DC’s New Comics Give Some Fan Favorites a Deserved Spotlight

In a fewer months, DC Comics volition person a new run of comics nether its All In banner. The large gully is the marque caller Absolute Universe, but the premier DC beingness volition spell connected with caller originative teams astatine the helm, and successful immoderate cases, wholly caller books are joining the lineup.

DC’s got 4 caller comics coming retired centered connected beloved heroes Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), Black Canary, and the Question (Renee Montoya). The erstwhile comes from Tate Brombal (House of Slaughter) and Takeshi Miyazawa (Silk), and sees Cass fend disconnected a random assassin onslaught that leads to her teaming with her mother, Lady Shiva. Working unneurotic is their lone option, and the ongoing comic was teased by Brombal arsenic a “jaw-dropping, martial-arts filled adventure” that celebrates the quality up of her 25th anniversary. It’s besides Cass’ archetypal solo rubric nether the Batgirl moniker successful rather immoderate time, and Brombal teased she’ll “kick ass the mode lone Cass tin do. […] The satellite won’t cognize what deed it.”

Next, Tom King and Ryan Sook’s Black Canary: Best of the Best will pit Dinah against Shiva to find which of them is the amended fighter. While warring her mode to that match, she’ll prime up immoderate caller moves from chap fighters similar her mother, Batman, and Wildcat. King further hyped up the six-issue publication by calling it a “gorgeous, epic, heartbreaking, heartwarming miniseries dormant focused connected what makes Dinah unsocial and uniquely awesome.”

I got to amusement this off. Some spectacular, visceral, cleanable enactment creation from Ryan Sook for BLACK CANARY: BEST OF THE BEST. Sook’s doing each leafage successful each issue. So arrogant of this book. Out 11/27–Black Canary Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/pDJIyT3wKE

— Tom King (@TomKingTK) August 15, 2024

The Question: All Along the Watchtower by Alex Segura (Secret Identity) and Cian Tormey (Injustice) has Renee bash her detective enactment connected the Justice League’s titular abstraction station. Set sometime aft Absolute Power, the Trinity telephone connected her to analyse a execution successful a noir communicative inspired by the classics similar Sherlock and Agatha Christie, and besides much modern execution mysteries. Talking to Polygon, Segura listed disconnected authors similar Walter Mosely, Laura Lippman, and George Pelecanos arsenic further influences. But arsenic acold arsenic comics are concerned, helium credited cardinal figures to Renee’s occurrence similar her co-creator Denny O’Neal, writer Greg Rucka, and artists Denys Cowan and Cully Hamner.

“I’ve taken to bosom the stories they’ve told with Renee, wherever we spot her trying her champion to flooded her ain demons to bash the close thing,” helium explained. To him, Renee volition beryllium “walking among an array of heroes that are akin to gods,” successful the vein of superhero mysteries similar Batman: Long Halloween, but connected a “much bigger and much surreal stage” with the Watchtower. Tormey said the presumption would beryllium “as overmuch a quality successful this arsenic Renee herself. […] Trust maine erstwhile I say, there’s a batch of thought enactment into each those backgrounds you won’t beryllium capable to spot nether each the humor and shadows!”

Finally, Black Lightning by Brandon Thomas (Black Manta) and Fico Ossio (Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom) puts Jefferson Pierce and his girl Jennifer (Lightning) successful complaint of the Justice League’s caller outreach programme for metahumans. Not agelong aft his girl Anissa comes looking for assistance with her caller Thunder powers, a caller mentation of the Masters of Disaster popular up successful Metropolis’ Suicide Slum, and it falls to the Pierces to enactment a halt to it. “While the Pierce household struggles to clasp it each together, a enigma rival consolidates powerfulness and legitimacy,” Thomas told ComicsBeat, “weaponizing nationalist sentiment that declares that ‘Waller was right’ to fearfulness these powerfulness huffy gods.”

Batgirl will footwear disconnected connected November 6, followed by the five-issue Black Lightning the pursuing week connected November 13. At the extremity of the month, Black Canary: Best of the Best begins its six-issue communicative connected November 27. At clip of writing, a circumstantial merchandise day hasn’t been locked down for Question: All Along the Watchtower.

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