DC hopes to construct on this stable basis by including extra characters and taking greater swings with the road. On March 19, Absolute Flash races onto cabinets, from Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles. Absolute Flash options Wally West because the one and solely quickest man alive, and not using a household or different Flashes and with out even a Velocity Pressure. One week later, Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez make Absolute Martian Manhunter into one of many line’s strangest heroes, introducing John Jones (not a misspelling) as an FBI agent bothered with a virus referred to as “the Martian.” Lastly, Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay introduce the road’s first group e-book on April 2 with Absolute Inexperienced Lantern, that includes Jo Mullein, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Man Gardner.
We Are Yesterday
As a lot enjoyable because the Absolute comics have been, the mainline DC universe has been no slouch both, due to the nice All In initiative. The corporate hopes to maintain that rolling with the not too long ago introduced We Are Yesterday crossover, spearheaded by the legendary Mark Waid. We Are Yesterday sees Superman, Batman, and the Justice League stymied by Gorilla Grodd, who has one way or the other gained data of the longer term.
Waid has been nice for many years, however he’s actually hit a brand new stride at DC not too long ago, combining political commentary with old-school superheroics in Absolute Energy, infusing new enjoyable into Shazam! and Batman and Robin, and at last giving us a mainline Justice League Limitless comedian. We Are Yesterday guarantees to proceed that vein, which makes it way more compelling than the usual summer time crossover. The festivities start this June’s Batman/Superman: World’s Most interesting #38 by Waid and Dan Mora, and can proceed into Justice League Limitless.
The Return of Vertigo
Even six years later, it’s exhausting to know why DC thought it smart to shutter Vertigo Comics, the imprint launched in 1993 that gave us a number of the finest Mature Readers comics of all time, masterpieces reminiscent of Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman, Rachel Pollack’s continuation of Grant Morrison‘s Doom Patrol, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan runs on Hellblazer, and extra. DC’s Vertigo-like Black Label imprint has actually had some compelling entries, however there’s one thing particular about that Vertigo identify.
So it’s good to see DC reinstating the imprint and transferring the currently-publishing horror sequence The Good Home By The Sea by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno beneath the Vertigo banner. Extra Vertigo bulletins are coming, however editor Chris Conroy has additionally assured readers that Black Label will stick round, largely for Mature Readers takes on established heroes, reminiscent of Batman: Damned and Peacemaker Tries Arduous.
Tom King on Surprise Lady and Black Canary: The Better of the Finest
Tom King stays one of the crucial divisive writers in comics, particularly when he’s engaged on mainline ongoing books. Whereas everybody (largely) agrees that his restricted sequence Imaginative and prescient and Mister Miracle are good, individuals nonetheless gripe about his Batman ongoing and the occasion miniseries Heroes in Disaster. But, the Surprise Lady ongoing that King started in 2023 has been largely properly acquired, even because it heads into a brand new yr. King and artist Daniel Sampere’s newest storyline, “The Battle of Surprise,” kicked off with Surprise Lady #17 on January 22, by which Diana and the Surprise Women of the previous and current face off towards huge unhealthy the Sovereign, the key King of America.
