(The continuity might be confusing to those not paying attention, but the first World’s Finest storyline features Dick Grayson as Robin, as well as the original Doom Patrol and is set in the past, sometime during the early period of Superman and Batman’s careers.) Of course, this might be down to the fact that the Lazarus Demon was actually introduced before the Devil Nezha, despite the fact that the initial World’s Finest storyline featuring the villain took place years before the events in Robin. There are reasons why this might not be the case for one thing, the Lazarus Demon emerged in the pages of Robin and didn’t announce itself as Nezha, nor resemble Nezha in any particular fashion. What if the Lazarus Demon is the Devil Nezha? You can see where I’m going with this by now, I assume. Moreover, the tournament’s true purpose is to find a warrior worthy of being possessed by what she’s calling the Lazarus Demon, who will then be freed to carry out their mission on Earth. Mother Soul, the mysterious figure behind the tournament and the League of Lazarus as a whole, is revealed to be Rúh al Ghul, mother of Ra’s al Ghul, who worships the demonic entity she believes resides at the heart of the island, whom she believes can control life and death itself.
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It’s revealed midway through the series – spoilers, but you should have read this all along – that the tournament has an ulterior purpose. In the Robin series, the League of Lazarus is responsible for a tournament aimed at finding the deadliest warrior alive, a search made all the more literal for the fact that those participating are able to kill their opponents with the knowledge that they’d return to life soon after. It’s also an island upon which death can be reversed, as long as it happens fewer than three times.
For those who haven’t been reading the current Robin series by Joshua Williamson, Gleb Melnikov, Roger Cruz and others, that name might not have any special meaning, but it should: it’s the headquarters of the League of Lazarus, a splinter group of Ra’s al Ghul’s League of Assassins. The epilogue of last week’s World’s Finest #5 doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the Great Darkness, or the current Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths (or… does it…? We’ll get there soon enough), but it is closely connected to Batman and his family… and, perhaps, a longstanding piece of DC mythology.Īs seen in the final pages of the most recent issue of World’s Finest, the island where the title’s supernatural villain, the Devil Nezha, has been imprisoned is none other than Lazarus Island. Something big is brewing in the DC Universe.
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