Comic Book / One Year Later

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One Year Later is a comic book branding that ran through a number of books published by DC Comics, which began in March 2006 on issues taking place a year after the events of Infinite Crisis and exploring the ramifications across the DC Universe, hence the title. The Time Skip would be explored upon in the 2006-2007 weekly series 52.

Titles involved

• Action Comics vol. 1 #837-840 ("Superman: Up, Up and Away!")
• Batman vol. 1 #651-654 and Detective Comics #817-820 ("Face the Face")
• Birds of Prey vol. 1 #92-95 ("Progeny")
• Blood Of The Demon vol. 1 #13-17^note The arc wasn't given a name
• Catwoman vol. 3 #53-58 ("The Replacements")
• Green Arrow vol. 3 #60-65 ("Crawling Through the Wreckage")
• Green Lantern vol. 4 ("Revenge of the Green Lanterns")
• JSA Classified #10-13 vol. 1 ("The Rise and Fall of Vandal Savage")
• JSA vol. 1 #83-87 ("Ghost Stories")
• Manhunter vol. 3 #20-24 ("Psychobabble")
• Nightwing vol. 2 #118-124 ("Brothers in Blood")
• Outsiders vol. 3 #34-43 ("The Good Fight")
• Robin vol. 2 #148-153 ("Robin, Boy Wanted")
• Supergirl vol. 5 #6-8 ("Candor")
• Teen Titans vol. 3 #34-37 ("The New Teen Titans")

Renamed titles

• Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis^note retitled from Aquaman vol. 6 #40-45 ("Once and Future")
• Firestorm: The Nuclear Man ^note retitled from Firestorm vol. 2 #23-27^note The arc wasn't given a name during publication, but in 2007, it was collected as Firestorm: The Nuclear Man - Reborn.
• Hawkgirl^note retitled from Hawkman vol. 4 #50-56 ("The Maw")
• Supergirl And The Legion Of Super Heroes^note retitled from Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 5 #16-19 ("Strange Visitor from Another Century")
• Superman^note retitled from Adventures of Superman vol. 1 #650-653 ("Superman: Up, Up and Away!")

Relaunched titles

• The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive vol. 1^note Replacing the Flash vol. 2 ("Lightning in a Bottle")
• Green Lantern Corps vol. 2^note Replacing Green Lantern Corps: Recharge vol. 1 ("To be a Lantern")
• Justice League of America vol. 2^note Replacing JLA vol. 1 ("The Tornado's Path")
• Justice Society of America vol. 3^note Replacing JSA vol. 1 ("The Next Age")
• Wonder Woman vol. 3^note Replacing Wonder Woman vol. 2 ("Who is Wonder Woman?")

New ongoings and mini series

• Blue Beetle vol. 7 #1-6 ("Shellshocked")
• Checkmate vol. 2 #1-4 ("The Game of Kings")
• Crisis Aftermath: Battle for Blüdhaven vol. 1 #1-6 ("The Battle for Blüdhaven")
• Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre vol. 1 #1-3 ("Dead Again")
• Ion vol. 1 #1-6 ("The Torch Bearer")
• Secret Six vol. 2 #1-6 ("Six Degrees of Devastation")
• Shadowpact vol. 1 #1-8 ("The Pentacle Plot")

One Year Later presents examples of the following tropes:

• Adaptational Protagonist: Hawkgirl and Bart Allen became the protagonists of Hawkgirl (2006) and The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive (2006).
• Face–Heel Turn: Batgirl goes from an All-Loving Hero who went through great lenghts to move beyond her past as a killer, to a cackling Dragon Lady who murders Nyssa Raatko and works for the League of Assassins. This decision proved so unpopular it required being later retconned as Cassandra having been drugged and brainwashed by Deathstroke.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Upon his return in Birds of Prey, Prometheus is portrayed closer to how he was in JLA before Villain Decay set in, as an Evil Genius and One-Man Army whose cybernetic enhancements make him the World's Best Warrior.
• How We Got Here: Occasionally, the comics would begin with a radical new status quo and only explain how it came to be in the following issues.
• Time Skip: All comics jumped one year into the future.