DC's upcoming Convergence event will see the entire publishing line put on hold for two months, replaced by 40 two-part mini-series that feature different characters from across the multiverse as they fight to survive Brainiac's experiment. Each week of mini-series will have a different theme. As with Week 3, Week 4's theme focuses on the DC Universe as it existed prior to and leading up to Crisis on Infinite Earths, when the original DC multiverse was still in existence.

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Whereas Week 3 will center on Earth-1's various heroes, these ten books from Week 4 will explore various other worlds in the multiverse, along with more recent alternate realities like DC One Million and Superman: Red Son. We turned to the writers and artist crafting these various projects to find out more about what Convergence holds in store for DC's pre-Crisis heroes.If you haven't already, check out our interviews for the other three weeks of Convergence tie-ins:

Week 1 - DC's Writers and Artists Tease Pre-New 52 Stories

Week 2 - DC's Writers and Artists Talk Going Back to Zero Hour

Week 3 - DC's Writers and Artists on Returning to Crisis on Infinite Earths

Finally, be sure to let us know what you think of these projects and which Convergence tie-ins you'll be buying in the comments below.

Update: we've added commentary from writer Frank Tieri about both Convergence: Justice League and Convergence: Suicide Squad below.

Convergence: Justice League & Convergence: Suicide Squad writer Frank Tieri

Convergence: Booster Gold writer Dan Jurgens and artist Alvaro Martinez

Convergence: Action Comics writer Justin Gray and artist Claude St. Aubin

Convergence: Crime Syndicate artist Phil WInslade

Convergence: Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters writer Simon Oliver and artist John McCrea

Convergence: World's Finest Comics writer Paul Levitz

Convergence: Infinity Inc. writer Ben Caldwell and artist Jerry Ordway

Convergence: Justice Society of America writer Dan Abnett and artist Tom Derenick

