The events of Day of Vengeance were foreshadowed, when the Beetle confronted the wizard Shazam, but no particular hints about that title were made. The main plot was essentially an extended prologue to The OMAC Project. After Beetle refuses to join Lord, Lord executes him with a fatal gunshot to the head.Ĭountdown was bannered as a bridge to all four of the Crisis leadup titles, but featured each of them unevenly. There, he confronts Maxwell Lord, who is revealed to be using his Justice League files and Batman's satellite, the Brother MK I, to keep an eye on the superhero community, which he considers a threat to the human race. Art by Phil Jimenez.Īlone and unaided, Blue Beetle continues to follow the clues to Switzerland where he infiltrates the castle base of the Checkmate organization.
Artist Ed Benes pencilled and inked his chapter. The script was co-written by Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka, and Judd Winick, while the art chores were divided up, generally on a chapter by chapter basis, between the penciller-inker teams of Rags Morales & Michael Bair, Jesus Saiz & Jimmy Palmiotti, Ivan Reis & Marc Campos, and Phil Jimenez & Andy Lanning. During initial solicitations the comic was entitled DC Countdown to postpone revelation of an upcoming crisis.Ĭountdown was a special 80 page comic originally priced at $1, much lower than would normally be the case for an 80-page comic, although the second printing was priced at $2. For the second printing, the shadows were removed to reveal the identity of the corpse. When this comic was first published, the cover showed Batman holding a shadowed corpse, so as not to ruin the surprise of who dies. It was released 30 March 2005, sold out, and quickly went to a second printing. DC Countdown, commonly referred to as Countdown to Infinite Crisis, is a one-shot publication and the official start of the " Infinite Crisis" storyline.
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