Convergence (comics)

Convergence
Cover of Convergence hardcover Art by Ethan Van Sciver.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Weekly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	April – May 2015
Number of issues	8, plus a 0 issue
Main character(s)	Batman Superman Wonder Woman Brainiac Telos
Creative team
Writer(s)	Jeff King
Artist(s)	Ethan Van Sciver Jason Paz Carlo Pagulayan

"Convergence" is a 2015 weekly comic book storyline published by DC Comics that ran from April 2015 to May 2015. Consisting of an eponymous #0 issue, an eight-issue core miniseries, and 40 two-issue tie-in miniseries, "Convergence" spins out of the final issues of the weekly series, Earth 2: World's End and The New 52: Futures End. The story involves Brainiac collecting cities and inhabitants from various timelines that have ended and trapping them in domes on a planet outside of time and space, to open them up to see what would happen. Notable during this event is the return of DC characters and past timelines from before the 2011 "Flashpoint" storyline that led to the creation of The New 52 DC Universe.

In April 2014, Dan Didio, co-publisher of DC Comics, announced that the weekly comic series that were currently being published (or soon to be published in the case of The New 52: Futures End and Earth 2: World's End), would be ending in the last week of March 2015, with Batman Eternal going on an unspecified hiatus.

On November 3, 2014, DC Comics announced the Convergence miniseries. The event would serve as a concluding event to The New 52: Futures End and Earth 2: World's End, and would involve characters from the pre-"Flashpoint" universe, including Brainiac, who had gained access to all of DC Comics' current and previous timelines and universes after torturing the location of Vanishing Point out of Booster Gold in Booster Gold: Future's End #1. Conceived as a weekly series in April and May 2015, Convergence would begin with a #0 issue and run for an additional eight issues. Additionally, DC Comics announced that during the storyline, all regular comics would be put on hiatus and replaced with 40 different two-part tie-in miniseries, featuring a variety of characters from throughout DC's entire publishing history.

Throughout November 2014, DC Comics began announcing each of these tie-ins in blocks of 10 in tandem with various websites. The list of titles includes a vast array of creators, many of whom have a previous association with the pre-New 52 versions of characters. Each comic will involve different DC characters under Brainiac's domes being forced to contend with the invasion of multiverse characters, such as those from pre-"Flashpoint", "Zero Hour",Tangent, and pre-"Crisis on Infinite Earths" timelines.