Convergence Leaves "Every Door Open" When It's Over, Says DiDio

In a new interview with Newsarama, DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio seemed to assure fans that their favorite defunct worlds from the DC multiverse won't just be obliterated in Convergence.

Asked whether the inclusion of pre-Flashpoint characters in the upcoming, two-month mega-event constituted an opportunity to end their stories or a new beginning that opens the door to more stories with them, DiDio said...both.

Here's his (lengthy) answer:

It's a little bit of all of that. When we launched the New 52, it was a rather harsh ending to the current universe. We did the Flashpoint story, which led us into the New 52, but you never got that sense of closure, like you did with other events.

When you look at things like Crisis on Infinite Earths and Zero Hour, the characters that changed, you saw the character change occur and it sort of brought closure to certain books and characters and stories.

We never did that with the pre-Flashpoint DC Universe. And there are a lot of interesting character beats and stories that we felt were still worth revisiting. So we're telling those stories, but we're also presenting characters in a way that I felt would intrigue fans.

These aren't just leftover stories from pre-Flashpoint. These stories are as if we're joining their lives, later down the line, to see what happened to them.

And then, more importantly, how it fits into the grander scope of things.

And ultimately, you know, we're leaving every door open everywhere. We want to see what the reaction is, where the excitement is… because our goal is to reach as many people as possible. So the more people who get excited about ideas, the more that we'll go back and see whether or not there's this viable option on how to really capture whatever interest they're showing in those characters.

There's been a lot of fan speculation that the series, which comes thirty years after DC eradicated its multiverse with Crisis on Infinite Earths, could restore the original, unlimited multiverse for the first time since the '80s, complete with new worlds that have been created since for stories like Kingdom Come and even The New 52. What DiDio says doesn't explicitly support that theory...but it certainly seems like a plausible read of what he had to say.

Convergence launches April 1.