DC Comics has announced their next major event will be titled Convergence and will launch on a weekly schedule starting on April 1, 2015. It will be written by Jeff King -- a veteran TV writer most popularly known for his work on Stargate SG-1, White Collar and Continuum -- with art by Carlo Pagulayan and Stephen Segovia.

According to a USA Today interview with DC Comics Co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, the story will feature a plot by the villain Brainiac, who has decided to conduct a great experiment by taking all of the cities he has bottled from various timelines and planets to a planet outside of time and space and then open them all up to see what happens when all of the inhabitants meet. A new villain named Telos -- Greek for "end" or "goal" -- will also play a part.Most interestingly, when USA Today asked about characters and events from the pre-New 52 universe, Lee said, "What we're really addressing is they all exist and have existed and exist within the framework of the New 52. Convergence is in many ways the most meta epic event we've done." This not only appears to confirm that the pre-New 52 universe does in fact still exist as part of DC's multiverse of parallel realities, but that we may very well see lost characters like Donna Troy, Cassandra Cain, and Superman in his red underwear again.Two different comics -- The New 52: Futures End and Earth 2: World's End -- will act as lead-ins to Convergence, which will be a nine-part event. This includes a #0 issue co-written by King and Dan Jurgens (who is part of The New 52: Futures End writing team), and then the core #1-8 series, which will be written by King with plotting by Scott Lobdell (who recently ended his run on Superman).In addition to the main Convergence event story, there will be 40 two-part miniseries launched to coincide with the event. DC's regular monthly comics will go on hiatus during this time.Believe it or not, this will be the first time King has ever done a comic book. "Because this involved so much deep lore and fiction from DC Comics, it was great to have someone come in with a fresh set of eyes to look at it and make sure that it's as open and accessible to all fans," DiDio told USA Today. "Not just the people who have been reading DC throughout the years."It's also worth pointing out that Marvel Comics recently announced they are doing a new Secret Wars event in 2015 that also features characters from different realities coming together as part of an epic conflict.Stay tuned to IGN for more details on Convergence.

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