The Justice League is alive ... sort of
The Justice League is dead… or are they? The official line from DC and Dark Crisis writer Joshua Williamson is that there is no Justice League, but certain characters in the DC Universe – mainly Nightwing – aren't so convinced. And in a new interview with Newsarama, Williamson reveals that the Justice League are technically dead, but their essences live on thanks to Pariah's under-construction multiverse.
Worlds Without a Justice League #1-5 comprise a series of one-shots that take place on alternate worlds where the dead Justice League members are being held hostage in what Williamson describes as "happiness prisons." Each hero has a different experience on their particular world, but one thing remains true for them all: Their essence is the core of their world, which means they'll be trapped forever – or at least as long as Pariah wants to keep them in his clutches.
Williamson began laying the groundwork for Worlds Without a Justice League in Infinite Frontier #6, wherein Barry Allen meets Pariah and is consequently killed. Pariah uses Barry's essence to create a Silver Age-like world, and during Dark Crisis, Wally West will take the entire Flash family to attempt to rescue Barry. According to Williamson, all members of the dead Justice League now have their own worlds – but escape or rescue won't be so easy.
"[Pariah is] warned that Justice League Incarnate is going to bring back heroes from Earth-0 to fight him, and he says that's what he wants. He basically Crisis'ed out the Justice League, so he killed them but then he takes their essences to build all these new worlds. That's what all these one-shots are," Williamson explains.
"You have Superman's world, Batman's world, Wonder Woman's, Green Lantern's, and so on
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