DC Comics Solicitations

As we ease into the summer months, we’ve just learned what DC plans to do to wrap them up. It will be an eventful August at your comic shop. The KNIGHT TERRORS continue in the DCU! Superman, Batman, Jim Gordon, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Nightwing, Catwoman, The Joker, Robin, Power Girl, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Green Lantern, Black Adam, Punchline, Ravager, Angel Breaker, Zatanna and the Teen Titans are still trapped in a dream world of evil, and need two issues of their own individual books to break free. It all culminates in NIGHT’S END, a 48-page one-shot where our heroes manage to escape their nightmares but find those nightmares have followed them into the real world! It’s the Justice League vs. the Nightmare League in a crazy finale that hits shelves August 29! Meanwhile, the Penguin’s got his own book again. He’s returned to Gotham to relaunch his criminal empire, which might be difficult as others have filled that gap and his estranged children now run the Iceberg

It’s been a while since an event took place that was so big it ate up most of the month’s solicitation, but that’s what’s happening in July at DC. Welcome to KNIGHT TERRORS: the biggest crossover event of the summer! A powerful new villain called Insonmia traps the DCU in the Nightmare Realm, which does what it says on the tin. Thanks to that guy, each hero and villain will be dealing with their own worst fears individually, across a whopping 21 books! Yikes! After Knight Terrors: First Blood is released July 3, the story continues in the main Knight Terrors mini (the first two of four issues will be released within July). Then SUPERMAN is confronted by the Super-Reaper, BATMAN must deal with a deadly doppleganger, JIM GORDON is being chased by a robotic Batsuit, NIGHTWING finds himself in prison for murder, POISON IVY is trapped in a domestic Stepford suburb, CATWOMAN seeks forgiveness from Batman after killing someone, THE JOKER is stuck as a corporate office drone, ROBIN

June will be here before you know it and so will the following DC Comics. Here are the highlights we picked from this month’s long list…. The Penguin’s got a perfect plan. First, he faked his own death. Then, he framed Batman for the “murder.” Then, he held the offices of DC Comics hostage and yelled “GIVE ME MY OWN BOOK OR NONE OF YOU WALK OUTTA HERE KAWAKWAKWAKWAKWAK.” And now we have THE PENGUIN #1 — the ultimate step in Oswald Cobblepot’s plan for dominance! Penguin was so persuasive that he got DC to release TWO books with his name on them this month: a proper PENGUIN #1 on June 20 and a prequel #0 seven days earlier on June 13. June is Pride Month and this year’s DC PRIDE has plenty of adventures inside with DC’s LGBTQ heroes. There will be new stories for Jon Kent, Constantine, Tim Drake, Circuit Breaker (no idea who that is) and of course, a chaotic date with Harley and Ivy. Also look

April will shower this planet with DC goodness, as proven by the latest three-month-early solicitation released by the superhero factory today. Welcome to the DC Comics Solicitations April 2023! Despite being a visual medium, completely “silent” comics (meaning no dialogue) are tricky to pull off! The text is one of the few resources the author has to control the pace at which the reader is following the story. If that’s taken away, the eye is free to just go wherever it wants, making timing and pacing much MUCH harder to direct. But that’s what Gustavo Duarte will be attempting this month in the unique comic, DC Speechless! Six short comedic stories written and drawn by Duarte will portray your favorite heroes in a wacky new light. This 56-page comic will be released April 18! Thanks to the events of Dark Crisis, Connor Kent is back — and once again taking up the title of Superboy! But the same event that brought him back to Earth-1 also brought other Super-people…so many

There are no lambs in DC’s March 2023 lineup, revealed today. It’s lions all the way through! It was bound to happen — Jon Kent is starring in his OWN BOOK! In this six-issue series he’s tasked with stopping Ultraman from killing off various versions of his father throughout the multiverse! The first issue, written by Tom Taylor with art by Clayton Henry, will appear on our planet March 7. Writer Christopher Priest brings us the tale of Superman: Lost. The Man of Steel has returned from a mission in space — with amnesia! Even though he was absent a brief period, he was actually stuck in space for 20 years, and it affected his mind. This story isn’t about the Earth…it’s about Lois, who is desperate to find something that will bring her husband’s memories back, or she could lose him. The first of ten issues will debut March 14. You thought Lazarus Planet was over. There’s one more story to tell, and the first two halves of it

As we do every month, we’re spilling the beans on what DC Comics is planning three months from now! The full list of titles lies below, but here are the highlights. We start things off with….Superman #1! Yep, it’s yet another reset for the Man of Steel, but an optimistic one. He’s emerged from Dark Crisis triumphant. Lex is in jail. His family is fully functional. Surely something bad is just waiting around the corner, but you’ll have to peek inside this oversized issue to find out. Expect a ridiculous amount of variant covers. Superman #1 goes on sale February 23. We assume Superman’s happy life situation is occurring after the event most DC books are following: Lazarus Planet. Last month’s solicitations revealed the first urgent threat of 2023 will be an eruption that sprays Lazarus stuff all over the world and gives random people powers. In Next Evolution, you’ll meet some of the new heroes that have been born out of this event.In Dark Fate, you’ll get acquianted with

If Final Crisis was the big event of 2022, what’s in store for 2023? The January DC Comics solicitations have the answer. Things are about to get nuts. You are familiar with Lazarus Pits, correct? If not, let us explain that they’re pits of unknown chemicals deep underground that keep Ras Al Ghul from aging. But they do more than that, as….EVERYBODY in the DCU is about to find out. The Lazarus Volcano is erupting and showering its stuff everywhere, giving some Earthlings powers and enhancing the powers of others. At least four stand-alone books are hitting the market detailing these events, to be released one per week. The first is Lazarus Planet: Alpha, coming January 10. The superhero community has their hands full dealing with all the newly powered humans zooming around. Damian Wayne is teaming up with Power Girl, Cyborg, Batman and even Poison Ivy to keep order. One week later Lazarus Planet: Assault On Krypton will be released on January 17. This series doesn’t actually take place

How will DC wrap up an eventful, Crisis-loaded 2022? Find out as we dive into the December Solicitations that were released today. Who’s having a Bad Day in Gotham now? It’s Catwoman! Selina prides herself on being the greatest thief in all the world, so when she slips up, it hits her hard. She just learned an item from her past, which she let go, is now worth a ton of money (must be the Rockin’ Kats NES cartridge she had as a kid). Selina is so upset she just might do something drastic to get it back. Can Batman talk some sense into her? This tale is told in Batman: One Bad Day –Catwoman #1, which comes out December 20. The Dark Crisis will end in December with the seventh and final issue. We’d tell you what the issue summary says but it’s a spoiler. Suffice to say everyone is back (which ISN’T a spoiler as it’s common knowledge now) and they have a big battle ahead of them.

DC has revealed its lineup of comics for November and there’s not a turkey among them! ….We think. I mean, we can’t actually see them, we can’t really make that promise, can we… Marc Silvestri was one of the original gang of hot young artists in the 90s who broke up with Big Comic Book Companies to form their own stomping grounds, Image, which survives to this day and just celebrated their big 30th anniversary. Despite all that, and after all this time, here Marc is writing and illustrating a Big Comic Book Company story. Maybe he’s low on cash. Maybe he’s out of Witchblade ideas. Who knows. But this sudden partnership between Marc and his former enemies is not unlike the situation in his book — Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo. It’s the seven-episode tale of an uneasy partnership between Batman and his greatest foe as they’re forced to work together to figure out why Commissioner Gordon and Harley Quinn have both disappeared, and if it’s connected.