Look, everybody knows I’ve been mainly a Marvel guy in my career -- and as far as my DC work goes, it’s mostly been Bat-centric. So now here with Convergence, I get to play in areas I don’t normally get to play in. I get to play with an all-female JLA, a Suicide Squad that’s both old and new, a nutso Flashpoint Aquaman and characters from one of my favorite events of all time, Kingdom Come.In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I had a blast.With Suicide Squad, their mission involves Green Lantern’s floating space station, New Oa. Kingdom Come’s heroes are using it as a base of operations—plus, it’s positioned right above their city so it’s impossible to attack them without being detected. Bottom line is, it has to go… and that’s where Suicide Squad comes in. They have to take out GL and to do so Amanda Waller assembles whatever bad-asses she can get her hands on. So joining SS regulars like Deadshot, Boomerang, Vertigo, Poison Ivy and Bronze Tiger we’ll have a virtual villains all-star line-up with Bane, Black Manta, Star Sapphire and Cyborg Superman.AND a mystery final member who only gets revealed at the end of issue #1. And trust me, kids… it’s a DOOZY.In Justice League, we find that the JL gals have been trapped in their Gotham when the dome came down. So it’s that city they’ll be defending when an ultra-creepy, stalkery Flashpoint Aquaman attacks—which gets even more complicated when he targets Mera. And when they discover it’s not just Aquaman they’ll be fighting.Make of that what you will.Justice League at its heart is a love story. A twisted love story, granted, but a love story nonetheless. In many ways it’s Flashpoint Aquaman’s story and the fact that he’s totally batshit crazy. That really comes into play when you see the measures he’ll take to get back Mera—ANY Mera, in this case, alternate realities be damned. There’s no question he’s the villain in our story so if you’re one of those people who thinks Aquaman’s a wimp, you might want to tune it and find out how wrong you’ve always been.Then again, he of course didn’t count on the all-girl power JLA so he may very well end up getting his Aqua ass kicked after all. You’ll just have to tune in and find out.Suicide Squad on the other hand is more of a mystery. More crime noir-ish. From the very start of the book, we see that the mission has failed. That they’ve been betrayed from within. Now it’s just a matter for the reader to figure out who that betrayer was. Of course, when you have the collection of villains and scumbags that we’ve assembled—it could be ANYBODY. ESPECIALLY that mystery member I mentioned earlier—and I’ll leave it at that.Great fun. I actually started at DC a couple years prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths so it was fun to get in touch with all that again.Kind of like visiting old friends.When last we saw Booster Gold, he had given up the location of Vanishing Point, which is a time monitoring station that exists outside time and space. All that happened in the Booster Gold: Futures End issue.We pick up on those developments and take off from there.I haven't had the chance to see the whole picture yet but my guessing is that it fits into the very core of the story, some of the characters involved seem to have an understanding of what's truly going on and also the new 52 version of a character will be introduced. The identity will shock the fans and l think will have special relevance in the development of Convergence..at this point, that'a all l know!Booster Gold! Superboy! The Legion of Super Heroes! And a special guest star that everyone wants to see in a Booster story!I don't think we need more than that!They'll get to see a lot of places and characters they haven't seen in a long time. Also, all the questions they may have from Booster Gold: Futures End will be answered. Oh, and a very very long awaited reunion will take place!A great deal of fun. I've had experience writing Power Girl, but this E2 era PG is part of a brighter and happier DCU, especially when writing E2Superman prior to the Crisis. There's a joy to it that was really great to connect to.I had a great time drawing all the wonderful characters in Action Comics. I remember reading Crisis when it first came out. The story arc was extremely well woven and easy to follow, a fun readI also have the good fortune of working with the Red Son characters introduced by Mark Millar and Dave Johnson. I know it isn't the "selling point of the story" but writing Lex Luthor arguing with Stalin was almost as fun as the over the top action sequences between two of DC's strongest female characters.Take it for what it is, this is meant to be a big loud blast of a comic that pits Paul Levitz's Power Girl against Mark Millar's Red Son. There are a lot of easter eggs in the story that I do not want to spoil.What can I say? Superman, Power Girl fighting Red Son Wonder Woman! That is a real high light to work on such high profile and icon characters. I could not ask for better! A real treat for readers.Exciting and challenging. It's great that these characters are included in the event as they are such intriguing and complex individual characters. It's nice to see this more modern and realistic idea in characters of such age. They're like a barely remembered gem ripe for a polish.The interesting part of Crime Syndicate's involvement is their motivation. The Crime Syndicate were what less idealistic people might become when blessed with super-powers. They are not natural heroes and have real trouble trying to work out what the right thing to do is and how to do it. The fact that each character is conflicted is both modern and refreshing and very relevant in the stories I like to tell.I'm really excited about the combination of the best of classic and modern comics.The twist of seeing the familiar with fresh eyes and an all too short glimpse full of action and pace, of DC's uncharted and secret history.It was really a pretty great experience. Not being much of a superhero kind of guy and never having worked in the DCU before I was a little intimidated going in, but once in I really let loose to tell the kind of character-driven story I want to tell.Great fun to work of this DC era, I read Crisis as a kid and it was one of those big event comics that really stuck with me, probably as it was one of the first and best. Amazing George Perez art and all that!Well there's things I can tell you and of course there are things I can't, because if I do they