New History of the DC Universe (2025-) #4

by Mark Waid, Hayden Sherman (Artist), Howard Porter (Artist)

Barry Allen’s documentation of the history of the DC Universe reaches the present day, beginning with the world-changing events of Flashpoint. Heroes face new threats like Perpetua and the Batman Who Laughs, and the next generation of heroes, like Jon Kent, Wallace West, and Jackson Hyde, begin to emerge from the ashes of crisis-level destruction. All leads to Darkseid’s death and a glimpse at what’s to come in the future. You won’t want to miss this final installment!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes

Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2025

About the author

Mark Waid (born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America.

Reviews

[Brandon Roy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clears up the timeline

I didn't realize this was book 4. So I went through it quickly and will have to catch up later.

[Roland Baldwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are several issues I have with this. Overall it’s a solid read. Some elements of recent continuity could have been erased. Especially everything Scott Lobdelll did with Teen Titans

[Rory C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comic Book Reading Wrap Up for Nov 17th-23rd 2025

Loved this!!! (I'd read the previous instalments but have yet to log them)

This epitomises what makes the DC Universe great in my opinion, the history and legacy of the characters. The more they are able to hand over to the next generation, the stronger it is, although there is the inevitable resistance from older fans to this happening. I prefer that to the messy reboots that have happened in the last decade that Mark Waid has done his best to smooth logically into the DC timeline.

Great text section in the back of these further footnoting the DC History with references to the actual issues they take place in, and I have to make special mention of how much I love the Hayden Sherman pages in this. New favourite artist for me this year!

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

concluding a four issue story given a brief history of DC Comics from the early days to current days.

It tries to give you enough information to cover stories you may or may not have missed.

[Phillip Quinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

New History of the DC Universe #4 | Comic Review

I finished New History of the DC Universe # 4, and I’m going to be honest in that I had very little idea what was going on.

So much of this felt way over my head. I’d never heard of many characters.

I’d never heard of so many of these characters or stories. Obviously, I haven’t kept up with comic stories over the years, but I was struggling to wrap my head around some of the brief descriptions of events.

Dick Grayson heard a third persona? Agent 37?

The Omega Titans?

Wally West has kids, and they’re both superheroes!

I’ve got a lot of reading to do if I ever want to learn about all of this. Let’s do it!

Dr. Manhattan?!?!?

I’m going to seek out this specific arc now. I can’t wait to see more about how they included Dr. Manhattan in with the greater DC world.

[Cybernex007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fully honest my review probably shouldn't count as much as others. I will still be adamant that this is an impressive endeavor, and I loved the ending page basically assuring us that history will continue to be influx and constantly changing. And it was funny to see Barry walk into a comic shop with a clear nod to DC and even the comic event where he died, crisis on infinite earths, sitting on the rack. But I did skip over this issue a bit. I loved looking at Hayden Sherman's art and seeing everything they touched on. But from someone starting at the DC all in point and back reading a lot of stuff, this is the kind of stuff I still want to experience myself and read for myself. So other than just looking over all the great art to see what they hit on, I skimmed. Sue me, lol.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Of the four books in the series I found this last one the weakest in terms of art and events. It starts great with the Black Lantern event into Flashpoint, but the later events where heroes turn into animals and the mess with Waller neutering the heroes powers were silly if not awful. I was never a fan of Bendis’ LSH either or some of the drama with Jon Kent and the lame Batman/Catwoman non-wedding.
Art was better in the first three issues though still decent enough.
Overall, a nice read from DC. Interesting as well with Waid writing the last Marvel history a few years back.

[Paloma Montecino · Rating 4 out of 5]

En realidad son 3.5⭐️, pero como es más tirando al lado positivo le pongo 4.
Qsy…hay algunas cosas que me ofende que sean 100% canon ahora y que no podamos fingir demencia. Banco igual que hayan organizado todo porque ahora x ahí es más fácil entender ciertas cosas.
Agradezco esos tres paneles donde salieron mis personajes favoritos.

[luciddreamer99 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little boring, though the illustrations are interesting. Maybe because some of the events described are pretty recent; I found this issue semi-pointless, though the Absolute characters are shown in shadow. Read it you read the other issues.

[Ryan MacLean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it all. Always cool to see the generations of stories somewhat compiled into a timeline, however hard that is to do with so much history.

[Lizzy DeMarco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite interesting compilation of the history. Glad to see the Bat Cat engagement got included!

[Daniel Bingham · Rating 1 out of 5]

This series was a slog to get through. I had hoped it would make me want to read more into various characters I haven’t yet explored. But it just isn’t detailed enough to be interesting

[Joseph Crook · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting and great art but it’s a lot for someone who knows nothing about DC.

[Ryan Gasser · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just okay.

[Jerry Aguirre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good way to finish the new history of DC. I knew a lot of what happened here and it was nice to go back through memory lane.