The DCU becomes a BEAST WORLD in new event series

Things are about to get savage in the DC Universe. At right this moment’s Jim Lee & Friends panel at San Diego Comic Con, DC Comics introduced Beast World, a new event storyline from author Tom Taylor and artist Ivan Reis. The story spins out of Taylor & Nicola Scott‘s ongoing Titans series, and finds Earth underneath siege by interstellar sea stars led not by Starro, however by new villain Necrostar.

Here’s how DC describes Beast World:

Clawing its manner out of the pages of Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott’s Titans “Dawn of DC” comedian ebook series comes an unprecedented menace to the DC Universe, an intergalactic Sea Star—a conqueror like Starro, however one that’s way more scary. Superman, Wonder Woman, Starfire—all are powerless to cease The Necrostar from ending all life on Earth. And the one Super Hero who can save the world is…Beast Boy?!

With Nightwing, Raven, Cyborg and the Titans beside him, can Garfield Logan rise to battle an historic evil? Or is he doomed to turn into the best menace to the DC Universe? What will Amanda Waller do to benefit from the state of affairs as thousands and thousands of persons are became rampaging creatures? And can humanity survive omnipotent Super Heroes and Super-Villains remodeled into ferocious beasts?

The event storyline will play out in the pages of new series Titans: Beast World, which can launch in November and run into January. Before that series launches, although, Tales of the Titans #4 will set the stage for Beast Boy’s position in the storyline in a story by Andrew Constant, Ted Brandt, and Ro Stein.

More particulars from DC’s PR (which feels prefer it’s actually giving a lot away, however perhaps not):

As the Titans rally collectively in the pages of Titans: Beast World to arrange to struggle the intergalactic beast, The Necrostar, Starfire discovers the way it was first defeated by the Tamaraneans of the previous: it was crushed by Starro. Luckily, the Titans have a warrior that may take the form and match the powers of a world-conqueror like Starro—Beast Boy!

And what does all of this need to do with Amanda Waller? The menace Beast Boy poses will additional Amanda Waller’s campaign towards metahumans and her anti-alien alliance…by any means obligatory. As Waller appears to be like for methods to take Starro Beast Boy down, she is going to kind a cautious understanding with none aside from Lex Luthor—as an knowledgeable in coping with alien threats.

Beast World is the primary event storyline for DC from author Tom Taylor, and the most recent from artist Ivan Reis, who beforehand illustrated the 2009 Blackest Night event series with author Geoff Johns. In the assertion, Taylor expressed his enthusiasm at bringing Beast World to readers:

“I’m beyond excited to bring this DC crossover event to life starting in November with our new Titans: Beast World series, featuring art by the incomparable Ivan Reis. ‘Beast World’ will also thread the needle between the current series that I’m writing about the Titans,” mentioned author Tom Taylor. “Friends will fall. Super Heroes will rise. And nothing will ever be the same again. Earth is about to become…Beast World.”

“I’ve been known for tearing peoples hearts out — readers and characters,” Taylor elaborated on the stage on the Jim Lee & Friends panel, earlier than persevering with, “And that’s essentially what we’re doing here.” Taylor additionally teased that “Beast Boy-Starro becomes the greatest threat in the DC Universe,” to the dismay of not less than one individual in the gang.

Check out a few teaser photos for the storyline, together with idea artwork for Necrostar and for upcoming new character Doctor Hate, under. Titans: Beast World #1 is about to reach in shops and digitally in November. More info on the event continues to be to return.

(With on-site reporting from Zack Quaintance)