The parade of announcements from DC Comics rolls on as the publisher announced a slew of new #1 issues and the creative teams involved as part of the wholesale launching of a new DCU this fall. It appears that a good portion of the Vertigo world has been subsumed into the new DCU along with bits of Wildstorm (Voodoo). Forty years after his creation, Swamp Thing returns in Swamp Thing #1 written by Scott Snyder (American Vampire) with art by Yannick Paquette (Batman Incorporated), who also provides the cover image.
The Dark Side of the new DCU has its super team as well. Justice League Dark is composed of John Constantine, Deadman, Madame Xanadu, and Shade the Changing Man. This group of supernatural heroes bands together to stop the dark supernatural forces the rest of the DCU doesn’t see. Peter Milligan is writing
Justice League Dark #1, with artist Mikel Janin supplying the pencils.
Jeff Lemire (
Essex County) takes over the writing of
Animal Man, and as might be expected, the title will have more of a domestic, character-driven focus. Buddy Baker has gone from “super” man to family man, but can he hold it together when his daughter Maxine starts manifesting her own dangerous powers in
Animal Man #1, which will feature art by Dan Green and Travel Foreman.
Writer Paul Cornell takes the new DCU back to the Middle Ages in
Demon Knights #1, in which the Demon leads an unlikely team attempting to defend civilization and the last vestiges of Camelot against the sweep of history. Artists Diogenes Neves and Oclair Albert illustrate this new series that combines sorcery, swords, and superheroes.
Jeff Lemire is also penning the further adventures of Mary Shelley’s most famous creation in
Frankenstein, Agent of Shade #1, a dark new series in which the Frankenstein monster and his network of strange beings work for a bizarre governmental agency known as The Super Human Advanced Defense Agency. Alberto Ponticelli will provide the pencils.
The cult favorite Resurrection Man, who is revived with new powers every time he is killed, returns in
Resurrection Man #1 by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, and Fernando Dagnino.
In
I, Vampire #1 Andrew Bennett, who remains tortured by his love for the Queen of the Damned, must save humanity from the violent uprising of his fellow vampires, even though it may mean exterminating his own kind. Josh Fialkov scripts the saga, while Andrea Sorrentino provides the art.
In
Voodoo #1 Priscilla Kitaen has just learned that she is a half-alien hybrid. Now she must confront the secrets of her past in order to make sense of the present. Ron Marz is writing this saga with Sami Basri providing the art.
