DC Comics could never do something like Tom Taylor’s DCeased in mainstream continuity, but what if they could? That kept nagging at me as I read Taylor and Trevor Hairsine’s DCeased: War of the Undead Gods, the last(?) chapter in the DCeased saga.
The conflict here is so heightened, the twists so unexpected, that clearly War is a better “event book” than Dark Crisis or Lazarus Planet or Knight Terrors. So why can’t DC rise to this level for their line-wide crossovers, the time it surely matters most? I imagine it’s the need to put the toys back in the box, to not sully the IP or have Batman Bruce Wayne be dead for most of the series — and whether we’d even believe it if he was — not to mention the five-year time jump. But surely all of that is solvable, a day-saving trip back through time or some other reality-bending deus ex machina.
