s young archenemy , Perpetua , wiped it out , ending , in her words,“Trillions of life in a single blink of an eye . "
So who is Perpetua , and how can she be so powerful ? Introduced as part ofthe epicYear of the VillainstorylineSnyder and Tynion are currently writing , she was one of the Super Celestials , make by the Source of all existence to make new type of biography . Perpetua had her own plans , though , and want to make a form of eternal life : " vertex predators " she could utilise as a weapon system against her skipper . Her creation became the 52 worlds of the DC Multiverse , and the children created to implement her will : DC picture like Mar Novu the Overmonitor , and Mobius theAnti - Monitor .
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Unfortunately , in the events of Snyder and Greg Capullo’sDark Nights : Metal , the Source Wall containing Perpetua cracked , allowing the entireness moderate all her power to appear on earth . With some help fromLex Luthor and his Legion of Doom , Perpetua break free . Now she ’s ready to make over the multiverse in her own image , and she starts by destroying the Gaslight universe for the crime of choosing justice over her own , more nihilistic ideal of doom .
The world ofGotham by Gaslightwill be drop . The original story , written by Brian Augustyn , with art byHellboycreator Mike Mignola , and P. Craig Russell , was the first of DC’sElseworldsseries of graphical novels , popularizing the conception before the name had even been coined . As well as moving Batman a hundred - odd twelvemonth into the past , it also gave him the chance to meet with real diachronic figures : he ’s psychoanalyze by Sigmund Freud and chases Jack the Ripper when he seek to set up shop class in Gotham , who in the universe had been a Civil War field sawbones alongside Bruce Wayne ’s Father-God , Thomas .
Augustyn wrote a subsequence , Master of the Future , with art by Eduardo Barretto , where Batman fought the nominal tune sea rover and encounter Buffalo Bill Cody . Various DC characters made it over to this universe of discourse , most latterly in theConvergence : Shazam!miniseries by Jeff Parker , Evan " Doc " Shaner , and Jordie Bellaire . In this serial publication , Superman ’s foreign enemy enamor metropolis from across the multiverse and forces them to combat each other for their own survival . Shazam ’s Fawcett City confront off with the Victorian - era Gotham , give Shaner a luck to show off this universe ’s interpretation of the Greco-Roman Batman rogues ' gallery .
Gotham by Gaslighteven received an animated adjustment , with a cast includingDoctor Sleep ’s Bruce Greenwood as Batman andDexter ’s Jennifer Carpenter as Catwoman who , along with many other Greco-Roman Batman characters , were added to the cast of the original comic . Now that this universe of discourse has been destroy , there ’s no telling where Perpetua could go next . Any public might be under threat – evenDC ’s Prime Universeitself .
Justice League#35is available now at your local comics shop .
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