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DCeased: War of the Undead Gods (2022) #8

[horsechestnut]

Since Dceased never confirmed otherwise I’m choosing to believe that Talia managed to find the Lazarus Pit and Steph is totally fine, because the idea that Steph and Cass are the only two bats to survive the apocalypses is so incredibly funny.  

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Tom Taylor to Deceased Alfred Pennyworth: “Alright, here’s your ending. Everyone important to you is dead.”

Cassandra Cain & Leslie Thompkins: “Hey, we’re still alive!”

Tom Taylor: “Everyone important.”

[towritecomicsonherarms]

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #3

[takaraphoenix]

So DCeased ended, huh.

And I’m... it wasn’t the worst ending, but I’m also not happy with it?

After that amazing twist with Alfred becoming the Spectre, specifically to save Damian’s life, to save his last son (still kinda pissed that Cass is... just... not acknowledged at all as a Bat Fam member I mean she is alive?? She barely appeared at all in this run? And doesn’t seem to matter to Alfred and Damian at all?).

Alfred did this great thing to save Damian... just so Damian could now sacrifice himself for the universe. Wow. How satisfying. /s

And it was somehow made more infuriating by how dumb everyone around him seemed? Cassie not realizing that this was a sacrifice play. I’m sorry, but if someone says they have “a weapon” and “can’t tell you what it is” but leave you, their romantic interest, behind on purpose... then the weapon is them, it’s a sacrifice play, they’re not coming back. You don’t need to be Wonder Woman to figure that out, but also Wonder Woman should definitely be able to see through that.

It absolutely infuriated me how dumb this made Cassie look, on top of sidelining her. Not giving Wonder Woman anything to do in this final battle against EREBUS, the ancient GREEK deity of darkness. Really? You really did that? You made the Big Bad a Greek god and then you benched Wonder Woman?

But hey! Ares got to go and play! And the Black Racer! And... so many more guys. It was a real... sausage party up there. Oh, yeah, and Dinah, I guess. Wow. One woman, huh.

No, seriously, benching Wonder Woman here? And not letting Cass as Shazam do anything anymore? Making Cass Shazam had been such a cool move but then she kind of... never really... appeared anymore, aside from in the background? And I gotta repeat where I couldn’t hold my tongue earlier, because seriously. They made Alfred mourning Bruce, Jason, Dick and Tim such a big deal. And yeah, it should be. Absolutely. But... how do the women not matter at all? So Steph and Babs aren’t ‘family’, so their deaths don’t have that much impact (it would still be nice if they would have been mourned too, to any degree), but Cass is family and Cass is still alive and Cass is not included in anything. There are no moments between her and Alfred, between her and Damian. What the fuck.

The way Damian mentions that Cass is training the new Kryptonians just... reminded me that Cass exists - or rather, showed me that the writers remember that Cass exists - and that makes it somehow worse, I don’t know.

Speaking of the new Kryptonians, another underused female character really was Kara though. The way this series opened up around Kara, I... falsely assumed her to be a central figure and play a... bigger part... But... uh... she... really didn’t... I mean really didn’t. Even the reunion with Clark was kind of a throwaway moment that faded away and then she was gone, because untrained new Kryptonian.

But the severe underusage of its badass female characters aside, the sacrifice play.

I don’t believe that it was necessary. There’s no way, no way, that they couldn’t have found a better solution for it. That they couldn’t have delivered it on the damn USB drive that it was on, or whatever. Heck. Put it on a mouse and sacrificed the mouse, sorry, PETA.

But Damian had this whole arc over this series, and Alfred did this great thing to save him, and now we’re just back to “yeah I do everything on my own, and now I gotta die to save the universe, all on my own, without even trying to figure out a better solution with my team”, when one of the great things about this series was when there were all these great and different characters working together.

Also I honestly wish they had not included the part with Damian’s birthday and him turning eighteen. For one, it made the sacrifice much... sadder. He was just a kid, still. I had genuinely assumed that much more time had passed in-universe and that Damian was 20+ at this point. And the other part, it would have made the Damian/Cassie less weird if they had not gone out of their way to announce that, because she’s... Tim’s age, so five-ish years older than him. So it seemed like a bit of a choice to emphasize that.

