We Are Legends is to be a part of the year-long Dawn of DC storytelling initiative, with the launch of three six-issue sequence: Spirit World, The Vigil, and City Boy.
Bleeding Cool has already advised you that simply earlier than Free Comic Book Day, Marvel Comics is publishing a Best of Marvel Backlist free comedian. And that ten days after Free Comic Book Day, DC Comics will publish, free of charge, the Dawn Of DC Primer for any returning new clients. Well, add one other to their not-Free Comic Book Day free comics, with We Are Legends.
We Are Legends is to be a part of the year-long Dawn of DC storytelling initiative, with the launch of three six-issue sequence: Spirit World, The Vigil, and City Boy. Each options new characters of AAPI heritage as leads of their very own books. And this free comedian will reprint a few of their early appearances.
Earlier this yr, these heroes first made their presence identified throughout the DC Universe within the Wildstorm thirtieth Anniversary ebook, Detective Comics and the Lazarus Planet crossover. In the newly introduced Dawn of DC We Are Legends Special Edition promotional comedian ebook, you may meet City Boy in a narrative that first appeared in Lazarus Planet: Legends Reborn, get to know Xanthe and their distinctive mission in a Spirit World story from Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate, and obtain intel on the mysterious group referred to as the Vigil in an excerpt from Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution.
All three brief tales are included on this comedian, offering all the pieces readers must know to leap on board Spirit World, The Vigil, and City Boy beginning in May.
This promotional comedian will likely be made accessible free to retailers, in quantities their ordered copies of Batman #133, rounded as much as the closest 25. Retailers can order further portions in bundles of 25 for $7.50.
Dawn of DC We Are Legends Special Edition will arrive in comics retailers for an on-sale date of the 2nd of May, 4 days earlier than Free Comic Book Day, permitting retailers the flexibleness to incorporate it alongside their FCBD choices if they want. It goes to FOC this weekend.
CITY BOY #1 (OF 6) CVR A MINKYU JUNG & SUNNY GHO
(W) Greg Pak (A) Minkyu Jung (CA) Minkyu Jung – Sunny Gho
First seen in Wildstorm thirtieth Anniversary Special and Lazarus Planet: Legends Reborn, there is a new Korean hero named…City Boy! Or at the very least, that is the most effective translation of what the cities name him. City Boy, a.ok.a. Cameron Kim, is simply making an attempt to make a residing through the use of his powers of with the ability to communicate to cities to seek out misplaced and hidden items to pawn, and it is solely simply sufficient to get by. And these skills imply he hears all the pieces all over the place on a regular basis, together with every metropolis’s histories and the truths behind them. (It’s very loud in his head and one thing he has to dwell with.) As his powers get stronger, the cities begin forming animal avatars from scraps in an effort to bodily journey alongside him on his adventures. Of course, Gotham is a rat avatar product of metropolis scraps, however what about Metropolis, Blüdhaven, Amnesty Bay, and even Themyscira? And not all cities are so type…
Retail: $3.99 In-Store Date: 5/23/2023
SPIRIT WORLD #1 (OF 6) CVR A HAINING
(W) Alyssa Wong (A/CA) Haining
From the pages of Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate, a brand new Chinese hero emerges who’s capable of journey to and from the Spirit World, the realm of the useless, and that of the residing. Their identify is Xanthe, and their superpower is with the ability to burn objects folded from joss paper and instantly flip them into actual objects, primarily based on the East Asian follow of burning joss paper at graveyards in an effort to ship sources to ancestors within the Spirit World…besides Xanthe can retrieve these objects on the earth of the residing! Their weapon of alternative is a big broadsword (as a result of who does not love a giant sword when you may select to make use of a giant sword?!). Xanthe is a grasp of the darkish arts who’s right here to present Constantine a run for his cash…actually. When Constantine reveals up saying Xanthe scammed him into shopping for one thing, he finds them and Batgirl Cass Cain combating an irregular inflow of jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampires) and joins in to assist. But when a portal opens up that drags Batgirl into the Spirit World, it is as much as Xanthe and Constantine to journey to the land of the spirits to rescue her! Who is aware of what different spirits we’ll discover within the Spirit World—like that skateboarding boy carrying hanfu with some headphones and a gaping gap in his chest?!
Retail: $3.99 In-Store Date: 5/9/2023
THE VIGIL #1 (OF 6) CVR A SUMIT KUMAR
(W) Ram V (A) Lalit Kumar Sharma (CA) Sumit Kumar
/…/ /Who Are The Vigil? The transport vessel Eastwind was taken captive by pirates off the coast of Thailand. 24 hours after the crew had been taken hostage, earlier than communications had been established or any calls for made, the crew reported an intervention by a gaggle of unknown people. Amid different weird claims by the crew, are studies of a person who modified his look at will and a lady who seemingly dodged bullets. Once the pirates had been taken out, no makes an attempt had been made at rescuing the crew. There have lengthy been rumors rogue metahumans focusing on weaponized unlawful know-how. With some hinting that they name themselves The Vigil. What had been they after? Why did they intervene? Are there metas amongst us? Stay tuned for extra/ /…/ /you’re being watched./
Retail: $3.99 In-Store Date: 5/16/2023
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