Clearly Williamson is setting up something monumental. This invokes a well-known Legion of Super-Heroes story named “The Great Darkness Saga”. We see him gathering his Apokoliptian underlings, as well as some of DC’s most powerfull evil entities to prepare for something he calls “The Great Darkness”. And I suspect that Pariah has something similar in mind here.Īlso, Darkseid seems to have some nefarious plans of his own. During that event, Hal was intent on destroying the world so that he could rebuild a perfect world. To me Pariah sounds an awful lot like Hal Jordan did in Zero Hour. Infinite Frontier #6 ends on Pariah’s final words, which seem to carry a chilling undertone: “We’ll all be happy. Is Barry trapped in an illusory world or has Pariah created an actual parallel universe just for Barry? In either case, I suspect that this existence is meant to keep Barry from interfering in whatever he has planned.ĭespite his hopeful words, I suspect that Pariah is up to something that does not bode well for the future of the DC Omniverse. This implies that this situation is set up to provide a wish-fulfillment scenario for Barry. I find it quite significant that Barry’s mother is still alive on this world. There is also an elderly woman present, but it’s not Joan Garrick, as Barry addresses her as “Mom”. Wally is present as a teenager in his Kid Flash costume and Wallace as a small child. Iris is present, as are Don and Dawn Allen (the Tornado Twins) as children. We see Barry eating dinner with his family. It appears to be a world designed to be a paradise for Barry. The art seems to show Barry dying at Pariah’s touch, but instead of being dead, Barry is transported to somewhere called “Earth-Flash.1”. Pariah explains that Barry has travelled to Multiverse-2, which consists of all the worlds the Anti-Monitor destroyed in the original Crisis.īut amidst the rubble of a destroyed Multiverse, Pariah offers a hopeful message to Barry.
Barry finds himself on the ruins of a destroyed Earth.
The epilogue starts with the caption “…And the Multiverse will never be the same…”. This epilogue reveals some interesting concepts for the state of the DC Omniverse. And we get a glimpse of what lays ahead for Barry in the epilogue. However, I trusted that Williamson had something more interesting in store for the character he wrote for more than a hundred issues. I had some fear that Barry might be killed in this series, as he was in Crisis. It appears that he will be playing a greater role in the follow-up story next year. And now Pariah briefly appears in the story’s epilogue. Even Harbinger and Lady Quark make appearances.
In particular, both series share a lot of central characters: The Flash (Barry Allen), Psycho-Pirate. This series has frequently evoked the original Crisis on Infinite Earths in a number of ways.
Infinite Frontier #6 concludes Joshua Williamson’s event series with a bang. Plus, Barry Allen is put on a path he may never get off! Our heroes knew that someone had been pulling the strings this entire time, but are they prepared for it to be the biggest bad of all? As President Superman, Alan Scott, Roy Harper, and the rest converge for a showdown, the secret of Omega Planet is revealed. Infinite Frontier #6: One story ends and the next phase of the DC Multiverse begins.