If you’re a diligent fan of DC Comics and particularly Superman, you may have certainly already learn The Beat’s wonderful publish about what was revealed in Saturday’s Superman panel at New York Comic Con.
In that publish, we detailed DC’s publishing plans for Superman in 2023, which primarily boil all the way down to a brand new Superman #1 by author Joshua Williamson and artist Jamaal Campbell (with future arcs illustrated by Nick Dragotta to keep up the month-to-month tempo); a brand new six-issue miniseries titled The Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent by author Tom Taylor and artist Clayton Henry; and the continuation of author Phillip Kennedy Johnson’s Action Comics run.
That final one, Action Comics, will see the ebook increasing into an outsized anthology format (a la Batman Urban Legends). Johnson will probably be persevering with the primary story in that ebook after the wonderful War World Saga, now collaborating with artist Rafa Sandoval, whereas there will probably be two extra tales occurring in its pages. The first is about Power Girl, and it’s by author Leah Williams with artist Marguerite Sauvage, and the opposite will probably be in regards to the misplaced adventures of younger Jon Kent, written by long-time tremendous scribe Dan Jurgens with artwork by Lee Weeks.
So, that’s the short recap, and now with this extra publish, we have now some new details so as to add straight from the creators who had been on the panel, which was moderated by Alex Segura and featured Williamson, Johnson, Jurgens, and author Mark Russell, who will conclude the three-part Mike Allred collaboration, Superman: Space Age in February of 2023.
Williamson — who’s presently helming DC’s massive 2022 occasion, Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths — revealed some more information about his forthcoming Superman run. Williamson used the previous “it’s always darkest before the dawn” saying, with Dark Crisis being the darkness and his forthcoming run on Superman being the daybreak.
“I really wanted DC next year to go into a brighter future,” Williamson stated, “and if I was going to work on anything after Dark Crisis, there was only one character to carry us into that brightness — Superman.”
The story in Action Comics #1050 that units up Williamson’s run, he stated, can be the primary to happen chronologically following the conclusion of Dark Crisis, “and in that story Lex and Superman have it out.”
In truth, Lex does one thing so heinous and their struggle is so extreme that they’ve an enormous struggle, one which finally ends Lex behind bars. Lex, nonetheless, will stay outstanding in Williamson’s run, with the author saying that Lex will notice that Superman is at all times listening for his voice, which rapidly turns into information he makes use of to torment Superman (Lex, for instance, builds a watch much like Jimmy Olsen’s Superman watch, besides his watch sounds completely horrible).
“Lex has actually finally come to the conclusion that the world needs Superman,” Williamson stated on the panel.
He added, “One of the ways Lex deals with this is to say, ‘If the world is going to have Superman, it’s going to have my Superman.”
The first arc of Williamson’s run is titled Night of the Parasite, whereas the second will probably be So I Married A Supervillain, inside which Jimmy Olsen will turn out to be romantically entangled with a supervillain (“Classic Jimmy!” yelled somebody proper subsequent to me in the course of the panel.)
Another main takeaway from Williamson’s remarks was how carefully the creatives on all the Super titles at the moment are working collectively, with Williamson saying he was a giant fan of what Johnson and Taylor had been writing of their books, including, “I wanted to work with them and I felt like it was important their stories continue.”
Johnson had so much to say about his plans for Action Comics, too. He stated whereas the mission assertion for his War World tales was “Superman as champion of the oppressed”, the following section of his work with the character will probably be centered across the Super household, from Kara to Connor to Lois.
“We’re going to define what makes them all different,” Johnson stated.
Also that includes prominently in Superman 2023 plans will probably be John and Natasha Irons, the Steel characters. The comics will discover “the Kryptonization of Metropolis,” Johnson stated, with Superman’s residence evolving into the true metropolis of tomorrow. The Irons will probably be a giant a part of this.
“It’s a whole new era of Action Comics that harkens back to the Triangle Era,” Johnson stated.
Finally, Jurgens additionally shared some details about what he has deliberate for the upcoming thirtieth anniversary Death of Superman particular, in addition to for his future work with younger Jon Kent. Specifically, there will probably be a storyline wherein Jon learns all in regards to the occasions of Death of Superman at some point when his college instructor begins speaking about an important day within the historical past of Metropolis. Jon has no concept his father as soon as died and got here again to life.
“His parents never bothered to tell him because how do you explain that?” Jurgens stated.
And that is all simply the beginning for Superman 2023 plans.
“It’s not just the two of our books,” Williamson stated. “There’s a lot we have planned with other stuff we haven’t announced yet.”
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