DC Came to NYCC With Absolute Reveals and Some Big Returns

Big events similar New York Comic-Con springiness publishers a bully crushed to tee up immoderate upcoming comics and large events to travel passim the adjacent year. Marvel already revealed their 2025 lineup volition see Doctor Doom ruling the satellite and an all-new Ultimate Wolverine, but what’s going connected with DC? We broke down 5 of the biggest announcement to travel from the publisher, which includes caller fresh stories and respective returning fan-favorites.

Peacemaker is dipping into comics

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Max’s Peacemaker is presently expected to travel backmost for season two sometime adjacent year. To tide you implicit until then, DC is releasing the show’s first-ever comic publication spinoff, Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante/Eagly Double Feature!. Tim Seely (Money Shot) and Mitch Gerads (Mister Miracle) volition tackle the Vigilante stories, portion Rex Ogle and Matteo Lolli grip Eagly’s tales. Set betwixt the show’s 2 seasons, the Vigilante stories volition spot the goofy antihero teardrop his mode done the transgression assemblage based connected the presumption that thing bad’s happened to Peacemaker and Eagly erstwhile they’re not home. In Eagly’s story, we find retired helium and Peacemaker are connected a “bromantic” travel to Alaska they forgot to archer Vigilante about, but things instrumentality a crook for the worse erstwhile their formation is hijacked by supervillains looking to hunt them and the different passengers for sport.

The five-issue Vigilante/Eagly Double Feature! kicks disconnected sometime adjacent year.

The Justice League volition combat Godzilla warring King Kong again

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It was lone past twelvemonth that DC’s mightiest heroes were caught successful the mediate of a clash betwixt Godzilla and King Kong. Come 2025, they’ll beryllium backmost to bash the kaiju creation again in Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong 2. Once again by Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce, the sequel sees the League hop implicit to the MonsterVerse erstwhile they larn immoderate of their villains (Lex, Cheetah, and Harley, to sanction a few) person decided to effort and weaponize Titans similar Ghidorah and Rodan. You tin conjecture however that’ll go, but hey, Wonder Woman oregon Batman riding connected Mothra definite volition beryllium a show to behold erstwhile the publication lands successful 2025.

The Absolute beingness is preparing to get bigger

Break retired the Chocos! Announcing Absolute Martian Manhunter bid by @DenizCamp and @javiercaster! Coming March 2025 pic.twitter.com/4gsXeXcBu7

— DC (@DCOfficial) October 18, 2024

Last week, DC’s caller Absolute enactment of comics kicked disconnected with Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s Absolute Batman. Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman’s Absolute Wonder Woman launches aboriginal this week, and Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval’s Absolute Superman arrives successful November, but there’s more stories connected the horizon: question 2 of the enactment volition diagnostic Absolute Flash from Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles, Absolute Green Lantern by Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay, and the recently announced Absolute Martian Manhunter from Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez.

Camp, writer of 20th Century Men and The Ultimates, described Manhunter as “the astir radical Absolute reinvention truthful far.” The book centers connected FBI cause John Jones, who has his caput repeatedly invaded by an alien consciousness that conscionable uses “Martian” arsenic a shorthand to picture himself. This is simply a intelligence fearfulness story, and John volition “slowly spell insane, but successful a truly amusive benignant of way. The publication is astir a implicit outsider’s position connected the satellite combined with a implicit insider’s presumption of the world.”

As for Absolute Flash and Green Lantern, DC revealed immoderate creation from their respective books. The erstwhile stars a teen Wally West going up against classical Rogues similar Captains Cold and Boomerang, portion the second is an ensemble portion featuring Jo Mullein, John Stewart, and Hal Jordan. All three Absolute books volition merchandise successful 2025. Also connected the docket for 2025 is immoderate benignant of crossover betwixt the Absolute and premier DC universes: astatine the con, Snyder teased a “big, amusive event” adjacent autumn that “brings a batch of this worldly together.”

Absolute Green Lantern #1 creation by Jahnoy Lindsay

Al Ewing said This volition beryllium an ensemble publication featuring Jo,Hal,John and Guy Gardner! But Hal and Jo Mullein are the main ones successful the book! pic.twitter.com/IGGXYnX0n1

— DCU Updates (@dcuworld) October 18, 2024

Somehow, Hush has returned…

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At the “Jim Lee and Friends” panel, the creator revealed helium and writer Jeph Loeb were reteaming connected a sequel to Batman: Hush, which introduced Bruce’s puerility person Tommy Elliot turned evil lookalike (and bandaged serial killer) Hush. A 20th day re-release successful 2022 featured a marque caller epilogue, and Hush was recently adapted into 1 of DC’s animated movies, truthful a sequel felt astir inevitable. The duo volition statesman their sequel successful March 2025 with Batman #158, seemingly confirming caller rumors that Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez’s existent tally would beryllium wrapping aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth truthful the 2 could instrumentality implicit the main Bat-comic. But earlier that point, there’ll beryllium a prelude communicative successful November’s Justice League Unlimited #1 to assistance acceptable the signifier for Batman’s adjacent saga.

…And truthful has Vertigo, too

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Hush ain’t the lone 1 making a comeback. The fan-favorite Vertigo imprint is being revived aft being retired successful 2019, with an accent connected creator-owned projects. (DC Black Label, which efficaciously existed arsenic its replacement, volition seemingly instrumentality to handling mature takes of the brand’s existing characters.) The archetypal “new” Vertigo publication volition beryllium a reprint of James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martinez Bueno’s The Nice House connected the Lake, with upcoming issues of its existent sequel bid The Nice House by the Sea to be published nether the imprint going forward. At the moment, this is the lone publication confirmed for the resurrected Vertigo, and enforcement exertion Chris Conroy said much would beryllium revealed successful the coming months, on with immoderate “surprises from the archives.”

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