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An Anti-Crisis, Part I: It All Matters

In this new universe created by The Batman Who Laughs), Wonder Woman) and a deformed Swamp Thing) guard Themyscira which has been transformed into a twisted version of a prison hell, used to hold villains that refuse to defect to The Batman Who Laugh's new world order. After dropping off a new and mysterious prisoner that seems familiar to Diana, three new Batmen (Batmage), B-Rex), and Beyonder)) escort Diana and Swamp Thing to meet The Batman Who Laughs on a graveyard site, along with seemingly different versions of Harley Quinn), Aquaman), and a strapped up Mister Miracle), respectively accompanied by three others: Dr. Arkham), Bathomet) and Darkfather).

Mister Miracle and Darkfather confirm that Superman) has nearly succumbed to the Anti-Life Equation, to which The Batman Who Laughs follows up with the news that Earth 22 has fallen to Perpetua) and her forces. Batman) reaches Diana through a copy of Martian Manhunter)'s psychic link. Bruce reveals his plan to create a single world in which the little good that remains can exist in peace, without the interference of Perpetua's army.

Diana disagrees with his plan, believing they need to save everything somehow, they are soon interrupted by The Batman Who Laughs, who senses Diana is out of the moment. Soon after, Bruce uses the Black Lantern Ring to raise the dead, creating a zombie army to fight the army of evil Batmen that The Batman Who Laughs summoned, which include Batman versions of Plastic Man, Etrigan, Deathstroke, Clayface, and Scarecrow.

Bruce informs Diana that this is what he had meant by winning the little battles, but Diana still refuses to let go of the universe before Perpetua. Meanwhile, on the planet Ossex, Lobo) finds an undisclosed item that he has been implied to have been searching for, announcing it's his time to make a return. Searching for a way to return everything that the world has lost, Diana enters the prison where the mysterious prisoner is being kept, who is revealed to be Wally West). He informs Diana that there are two separate sets of energy: Positive connective energy (the Speed Force, the Emotional Spectrum, and the forces of justice), and Crisis energy (the Anti-Life Equation, Chaos Magic and the forces of doom) an equal and powerful counterpart.

Perpetua is apart of a race of powerful beings that are responsible for creating multiverses with positive energy and dying, giving their essence to their respective universe. However, when Perpetua created the prime multiverse, she used Crisis energy to do so, in an attempt to create an evil and chaotic multiverse. Once she was found out to have done this, her species decided to trap her in the Source Wall, hoping she may eventually grow to love the multiverse. However, all her years in the Source Wall had made her bitter and she would whisper to those with evil thoughts, hoping to bait them into freeing her. Eventually, this worked on Lex Luthor) and he nursed Perpetua back to health after the Source Wall was broken in the Justice League)'s fight with Barbatos), and she escaped.

Wally continues to reveal that Doctor Manhattan) had attempted to mend the fractures in the multiverse created by all the prior crises, but he failed. So instead, the Quintessence) gave the Justice League all of the positive energy in the multiverse, to fight off Perpetua who had all the crisis energy in the multiverse. The Justice League lost the fight, and Perpetua was given a direct conduit into the Dark Multiverse from the Batman Who Laughs, in exchange for the second-in-command position being taken away from Lex and given to him instead. Diana suggests that the remaining heroes create the first Anti-Crisis in order to have a fighting chance against Perpetua and bring back the multiverse, but the Batman Who Laughs overhears the conversation and interrupts.

The Batman Who Laughs reveals that he has his bat-army torturing Swamp Thing in the upper level of the dungeon, and tells Diana to continue playing her role in his plans for her friends not to be killed at his hands. In fact, the Batman who Laughs is keeping several heroes alive because with their memories, they keep the Dark Multiverse going, and with it a constant source of crisis energies for Perpetua. After further antagonization from the Batman Who Laughs, Diana decides to kill him with an Invisible Chainsaw. In the final panels, Batmage reveals to the Batman Who Laugh's Robins) that he has died. He tells them not to worry, and it's time to reveal the Batman Who Laugh's true plan, the "Final Bruce Wayne)", a Bruce Wayne that appears to have the Doctor Manhattan symbol on his forehead, much like Wally. A severed and possibly confused Sgt. Rock) is rambling about the toughness and brutality of war, while Batman comes to recruit Rock to his cause, picking him up for "one last fight".

