Justice League Dark 2021 Annual Vol 2 1

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"A Glimmer of Childlike Hope"
Justice League Dark 2021 Annual Vol 2 #1
January, 2022
Rated T for Teen (12+)
Executive Editor	Marie Javins
Cover Artists	Sebastian Fiumara
Variant Cover Artists
Cover Variant #1	Paul Renaud
A Glimmer of Childlike Hope
Writers	Ram V Dan Watters
Pencilers	Christopher Mitten
Inkers	Christopher Mitten
Colorists	Romulo Fajardo, Jr.
Letterers	Rob Leigh
Editors	Jillian Grant Brittany Holzherr Mike Cotton

There is a darkness coming to this universe, a great and terrible thing that must be stopped.

— Yuga Khan

Justice League Dark 2021 Annual (Volume 2) #1 is an issue of the series Justice League Dark 2021 Annual (Volume 2) with a cover date of January, 2022. It was published on November 30, 2021.

Appearing in "A Glimmer of Childlike Hope"

Featured Characters:

• Justice League Dark
  • Detective Chimp
  • Doctor Fate (Khalid Nassour)
  • Jason Blood (Flashback only) (Also as a spirit) (Resurrected in flashback)
    • Etrigan the Demon
  • John Constantine
  • Zatanna Zatara
• Wonder Woman (Diana of Themyscira) (Flashback and main story)

Supporting Characters:

• The Eternal Knight (Elnara Roshtu)
• Hauhet (First appearance) (Flashback and main story)
• Mister E (Flashback and main story) (Also in a vision)
• Randhir Singh (Flashback and main story) (Also as an illusion)

Antagonists:

• The Great Darkness (Behind the scenes)
• Merlin (Alternate Timeline) (Brainwashed) (In a vision) (Cameo)
  • The Sapphire Knight/Arion (Alternate Timeline) (Real identity revealed) (In a vision) (Cameo)
• Typhon (Flashback only) (See Notes)
• Yuga Khan (Post-Flashpoint) (As a spirit) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an illusion)
  • Merlin (Brainwashed) (Flashback and main story)
    • The Brothers of Ambrosius (Flashback only) (Cameo)

Other Characters:

• Angels (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Damned souls (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Demons (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Guardians of the Temple of Hauhet (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Also as corpses) (Flashback only)
• Promethean Giants (Only as corpses) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Adolf Hitler (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Batman (Bruce Wayne) (Mentioned only)
• Darkseid (Post-Flashpoint) (Mentioned only)
• Gaia (Mentioned only)
• Giants (Mentioned only)
• Pantheons of Gods (Post-Flashpoint) (Mentioned only)
  • Gods of Egypt (Mentioned only)
    • Geb (Mentioned only)
    • Nut (Mentioned only)
    • Osiris (Mentioned only)
    • Set (See Notes) (Mentioned only)
  • Gods of Rome (Mentioned only)
  • Gods of Olympus (Mentioned only)
    • Hera (Mentioned only)
    • Zeus (Mentioned only)
• Lords of Order (Mentioned only)
  • Nabu (Mentioned only)
• Prometheus the Titan (Mentioned only)
• Mephistopheles (Mentioned only)
• Tartarus (Mentioned only)
• Tim Hunter (Mentioned only)
• The Upside-Down Man (Dark Multiverse) (Mentioned only)
• Faust (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Omniverse/"Eternity" (Flashback only)
  • Hypertime
    • Alternate Earth 0 Timeline (Merlin destroys the Tower of Fate) (Unnamed) (Erased)
      • 2021
        • United States of America
          • Salem
            • Tower of Fate (In a vision) (Destroyed)
    • Timestream (Flashback only)
      • 2020
      • End of Time (Cameo)
  • Infinite Frontier
    • Post-Flashpoint Multiverse (Unnamed)
      • Astral Plane (Flashback only)
      • Collective Unconscious
        • Merlin's Mindscape (Flashback only)
        • Randhir Singh's Mindscape (Flashback only) (Cameo)
      • Earth 0
        • 2021
          • Atlantis (Flashback only) (Cameo)
          • United States of America
            • New Mexico
              • Cradle Farm (Flashback only) (Cameo)
            • Washington, D.C.
              • Hall of Justice
                • Dark Quarters
      • Promethean Galaxy (Flashback only)
        • Source Wall (In ruins)
      • Sphere of the Gods
        • The Dreaming (Flashback only) (Behind the scenes)
        • Heaven (Flashback only) (Cameo)
        • Hell (Flashback only) (Cameo)
        • Underworld
          • The Temple of Hauhet (First appearance) (Flashback only)
        • Apokolips (Mentioned only)
    • Dark Multiverse (Mentioned only)
  • The Void (Flashback and main story)

Items:

• Alchemist's Stone (Flashback only)
• Alcohol
• Bracelets of Submission (Flashback and main story)
• Constantine's Lighter (Cameo)
• Helmet of Fate
• Lasso of Truth (Flashback only)
• Mister E's Stick (Flashback and main story)
• Nepenthe (First appearance) (Flashback and main story)
• Ouija board (Mentioned only)
• Silk Cut
• Wonder Woman's Tiara (Flashback and main story)

Events:

• Gigantomachy (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)

Concepts:

• Alternate Timelines
• Magic
  • Divination
• Metahumans
• Time Travel
  

Notes

• The story continues from Justice League (Volume 4) #70 and is concluded in Justice League (Volume 4) #71.
• The events of this issue occur, at most, an hour after the epilogue of the Justice League Dark's story from Justice League (Volume 4) #70.
  • Diana's flashback takes place between her meeting with Doctor Fate from Wonder Woman #780 and her cameo in Justice League #70.
  • Mr. E's flashback takes place not long after the rebirth of Creation in Dark Nights: Death Metal #7, as the Source Wall is still in ruins and there's no boundary between the Infinite Frontier and the Greater Omniverse.
    • However, by 2024, both the Promethean Galaxy and the Source Wall had reformed themselves.
• The mythical beast from Diana's flashback is actually the King of Giants, Typhon. According to Hauhet, "Typhon" was also used as an alias by the Egyptian god Set, who is, however, an entirely separate being.
• This issue was originally supposed to come out in 2022 but was swapped with Justice League 2022 Annual (Volume 4) #1.
• This issue is reprinted in Justice League Dark: The Great Wickedness.

Trivia

• Yuga Khan's words from E's flashback heralds the return of The Great Darkness in Justice League Incarnate #5 and the events of Dark Crisis.
• Mr. E and John Constantine recall the events of The Books of Magic #4, in which E tried to murder Tim Hunter at the End of Time.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Justice League Dark 2021 Annual series
• Images from Justice League Dark 2021 Annual Vol 2 1

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