Before the two can determine who’s the quicker draw, Cole is abruptly pulled away to another reality as his multiversal odyssey continues.Ĭole begins to lose track of the number of worlds that he visits over the course of WildC.A.T.s #7, revealing that he spends anywhere from a few hours to a few days with each multiversal leap. Though his confrontation with Void leaves the rest of the WildC.A.T.s believing that he died, Cole regains his bearings in a Wild West town known simply as Salvation where he finds himself in a duel with notorious gunslinger Jonah Hex. Grifter’s brush with an otherworldly purgatoryĪfter the HALO Corporation unveils its corporate-backed superhero team, the Seven Soldiers of Victory, Grifter immediately becomes suspicious of their true intentions and investigates the matter for himself. Here’s how WildC.A.T.s’ uses the presumed-dead-lost-in-the-multiverse trope, other major instances of its usage in the past several years of mainline DCU stories, and the relatively concurrent deployment of the narrative device in both DC and Marvel well over a decade ago. And though the trope has gotten a lot of prominent usage across the DCU, it is far from the only time major DC and Marvel titles have used this device for their most iconic characters.

A little bit Quantum Leap and a little bit Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the narrative device gives characters the chance to operate outside of their normal status quo as the world around them reflects on their absence. This strange, presumed death of a DC hero only from them to be whisked away to parts unknown is an increasingly recurring trope that’s been seen throughout DC’s titles recently. In reality, Cole Cash has been transported to different worlds across the DC Multiverse, trying to survive the dangers of each universe while finding a way to return back home to the DCU.

Taking point against HALO’s cosmically powered mastermind, the Void, is the reckless, gun-wielding antihero Grifter who appears to kill the Void only to be caught in the middle of a resulting explosion, apparently dying in the process. The WildStorm legacy lives on in the DC Universe, with a new WildC.A.T.s title by Matthew Rosenberg, Danny Kim, and Christian Duce, set firmly in the DCU, with the gritty heroes taking on the sinister HALO Corporation as they cross paths with familiar DC heroes and villains.

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