What's happening around the Multiverse now?
People, even superheroes, are all finding a way to start their lives once again after reality was reinvented for yet another time and things are bound to get even more complicated once that an old evil returns to change everything even further.
The continuation to Infinite Frontier #0 is finally here and thankfully this time is fully handled by the always competent Joshua Williamson who continues many of the plots he handled during such prologue and fortunately, they were the most interesting from that opening chapter.
The issue has a focus on the common people from the DCU which is surprisingly not something as common as you might think. We see how they react to the different changes to their reality and how they even wonder that there could be multiple versions of themselves or how even superheroes might be fabricating everything for their own convenience which is a pretty interesting topic and I hope is further explored in the future.
As it should have been obvious at this point, Williamson is a huge fan of Grant Morrison's work, particularly the Multiverse structure that allows to explore different compelling Earths along with the team that Morrison cemented during his Multiversity event, Justice Incarnate. I was initially surprised that Williamson paid as much respect to Morrison's titles considering I always thought Williamson had more in common with Geoff Johns in terms of writing but I should have seen this from the beginning, Williamson pays respect to continuity, period, and his books work the best because of it.
There are big examples of such passion for history like how the different Crisis and Earths are referenced including Barry Allen's role in all of this which is appropriate considering how much time Williamson spent developing the character during his Flash run (which, while solid as a whole, makes me think it might end-up being his weakest DC work because everything after it seems so much better now). Speaking of characters that Williamson worked on, Flashpoint Batman is also here and he's bound to be very prominent in upcoming stories along with Roy Harper who probably gets his more important role in years (and, in Williamson's style, his past lives as Speedy, Arsenal and even Red Arrow are brought back).
The plot revolves all-around the cliffhanger of issue 0 and, while nothing particularly original, it's still presented in an exciting manner that makes me wonder what's going to happen to the Multiverse now and hope the biggest evil of the DCU is going to alter it.
Xermanico handles the artwork and is all-around solid with a clean style and expressive characters, he even manage to emulate other styles at some points.
Yet another promising beginning. On board now.
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