Next month, DC Comics will launch Power Girl Special #1. The one-shot spins out of the Power Girl back-up tales that lately ran in Action Comics, which have discovered Power Girl adjusting to new telepathic talents following Lazarus Planet and utilizing these talents to assist different heroes all through the DCU. Today DC introduced that the forthcoming one-shot will itself spawn two new titles set to debut in September: a Power Girl solo series from the inventive staff of author Leah Williams and artist Eduardo Pansica, and Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, from author Joanne Starer, artist Natacha Bustos, colorist Tamra Bonvillain, and letterer Ariana Maher.
Here’s DC’s description for Power Girl Special #1’s essential story by Williams and artist Marguerite Sauvage, in addition to for the one-shot’s newly-announced Fire & Ice backup story by Starer, Bustos, Bonvillain, and Maher:
With new powers and a new mission, Power Girl faces a problem not like any she’s skilled earlier than in this surprising one-shot rising from the occasions of Lazarus Planet and Action Comics!
Power Girl Special #1 additionally options a 10-page backup story about Fire and Ice, written by Joanne Starer (The Gimmick, Sirens of the City), and illustrated by artist Natacha Bustos (Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur, Miles Morales: Spider-Man) and colorist Tamra Bonvillain (Wonder Woman, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest), and lettered by GLAAD-award profitable letterer Ariana Maher. In the introductory story, Fire and Ice reply to a pure catastrophe in Baltimore, debating whether or not to contain Ice’s previous flame Guy Gardner. When Guy causes some main drama on the scene, Superman will get concerned to cease the combat.
In addition to previously-revealed variant covers by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau (open-to-order), Amanda Conner (open-to-order), Tula Lotay (1:25 incentive), and Taj Tenfold (1:50 incentive), Power Girl Special #1 may also sport the above new featured variant by David Nakayama, which can come in common and foil variations.
Following the conclusion of July and August’s Knight Terrors occasion, the 2 new series will launch the primary week of September. Here’s data on each Power Girl and Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, in addition to covers for every respective first difficulty by Jonboy Meyers and Terry & Rachel Dodson:
After the occasions of “Knight Terrors,” a lengthy dormant Kryptonian risk has returned to take down Superman and his household. Who might probably cease it? Well, in accordance to Superman, it’s Power Girl. You gained’t need to miss this roadtrip race in opposition to time as Paige reconnects along with her roots and strives to save her newfound household.
Williams & Sauvage’s Power Girl backup tales in Action Comics have been possibly probably the most entertaining and fascinating the character has ever been, so it’s good to see we’ll be getting extra of her in her personal series. Hopefully Lilith Clay, aka Omen, will probably be becoming a member of her in the new series as effectively.
In Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1, Superman despatched the previous Justice Leaguers packing for Smallville to lie low following their extraordinarily public and totally disastrous mission in Baltimore, and in doing so doomed them to a destiny worse than demise: irrelevance. Ice finds herself drawn to the quiet life and goals of planting roots. But Fire…effectively, Fire will do absolutely anything to get the hell outta dodge and again on the Super Hero circuit—together with difficult the DC Universe’s largest villains to a knock-down, drag-out, live-streamed brawl in the streets of Smallville! The series is crafted by author Starer, artist Bustos, colorist Bonvillain, and letterer Maher.
The description of Starer & Bustos’s tackle Fire & Ice is intriguing, and it feels like readers ought to anticipate a cavalcade of large DC villains to pop up in this series.
Look for each Power Girl #1 and Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1 to arrive in shops and digitally on Tuesday, September fifth.
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