Dceased: War of the Undead Gods

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Darkest Hour: Issue #5, appropriately titled "Hope Lost," ends with Superman succumbing to the infection. In some cases the infected do in fact eat their prey, such as an infected Clayface trying to pull people into his mouth to eat them and some Gotham citizen trying to fight off the zombies with his shotgun, only to get over-whelmed and then eaten alive off-panel. Shout-Out: Every issue of the series (including the additional one-shot A Good Day to Die) has a variant cover that pays homage to the poster for a well-known horror film:

A routinely strong performer, the first issue was released in May 2019, and was ranked #1 in the comic book sales for that period. [1] Issue two also sold strongly, coming in at #2 for the month of June at 152,407 units. [2] Sales dipped slightly for issue three, coming in at #3 in July at 132,072 units, [3] with a further decrease in August for issue four (down to roughly 120,000 units). [4] Expanded material [ edit ] Spin-offs [ edit ] Played straight when the first child sees Grundy and understandably mistakes him for an infected undead. The undead Wonder Woman did this to The Creeper, Solomon Grundy, and Deathstroke. She particularly bashed herself into Deathstroke so he won't be able to regenerate. This made Damian’s sacrifice hit even harder. Damian wearing the pure white Batman costume that Jon gifted him was a great way to symbolize how far he has come and the sacrifice he was going to make. Jon and Alfred both being there to make sure Damian knew he was not alone in his final moments was a touching scene. It made the ending as satisfying as it can be in this long journey with the DCeased franchise. FINAL THOUGHTS DCeased was a surprise hit for DC Comics. As a result of this, a number of supplemental series were published to expand the comic’s world. These tell side stories and explore what other characters are up to in-between issues of the core series.DCeased: Hope at World's End (2020): A Digital First series focusing on heroes like Stephanie Brown, Wally West, Martian Manhunter, Jimmy Olsen and more as the world ends.

Bittersweet Ending: Sol/Sector 2814 is completely lost when the infected Superman absorbs the entire Sun, dooming those left on Earth, but .002% of humanity (around 140 thousand) are saved with Guy Gardner and the other Green Lanterns leading them to "Earth 2" with hopes to rebuild their world.

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Interquel: The series is primarily set during the Time Skip from Issue #5 of the original series and helps to explain what happened to characters not spotlighted there.

In the third issue, the infected Joker is shot and killed by Harley Quinn. The Birds of Prey, Aquaman, Tempest, Clayface, Perry White, and the senior Jonathan Kent are all shown to have become infected.

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Surprisingly Happy Ending: While DCeased was always more upbeat and positive than other zombie stories, Dead Planet is the only one that ends on an unambiguous victory for the good guys. The heroes manage to cure everyone who was infected, even including Jonathan Kent sr., the AMAZO army is defeated, and so is Trigon. Earth is ready for resettlement. While a lot of heroes paid for it with their lives, this is definitely a happy ending. Magic Is a Monster Magnet: It is discovered that Pied Piper’s flute actually attracts the Anti-Living rather than repels them. Facial Horror: One of the defining characteristics of the infected. Once the Anti-Life Equation enters someone's mind, the victim will desperately claw at their own heads to try to get it out before fully succumbing. As such, all of the infected have their heads scarred with deep, bloody claw marks. Things go From Bad to Worse in the fifth issue with the deaths of Martian Manhunter, Lex Luthor, The Flash, and Superman.

The infected Superman enters the sun to destroy it and Earth with it, not to restore the sun and save Earth; plus, the Unstoppable-Force Immovable-Object quote. Man Hug: Much to Gordon's surprise, Damian has no problem embracing him out of happiness towards his survival. In A Good Day to Die, Big Barda, Mister Miracle, Booster Gold, and Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) are forced to fight their old teammates Fire and Ice, both of whom have become infected.I had been waiting around to read this comic for months now but wanted to binge it and omg its so worth it, like it doesn't disappoint one bit, right from the get go showing how cosmic the threat is of the unliving Darkseid more like Deadseid and then infecting the new gods and how they are spreading death across the universe and how the heroes and GLC have to band together to save it, and what they do to Warworld, Korugar and other planets is just insane but makes for great cliff hangers if you were following it in single issues. Face Death with Dignity: When Hawkman is taken, and he hears the growls of the Anti-Life near him, he simply makes a stoic face showing no fear as he soon becomes one of them. Heroic Suicide: When he becomes infected, Superman tries to fly deep into space and kill himself with oxygen deprivation before he fully succumbs. He fails.