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Wonder Woman/Diana of Themyscira (Earth 0)) **Supporting Characters:** * Batman/Bruce Wayne (Earth 0)) ** Dead Bats (Earth 0) ** Jonah Hex (Earth 0)) ** Sgt. Franklin Rock (Earth 0)) * Doctor Manhattan (Watchmen Universe)) * The Flash/Wally West (Earth 0)) * Harley Quinn (Earth 0)) ** George the Hyena (Earth 0)) * Justice League (Earth 0)) ** The Flash (Barry Allen)) ** Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)) ** Superman (Clark Kent)) Also as a hologram Infected by Anti-Life Equation & Omega Effect * Swamp Thing/Alec Holland (Earth 0)) **Antagonists:** * The Batman Who Laughs (Earth -22)) ** Dark Knights (Dark Multiverse)) Reforms *** Bathomet (Dark Multiverse)) *** Batmage (Dark Multiverse)) *** Batman/Clayface Mashup (Dark Multiverse) *** Batman/Etrigan Mashup (Dark Multiverse) *** Batman/Deathstroke Mashup (Dark Multiverse) *** Batman/Doctor Destiny Mashup (Dark Multiverse) *** Batman/Penguin Mashup (Dark Multiverse) *** Batman/Plastic Man Mashup (Dark Multiverse) *** Batman/Scarecrow Mashup (Dark Multiverse) *** Beyonder/Terry McGinnis (Dark Multiverse)) *** B-Rex/Bruce Wayne (Dark Multiverse)) *** Darkfather (Dark Multiverse)) *** The Dawnbreaker (Earth -22)) *** The Devastator (Earth -1)) *** Dr. Arkham (Dark Multiverse)) **** Vampire Bats (Dark Multiverse)) *** The Drowned (Earth -11)) *** The Merciless (Earth -12) *** The Murder Machine (Earth -44)) *** The Red Death (Earth -52)) ** "Final" Bruce Wayne (Dark Multiverse)) ** Groblins/Robins (Earth -22)) Groblins ** Joker Dragons (Dark Multiverse) * Perpetua) ** Alexander Luthor Jr. (Earth-Three)) ** The Anti-Monitor (Pre-Crisis)) *** Shadow Demons ** Brother Eye (Pre-Flashpoint)) *** OMAC (Pre-Flashpoint) ** Barbatos (Dark Multiverse)) ** Darkseid (Pre-Flashpoint)) *** Dan Turpin (Pre-Flashpoint)) ** Mandrakk the Dark Monitor/Dax Novu (Pre-Flashpoint) ** Parallax/)Hal Jordan (Pre-Flashpoint)) ** Superboy-Prime (Earth-Prime)) **Other Characters:** * Aquaman/Arthur Curry (Earth 0)) * Batman/Bruce Wayne (Earth 22)) * Captain Cold (Earth 0)) * Captain Marvel/Billy Batson (Earth 22)) * Eclipso (Post-Flashpoint)) * The Joker (Earth 0)) * Killer Croc (Earth 0)) * Lex Luthor (Earth 0)) * Lobo (Earth 0)) * Mister Freeze (Earth 0)) * Mister Miracle/Scott Free (Post-Flashpoint)) * Riddler (Earth 0)) * The Spectre/Jim Corrigan (Earth 22)) * Amazons of Themyscira (Earth 0) * Apex Predators * British Army (Earth -22) * Captain Atom (Earth 0)) * Dead Bats (Earth -22) * Demons ** Neron (Post-Flashpoint)) ** Neron (Earth -22)) * Martian Manhunter (Earth 0)) * Parliament of Trees * The Presence * The Quintessence (Earth 0)) * The Source ** The Hands * Thomas Wayne (Earth -22)) * Wonder Women of the Dark Multiverse * Zatara (Earth 0)) * Zatara (Earth -22)) * Zatanna (Earth 0)) * Zatanna (Earth -22)) **Locations:** * Greater Omniverse ** Dark Multiverse *** B-Rex's Earth **** United States of America ***** Gotham City ****** Batcave *** Earth -22 **** United States of America ***** Gotham City ****** Wayne Manor ** Hypertime *** Watchmen Universe ** Post-Flashpoint Multiverse *** Earth 0/Prime Earth/Metalverse Metalverse **** Earth ***** Arkham Wastelands ***** Gotham ****** Castle Bat) ****** Sgt. Rock's Bunker ***** The Hellscape ****** "Hell"/Themyscira ******* Tartarus Pits) ***** Megapokolips **** The Sun ***** New Apokolips **** Ossex *** Earth 22 **** Earth *** Promethean Galaxy **** Source Wall *** Speed Force ** Pre-Flashpoint Multiverse *** Antimatter Universe ** Perpetua's Multiverse ** The Void **Items:** * The Anti-Monitor's Armor * Batarangs * Bathomet's Trident * Batman's Crossbow * The Batman Who Laughs' Visor * Batsuits ** Utility Belt * Batman's T-Rex * Black Lantern Ring * Cloak of Erasure * Cosmic Tuning Fork * Eighth Metal ** Bracelets of Submission ** Chainsaw of Truth *** Lasso of Truth ** The Merciless' Helmet ** Trident of Neptune ** Trident of Poseidon * Green Lantern Ring * Superboy-Prime's Solar Armor * Wonder Woman's Tiara **Vehicles:** * Bone-Mobile * Batmobile * Black Fleet * Death Drive * Invisible Jet **Events:** * American War of Independence * The Crises ** Crisis on Infinite Earths ** Dark Multiverse Invasion ** Final Crisis ** Infinite Crisis ** Zero Hour **Concepts:** * Anti-Life Equation * Dark Matter) * The Green * Magic * Metahumans * The Seven Dark Forces of the Universe/Crisis Energy/Direct-Crisis Energy * The Seven Positive Forces of the Universe/Connective Energy/Anti-Crisis Energy ** Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum * Omega Effect

