‘Peacemaker’ Got here to Comedian-Con to Tease the Finish of Its Personal Universe

Essentially the most in-your-face clarification for what’s occurring with Peacemaker within the new DCU may be discovered exterior of San Diego Comedian-Con.

Merely put—as quickly as you stroll in previous the HBO Max activation marquee for the Peacemaker “Peacefest” within the Gaslamp District, you see an indication that reads, “Calm down, it’s a state of emergency; you’re fucked’, dude.”

io9 was invited to scope out the house, which allowed for some rocking enjoyable as you stroll in by a Quantum Portal into the “altered dimension” of the Peacemaker universe. Hmm, we suspect Lex Luthor’s pocket dimension, and that crack Clark and Mr. Terrific observed at the end of Superman, may need one thing to do with this.

The timed expertise provides you an opportunity to take a look at a number of the props for the sequence, which returns August 21 on HBO Max. One of many main issues we observed immediately was the large Mighty Crabjoys poster adorning one in all Peacemaker’s helmet partitions, so we a minimum of get the sense that Superman may not be the one particular person of their fan membership. Which actually, fortunate for Peacemaker, in case he wants assist from Large Pink at any time when Rick Flagg Sr. lastly will get round to revenge.

Peacefest additionally invited con attendees to get their rock present on to the present’s theme track with a stay band, whereas stations supplied the standard photo-ops, drinks, and a few Mortal Kombat stations to rejoice Peacemaker’s addition to the roster for Mortal Kombat 1. One of many indicators our Peacemaker pals may be in peril was additionally actually this TV underneath a “Misplaced and Discovered” signal with an arrow pointing to the present enjoying on an actual fuzzy and deteriorating VHS tape.

It was, nevertheless, the closing track that gave strategy to some actually distressing spoiler-ish solutions. Because the present ended, the band left, however Peacemaker despatched a message to GTFO whereas one other flashed throughout his face: “Warning: Alternate Dimension Collapsing.” We all know season 2 goes to be coping with bridging the hole between the outdated DCU and DC Studios’ post-Superman, canon, however this makes it really feel like stakes are going to be very dire as Peacemaker tries to make it over to the brand new regular in a single piece… particularly as we all know there’s going to be some Peacemaker vs. Peacemaker shenanigans as nicely. We’ll discover out extra on the San Diego Comedian-Con panel later this week!

Try the gallery under for extra hints and a glance inside Peacefest.

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