On the overall? Man, that finale was a... letdown. Which sucks, because I really had enjoyed it so far. This had so much potential. It was great. I hate when something is amazing, but then... just doesn’t stick the landing, because a mediocre or bad ending can sour the whole story and this... did that.

So now Alfred haunts space, mourning his sons. The ending doesn’t fit the journey, in my opinion. It was always a journey of hope, Clark and Pam and Jason and Jon and Alfred everyone always projected hope to... get a new start. And, obviously there were losses, there had to be, but the literal final shot of this was Alfred, all alone, staring into a vast universe created by Damian’s death, thinking about his dead sons, thinking about the past. Not the hope, not the future. We don’t even return to Earth in this finale, we don’t even see them start to rebuild, we don’t see hope’s seedling, we don’t see a joyful future that Damian brings, we only the sadness. And that stands in contrast to this message of trying to find hope that the story kept telling throughout.

Hope? Hope would have been Victor Stone, who has the intellect of Brainiac and the knowledge of Apokolips, actually figuring out a better solution, instead of being robbed of his agency by a self-sacrificial teenager who got to explode into a new universe because they couldn’t think of implanting this into a mouse or something. It would have been seeing them all return to Earth, rebuild. Seeing what Harley and Pam have been rebuilding down there already, and those from Earth-2 finding their place back home. Seeing Alfred and Leslie, happy, with Damian (and Cass...). That’s what everyone has worked toward for this entire journey.

[bigbadbruin343]

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #7 preview.

Writer: Tom Taylor

Artist: Trevor Hairsine and Lucas Meyer

Inks: Andy Lanning and Lucas Meyer

Colors: Rain Beredo

Letters: Saida Tenofonte

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Preview: DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #4 (of 8)

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #4 preview. Nothing is what the heroes of Earth thought it was. The shocking truth is finally revealed and the fate of all of existence hangs in the balance #comics #comicbooks

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DCEASED WAR OF THE UNDEAD GODS no.6 (of 8) • cover art • Jeff Spokes [Feb 2023]

The galactic war has reached Earth-2 and the battle to save the last bastion of hope! With an unstoppable army of infected New Gods, Yellow Lanterns, and more…does humanity have any hope of survival?

(W) Tom Taylor (A) Trevor Hairsine, Andy Lanning (CA) Jeff Spokes

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DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #3 Preview

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #3 Preview #dceased #waroftheundeadgods #batman #zombies #DC #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #news #DCEU #dcuuniverse #art #info #NCBD #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #dceased

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #3 Preview:   THE BLOCKBUSTER FINAL ARC IN THE SERIES CONTINUES! As a warrior princess is mourned on Themyscira, an old god comes to warn of the threat of the New Gods. Meanwhile across the stars, Adam Strange fights the unthinkable and the Main Man himself, Lobo, tears his way into DCeased. New battle lines are drawn as the anti-living spread across the…

[camo-wolf]

"Clark came out to find Jon standing on the roof again looking up at the constellation"

"It's the 3rd time this week"

Clark-Jon you should get some rest

Jon-but he will be alone and I told him i won't let him be

Clark-... Jon he's gone

Jon-but he's right there shining so bright

[thebatbaes]

[ Damian Wayne as Batman in DCeased: War of the Undead Gods (2022) #8 ]

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DCeased: War of the Undead Gods (2022) #8

[theofficialdailyplanet]

together in the beginning, together in the end

[embracedbythesea]

"We are made of stardust"

[towritecomicsonherarms]

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #8

[takaraphoenix]

New favorite DC image just dropped. [From the pages of DCeased: War of the Undead Gods, issue 4]

Superman punching a Guardian is so satisfying. Not once have I encountered these arrogant smurfs and liked them. They think themselves so important and make so many shitty calls in the comics. They had a punching coming for a long time <3

(Also look at fangirl Guy Gardner! Adorable! <3)