| Notes = * The story continues from both the epilogues of Justice League Vol 4 39 and Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen Vol 1 4. ** Dark Nights: Death Metal Infinite Hour Exxxtreme! Vol 1 1 reveals that this story takes place six months after the Dark Knights conquered and remade Earth– shown in "*The Fall of Earth*" from Dark Nights: Death Metal Guidebook Vol 1 1. * This issue briefly retells the history of the DC Multiverse from its Creation by Perpetua to the Seven Crises. ** The story reveals that The Eternal Return– the endless cycle of Crises and Rebirths– is the *curse* that Perpetua cast in order to gather enough Crisis Energy to free herself from the Source Wall. *** This will be repeated once again by John Stewart). *** The idea of the Crises happening because of an Higher Being was originally suggested to Batman by Molly the Keeper) in Justice League Vol 3 25. ** It will be then claimed that the Great Darkness– the supreme embodiment of *evil* in the Greater Omniverse– also influenced the minds of every major supervillain. * This story ultimately reveals that Doctor Manhattan became an Higher Being imbued with Anti-Crisis Energy as a consequence of the Intrinsic Field Chamber incident. ** Wonder Woman also reveals that, before leaving for his last journey into the Watchmen Universe, Manhattan tried to heal the damages to the timeline, but failed in his task. The Quintessence then collected the leftovers of his energy and gifted it to the League in the epilogue of Justice League Vol 4 39. * This story also renames the Seven Positive and Dark Forces as "*Connective Energy*" and "*Crisis Energy*." * There's a continuity error in this story, as in the flashback of the Justice League entering the Dark Multiverse to fight Perpetua, Hal Jordan was present instead of John Stewart. | Trivia = * Perpetua whispering to Barbatos' ears through her cage in the Source Wall was first referenced in Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen Vol 1 4. * The idea of Doctor Manhattan trying to fix the timeline was originally implied in the "*Flash Forward: Epilogue*" story from The Flash Vol 1 750, in which Wally West– previously imbued with Manhattan's residual energy from the Mobius Chair– decided to fullfill his predecessor's role as the "*fixer*" of the timeline. ** The Flash also became aware of the One Who Laughs' rise to power during the epilogue of the "*Generations Zero*" story from *Flash Forward collected edition)*. * Anti-Crisis and Crisis Energies are eventually revealed to be reflections of Alpha and Omega Effect– the *main* Cosmic Energies born from The Source. * The One Who Laughs refers to the Connective Energy as "*Anti-Crisis Energy*" **(AC)** and the Crisis Energy as "*Direct-Crisis Energy*" **(DC)**. These are obviously homages to the hard rock band, *AC/DC*. * The button that opens the Final Bruce Wayne's chamber is a homage to the Comedian's) Button from *Watchmen*. * Scott Snyder himself revealed on Twitter that Beyonder is an evil version of Terry McGinnis. | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Scott Snyder

Interior art: Greg Capullo

Color: FCO Plascencia

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