made it clear they knew where I lived, but take my word for it, the whole thing is pretty crazy. My story is Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters, sealed in New York City under a mysterious dome getting to square off against another dome that contains the Future's End robot superheroes... oh and there are Nazis and the Silver Ghost.It's set during the timeline when the Nazi's won WWII and all that stands between them and total world domination is Plastic Man and his ragtag band of Freedom Fighters.What's not to get excited about, Jon McCrea on art, so it looks amazing, and it's a fast paced, take-no-prisoners Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters story, complete with Robot Superheroes, I was excited to write it and had a blast working on it, oh and did I mention it has Nazis and the Silver Ghost as well?I love Plastic Man and this book manages to fit a lot of things in that I get excited about when I start a comic- robots, Nazis, sexy ladies, humour, action, pathos and stretchy guys- lets face it, this one's got it all!Kinda like going home again...kept flashing back to the meetings at the time up at Tarrytown House, or in the conference room at 666 that had Superman's fist breaking into the room. Some good memories, some regrets, but nice to be back for a minute.Obviously it's only a small piece of the puzzle, but hopefully a colorful one.Well, it's the first appearance in about 5 decades of the oldest piece of the DC universe--Scribbly Jibbet was actually first published before his first DC appearance, and well before Superman. Shelly Mayer's work on the character is acknowledged by Art Spiegelman as the first cartoonist's memoir. Check it out!AWESOME. I was a kid back then, so it was great fun revisiting all the 4-color fun (and relentless graffiti) of my youth! Also, the infinitors (yes that's a real thing, no i didn't make it up, and yes it DOES make them sound like ass-kicking gladiators from the future) are a great group -- a family, really -- so i enjoyed bringing that dynamic to life on the page. My only regret is that Jade didn't kick more goons in the groin.Well, working in and around that era of Crisis was exciting for me, as I was part of a new wave of creators brought into DC beginning in 1980, when the company had fallen behind the competition. DC was the first to offer royalty incentives on comic book sales, as well as character equity if a creation was licensed for other media. I had been part of All Star Squadron from the start, and had launched Infinity Inc with Roy Thomas and Mike Machlan, as part of DC's plan to forego the traditional newsstand distribution, and sell directly to comic stores. In a later issue of Infinity Inc, we included a teaser segment to help set up Crisis a year or so before that book launched! And then, midway through Crisis, I joined Marv and George as finisher on the comic. So you might say, my DNA is connected strongly to that time-frame, and the introduction of scores of new character creations as a result of forward thinking DC policies.Infinity Inc. is almost certainly the lynchpin to the entire convergence event. Probably. Better buy multiple copies of it, just in case I'm not lying!Also, it has Japanese fire dragons battling giant superheroes in a post-apocalyptic alternate dimension. if you can't get excited about that, then YOU HAVE NO SOUL.The Infinity Inc. series ties into Convergence in the same way as the other books do-- the characters have all been trapped in a quarantine of sorts, and are desperate to do whatever it takes to return to some sort of normalcy. What was gratifying to me, was to show them in a somewhat real way-- as young people forced to grapple with their place in the world. They were a new team, with a few successes under their belts, formed as a reaction to being rejected by their parents and guardians in the Justice Society of America. They live in the shadows of more famous and revered parents. The parallel is to look at a music group made up of the kids of the Beatles-- would they be content to just make music, and ignore the critics who say they'll never be as good as their parents? Would that tear them apart, or steel their resolve? So it's fun to address that dynamic, against the threat of the main storyline.I thought i just did.But ok, just in case: Jonah Hex and his army of time-displaced mercenaries (including a sentient, flying battle-manta) wreak havoc as a group of extremely photogenic heroes go multiverse-hopping and SENTIENT, FLYING BATTLE MANTA. I want to make sure that part isn't getting undersold.What I already stated above. These characters still have a strong following, as evidenced by turning up reimagined and otherwise all over the DCU in the years since their comic ended. Most fans know that after the events of the Crisis, they lost their Earth 2, along with some important links to DC's origins. Knowing that result, I think, will make this story more emotionally charged, in showing the Infinitors facing the menace, and understanding their place in the world. They're the "b" team in so many ways, yet they are charged with saving their world, against adversaries from a dark, future world where heroes are scarce, and killing is an everyday thing.I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s a really nostalgic and elegiac tone to this JSA story. It was very involving to write, and I hoped that comes across. Fans of JSA, I think, will enjoy engaging with these heroes at such a significant moment.It was cool, I wasn't in the industry during the time period so it was a lot of fun to get to work on this version of the JSA.The heroes are caught under the Dome, and it seems to be the end of the road for them. It’s made them very aware that they are the old guard. This is a thoughtful story, a reflection on heroic careers, but there’s big action too.It's JSA verses the Qwardians. And the JSA figuring out whether they still have a place in this world. Dan really delves into what makes these characters heroes and it's not the costumes alone. It was very interesting and fun to draw.Tom Derenick’s artwork for one thing. It’s amazing. Both the quiet stuff and the huge action that then breaks out. This is a real celebration of the JSA, and a celebration of being a super-hero. The exhilaration, the responsibility, the sacrifice…Do you miss the JSA? Well we're bringing them to you full tilt. Thought-provoking and big action as well.

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