Countdown to Final Crisis Comics

Countdown to Final Crisis Comics - Countdown to Final Crisis, previously titled simply Countdown published by DC Comics, which debuted in May 2007 directly following the conclusion of the last issue of 52. The series is written primarily by Paul Dini, who will also act as editor, with a rotating team of writers and artists. Countdown consists of 52 issues published weekly for one year, crossing over with noteworthy and significant titles published by DC. The series is numbered in reverse order, starting with #51. The series covers much of the fictional DC Univers and is told in parallel narratives, through the interconnecting stories of a cast of characters, and frequently crosses over with various other DC titles. Unlike 52 the previous year, Countdown is not depicted as taking place in "real time". The series follows the success of the previous year's 52-issue weekly "real-time" series, 52, which in contrast did not cross over with DC's other regular titles. 52 concluded with the revelation that the Multiverse (a storytelling device which posits the existence of alternate realities) exists, and which now serves as a backdrop to several stories in Countdown. In issue #26, the series was renamed to Countdown to Final Crisis, in the vein of the previous Countdown to Infinite Crisis issue, albeit larger. The stories taking place in Countdown are expected to set the stage for the approaching "Final Crisis" series which like its predecessors,Infinite Crisis and Crisis on Infinite Earths is intended to be a major story in the history of the publisher which may possibly restructure the DC Universe in which its stories are set.