DC is re-writing all of its major events since the '80s with a stunning reveal in Justice League Incarnate #4

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If you've read any of the big DC Comics superhero events from 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths to now, everything you know is about to change.

In February 1's Justice League Incarnate #4, DC's de facto chief writer Joshua Williamson and co-writer Dennis Culver have re-contextualized the major events in DC multiversal history from the '80s to now. Although this Justice League Incarnate limited series has been a story unto itself, it continues to move pieces around on DC's 'big picture' chessboard towards another Crisis-level event in the very near future.

Anything more we could say on Justice League Incarnate #4 would be spoilers, so…

Spoiler warning for Justice League Incarnate #4 by Williamson and Culver, with artists Chris Burnham, Mike Norton, and Andrei Bressan.

A little-known DC villainous force known as 'The Great Darkness' has been re-contextualized to be the secret final boss for pretty much every major DC crossover event including (but not limited to) Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, Kingdom Come, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis, Flashpoint, 'The New 52,' The Multiversity, Dark Nights: Metal, Doomsday Clock, and Dark Nights: Death Metal.

So what about those other villains like the Anti-Monitor, Superboy-Prime, Extant, Doctor Manhattan, Barbatos, and more? They were all "avatars and puppets" (as DC calls them) of the Great Darkness.

Before the Big Bang or any religious texts, the universe started out of nothing - the Great Darkness is that nothing. 

The Great Darkness was created by Alan Moore and Stan Woch in 1986's The Saga of Swamp Thing #49 as an off-screen evil deity which human followers known as the Brujera worshipped. The Brujera were opening to bring the Great Darkness out of its