If you've🅷 read any of the big DC Comics superhero events from 1985's to now, ever🍷ything you know is about to change.

In February 1's , DC's de facto chief writer Joshua Williamson and co-writer Dennis Culver have re-contextualized the major events in DC multiversal history from the '80s to now. Although this Justice League Incarnate limited series has been a story unto itselꦬf, it continues to move pieces around on DC's 'big picture' chessboard towards another Crisis-level ev♐ent in the very near future.

Anything more we could say o☂n Justice League Incarnate #4 would be 🐠spoilers, so…

Spoiler warning for Justice League Incarnate #4 by Williamson and Culver, with artists Chris Burnham, Mike Norton, and Andrei Bressan.

A little-known DC villainous force known as 'The Great Darkness' has been re-contextualized to be the secret final boss for pretty much every major DC crossover event including (but not limiteꦉd to) , , , , , , 'The New 52,' , , , and .

So what about those other villains like the Ant🔯i-Monitor, Superboy-Prime, Extant, Doctor Manhattan, Barbatos, and more? They were all "avatars and puppets" (as DC calls them) of the Great Darkness.

Who is the Great Darkness?

Before the Big Bang or any religious texts, the universe started out of nothing - the Great Darkness is that nothing. 

The Great Darkness was created by Alan Moore and Stan Woch in 1986's as an off-screen evil deity which human followers known as the Brujera worshipped. The Brujera were opening to bring the Great Darkness out of its slumber and retake the unive𓆏rse. 

All that remains true with February 1's Justice League Incarnate #4, but it was the tip of a ve﷽ry dark, very thorny iceberg which we didn't know the full shape of until now.

The name 'Great Darkness' was used years before in connection with Darkseid in the epic Legion of Super-Heroes storyline 'The Great Darkness Saga,' but Justice League Incarnate connects it all together into one cohesive force/being that is intent on returning the universe - and the DC multiverse AN♛D the DC Omniverse - back to nothing, where the Great Darkness was everything.

DC's Crisis history, revisited

In a stunning 10-page sequence of Justice League Incarnate #4 narrated by Doctor Multiverse (and dꦦrawn by Chris Burnham), the Great Darkness's unseen hand in DC superhero events for the past 30+ years was revealed as part of a larger, unified story connecting all those events in one continuity.

Without giving play-by-play for the entire story, the villains of pretty much every major DC crossover event (and even alt-reality events like Kingdom Come) are r🌜evealed to have been working for the Great Darkness. The lone exception to this is Final Crisis, as that event's big bad Darkseid was working to oppose the Great Darkness - but didn't reveal it at the time. His gambit to kill everything in the universe has been re-contextualized by Justice League Incarnate's writers to be a trap intended to lure the Great Darkness out of hidi🐓ng and make him vulnerable to being controlled by Darkseid.

Spoilers for Final Crisis, but Darks🦩eid was killed by Batman before he could kill everything or draw out the Great Darkness.

It's even revealed that the secondary villain the Empty Hand from The Multiversity event actually began as a piece of the Great Darkness - the literal "right hand" that shook hands with the Light in a peace treaty orchestrated by Swamp Thing. The fingers of this hand became horns and beౠcame a seemingly independent being subservient to the Great Darkness. 

Darkseid was resurrected in 2021's Infinite Frontier #0, and after merging with all the other variants of himself in the DC Omniverse, set out to control the Gre🐼at Darkness again. In Justice League Incarnate #4, his battle took him to amass his armies against the Empty Hand and his Gentry... but he too ultimately failed and gave the Great Darkness even mo🌠re power.

The Great Darkness awakening a new Crisis

So after years of being the secret final boss of DC's Crisis-level events since 1985, it seems like the G🍰reat Darkness - and a struggle against𓄧 him - will be a Crisis of its own in the upcoming months.

This seems to all be building towards (and through) April's Justice League #75 and the planned 'Death of the Justice League' story where some of DC's top heroes are fated to die at the hands of a shadowy new s⭕upergroup of villains called the Dark Army. 

Dark Army… the Great Darkne🍸ss… al🌱l sounds connected, doesn't it?

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