DC’s The Multiversity Solicited as a New 52 Title: Another Sign of a Coming Crisis?

With the just-released solicitations for DC Comics products shipping in August, it seems as though Grant Morrison’s long-delayed The Multiversity will be released not as a stand-alone miniseries or an Elseworlds/What If…?-style tale (as many had assumed) but rather as part of The New 52’s main publishing line.That’s based on solicitation text alone, wherein the series — which features alternate earths including ones analogous to the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths worlds of Earth-Four, Earth-S and Earth-C — appears in the section for The New 52 (rather than the “Beyond the New 52” section of the solicitations, where projects like Before Watchmen have been solicited).You can check out the solicitation text for the issue itself at the bottom of this story.What makes the revelation that The Multiversity will seemingly “count” more intriguing is the fact that there have been indications of late that the upcoming thirtieth anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths in 2015 (specifically in April of that year, just a month after all three of DC’s weekly titles conclude in March) might see a reimagining of that tale for the New 52. What form such a story would take — and whether it might restore some of the pre-New 52 status quo in instances where changes to the characters haven’t worked as well — is of course a question every reader would like an answer to, but as yet, there’s no hard confirmation it’s even happening.Well, mostly.The upcoming Earth 2: World’s End will likely deal with Darkseid, as he’s been a prime motivator of every story to happen on that parallel world since the launch of the New 52. Darkseid will also appear in Robin Rises, tying into a Batman and Robin story that is said to reverberate through the DC Universe. And, as readers of today’s Forever Evil #7 discovered, Darkseid is the target of a very dangerous threat.Who’s more dangerous than Darkseid? Well…