The World of 1990s DC Comics Returns in An Official Alternate Universe
Spoiler warning for Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1
The 1990s are officially back in fashion at DC Comics thanks to an alternate universe featured in the new Young Justice Dark Crisis tie-in. The first issue of Dark Crisis: Young Justice sees some of the main characters whisked away to a kind of alternate world or dimension where everything has been reverted to the 90s status quo. The fan-favorite Young Justice team debuted in the late 1990s, and this series plays with nostalgia for that particular era of DC Comics characters.
Young Justice has been reunited after the death of the Justice League and the ensuing events of Dark Crisis. The original Young Justice series ran from 1998-2003, and the core legacy characters from that series—Robin, Superboy, Impulse, and Wonder Girl—continued on to feature in Teen Titans (2003). Those four characters, in addition to the retired Arrowette, star in Dark Crisis: Young Justice, and their complicated history is on full display. After the events of Infinite Frontier restored once-erased elements of the larger DC Universe, these young legacy characters are being forced to reckon with their problems, both old and new.
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The first issue of Dark Crisis: Young Justice by Meghan Fitzmartin, Laura Braga, and Luis Guerrero opens at the Justice League's memorial as Wonder Girl contemplates Young Justice's oft-forgotten legacy in the wake of DC's recent crop of legacy characters in Dark Crisis. After the memorial, Robin, Superboy, and Impulse are transported to an alternate world where everything is as it was in the 90s. Tim Drake wakes to Alfred—currently dead in main continuity—at Wayne Manor. Superboy finds himself in Hawaii
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