DC All In Special #1 (2024)

Fifty-two days after Amanda Waller's defeat, the re-formed Justice League complete work on their new Watchtower satellite. Whereas before they had tried to limit their number of members, they have decided to invite every super-hero on Earth to join the League. Superman goes to personally recruit Booster Gold, who has recently stopped his shameless self-promotion. Booster Gold is extremely honored and touched by the invitation, as he has recently been feeling out of place and has considered returning to the future. Superman hands him his new membership card and Booster recognizes the design from an exhibit in the museum where he worked, commemorating a moment where everyone came together, and realizes that he is living in that time now. Superman tells him that everyone is meeting at the Watchtower that night and that he will see him again there. The new expanded roster meets at the Watchtower, where Mister Terrific welcomes them to Justice League Unlimited. He tells them that they will always leave a blank membership card in the main hall, the one from Booster's museum, to represent that there is always room for more. Booster arrives late just as the speech is ending, and wonders quietly to himself why he still feels so lost when he thought he would be happy. Suddenly, violet lightning shoots through the room. Zatanna and Hal Jordan are possessed and Darkseid's voice comes from their mouths, saying that the Spectre will reveal the truth, and all the magical super-heroes start chanting "Darkseid is". Skeets tells Booster that there is no historical record of this happening. Omega Beams shoot out of the magical heroes' eyes, then a Boom Tube opens and Darkseid steps through; now wearing a black hooded cloak and with his hand replaced by an axe. Jordan says that if Darkseid has bonded with the Spectre, then he has become Death itself. The heroes charge Darkseid, who fights them off while seemingly having an argument with himself. Skeets detects a rift in reality and Mister Terrific says that Darkseid is out of sync with reality, like he is breaking in half. Darkness gathers around the blank card and Skeets tells Booster that the future has changed, meaning that they may not be able to go home. Darkseid begins building some kind of gateway and Zatanna tells the other heroes that, if he succeeds, he will become all-powerful. She tells them to keep him occupied while she and the other sorcerers prepare the spell to separate Darkseid and the Spectre. Wonder Woman binds him in the Lasso of Truth while Zatanna charges Superman up with magic to carry the spell. Zatanna flies at Superman and yells "Eerf mih!", splitting the Spectre off from Darkseid. Darkseid says "Thank you... Darkseid ends.", then disappears in an explosion, leaving a rip in time and space in the middle of the Watchtower. Superman says that they have their first mission. Later, the League call in Orion to consult him and ask him where Darkseid is. He says them that Darkseid is not on Apokolips and, as far as anyone can tell, is not in the Multiverse at all. Orion tells them that Darkseid represents a universal constant, so a Darkseid must always exist; if the current one is gone, then a new one will be created to take his place. He leaves for New Genesis to speak with Highfather. Batman and Mister Terrific examine the blank card, which has absorbed some of Darkseid's Anti-Life energies. They believe that it is now a gateway to "the Elseworld", one of the two poles of the Omniverse. When Earth 0 was cut off from the Multiverse the Elseworld, also known as the Alpha World, activated. Originally it was in a primordial state, but their readings of it now detect a finished world that is radiating the same energy as Darkseid. Wonder Woman says that they need to go there and investigate, but Terrific says that the world is still in flux and the flow of time is unnatural there. The only person who could go safely is somebody who has already travelled through time and is saturated with tachyons. Booster Gold volunteers and Terrific sets Skeets to automatically open a portal back to Earth 0 in 10 minutes so that they can return home. They jump through the portal and the League immediately loses contact with them. Booster emerges from the rift without Skeets, not on the Elseworld but in the far future, and sees that it is now a second Apokolips with red skies, fire pits and Darkseid's Omega symbol everywhere. He is attacked by Darkseid and a corrupted Legion of Super-Heroes.