The saying "It's always darkest before the dawn" never made a lot of sense anyway, but in this case, it is grossly inadequate. The entirety of the crisis was pitch black, as the voices of thousands of disappointed souls nagged my panicked subconscious mind. When the sheer magnitude of this apocalypse became apparent, I moaned and sobbed in a cold sweat as I alternated between blindingly pounding my keyboard in futility, and shaking my fists at the heavens, cursing the very existence of the universe.