Darkseid War continues in JUSTICE LEAGUE #42. Last issue, the League had a brutal introduction to Grail, Darkseid’s daughter. If that wasn’t bad enough, they soon come face to face with the Anti-Monitor as well. While there is a bit that happens in this issue, there is one pretty big event that we have to immediately discuss. That means there will be some spoilers below for JUSITCE LEAGUE #42.
The League barely had a chance to recover from their encounter with Grail and who knows what facing the Anti-Monitor would mean. Luckily Metron arrives and transports them to a place of safety—a place hidden from Grail and Anit-Monitor. None of the League, except for Hal, knows who Metron is. Metron informs them there is no way they can save their world this time. Wonder Woman cuts to the chase and demands to know how they can stop Anti-Monitor. When Diana tries using her Lasso of Truth on him, Hal tells her that Metron doesn’t have any answers but his chair does. Removing him from the Mobius Chair results in the chair about to leave. Batman jumps on in order to stop it. That’s when the change occurs.
Batman is almost overwhelmed with the fact that he can now hear the answers to everything. He first asks the chair who killed his parents. Being informed that it was Joe Chill starts to convince him it does know all the answers. He then asks another question—an interesting one.
With the sound of a “Ping,” Batman gets the answer to his question. We don’t hear what the answer is but what’s in a name? Batman’s reaction to the answer is pretty fascinating.
What could that mean? This is something we may never find out but you can’t deny the idea of Joker’s true name actually meaning something is pretty crazy.
What this means for Batman is what we saw mentioned in the DIVERGENCE Free Comic Book Day Issue. A New God is born. We can assume this is not something that will last past this story arc. But how do you un-become a god?
Make sure you read JUSTICE LEAGUE #42 to see the other stuff that happened, especially with Mister Miracle. We'll have to wait for issue #43 for more.