You Won’t Believe What Obscure DC Character Caused the Big Bang

DC’s Black Label has mostly focused on characters that we know and love, like Batman (a lot of Batman), Superman, Wonder Woman, and others. However, fans have also got stories starring some of the lesser known DC characters. 2025 has seen the return of one of DC’s best obscure characters, with Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma starring the titular hero. The book was written by rising star Ram V, with art by Anand RK, with the six-issue series revealing the secret of Resurrection Man and his role in the story of the DC Mulitverse. Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #6 gives him the most important job in DC history, as it’s revealed that the Big Bang is his doing.

Resurrection Man‘s first series was a highlight of ’90s DC. Resurrection Man introduced readers to Mitch Shelly, a man who was able to come back to life every time he died thanks to something called Tektites, gaining a new superpower each time. DC has some amazing obscure heroes and villains, but Resurrection Man has long been a favorite of fans who love the most obscure parts of DC Comics. Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma has been quite a ride, giving readers a new take on the character that relates him to the Immortal Man and Vandal Savage, and also changes the history of the DC Universe yet again, with Resurrection Man taking an integral place in the superhero community that no one would have guessed.

Resurrection Man Is the Most Important Living Being

Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma told the story of Mitch Shelley as he’s hunted through time by Vandal Savage. In the old series, it was thought that Resurrection Man was given his powers when he was experimented on by “the Lab”, putting the Tektites into him to give him his powers. However, this book reveals that Shelley was the caveman who went with Vandal Savage to find the meteor that would make both of them immortal. This was the origin of the old Immortal Man and this book melds their origin together. The book also introduced a new villain into Shelley’s life, Sohie Kagawa, who would become a being of infinite appetite, devouring everything in order to keep alive for centuries. Shelley is also on the run from a mysterious stranger, and this takes him all over the world, including Ivy City, where he falls in love with a scientist working with the Atom. This scientist creates a micro universe, and Shelley steals it, believing that the man chasing him is trying to get this micro universe. Eventually, Shelley faces off against Savage, all the while realizing that he’s being chased by another version of himself, who wants him to fulfill a mysterious destiny. This leads to Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #6, when Mitch Shelley meets the Phantom Stranger at the end of time.

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The entire series has led to this moment, as Shelley is brought before Kagawa, who has been devouring everything in the universe as the living embodiment of entropy. Shelley is the last living thing (the Phantom Stranger doesn’t count as a living being, as he is a “stranger”), and meets up with Kagawa. He learns that Kagawa isn’t a malicious being, just someone trying to fill the hole in himself by devouring everything he can, but always remaining empty. Shelley feels pity for Kagawa, and throws himself into the abyss of his maw, preparing for non-existence after billions of years of life. However, he brings the micro universe with him, and it begins expanding, exploding outward in the Big Bang. In this moment, Shelley realizes that his life is part of a cycle of creation and destruction. His life is meant to bring about the end — Kagawa only gained his entropic powers because he wanted to devour Shelley and take his immortality, believing it would fill him up — and also to start the cycle all over again. Creation ends because of Mitch Shelley, but it always begins again because of Mitch Shelley.

Superman Didn’t Create the DC Multiverse, Resurrection Man Did

There’s an idea in DC Comics that Superman created the DC Multiverse. Now, this isn’t literal; Superman isn’t the actual creator. However, since Superman was the first DC hero, he is reason any of it exists, with something called “Superman energy” representing the power of hope that Superman brought to the DC Multiverse. It’s an interesting idea, one that has its origins in reality, and makes it fictional in the best possible way. However, Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma reveals that Superman isn’t the reason there’s a DC Multiverse. It was Mitch Shelley all along.

Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma is one of the most brilliant DC books of the last couple of decades. It is a touching story about life and the universe, the cycles we all find ourselves in. Ram V’s work is always much deeper than it seems, and this book is a perfect example of his skill, perfectly brought to life by Anand RK. It changes the way the history of the DC Universe works forever, and it’s something you need to see for yourself to see how truly beautiful it really is.

Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #6 is on sale now.

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