DC Bombshells upcoming variants and New Series

[lordultimus]

Marguerite Bennett: DC Comics Bombshells is one of the wildest things I’ve ever had the pleasure to create—a story of the DC heroines, all the DC heroines, in a crisis that defines themselves as well as their generation. I cannot possibly tell you how excited and grateful I am to be involved in a story this massive and inventive. The series will explore war stories, romances, mysteries, heists, action adventure, and horror in a way that only these characters could do—I cannot wait for this book to drop. Pun very much intended.

DC has dropped several Bombshells on us today. First, there will be a digital-first ongoing comic series by writer Marguerite Bennett and artist Marguerite Sauvage called DC Comics Bombshells. According to a press release, it will introduce "retro-bombshell versions of Batwoman, Wonder Woman and Supergirl in an alternate reality where super-powered female heroes are on the front lines in WWII." DC Comics Bombshells #1 will come out August 2015.

Second, DC released a slew of Bombshell variant covers, including some for male characters Aquaman and Sinestro.



Green Lantern #43 variant cover by Emanuela Luppachino w/Tomeu Morey


Harley Quinn #19 variant cover by Ant Lucia


Wonder Woman #43 variant cover by Ant Lucia


Deathstroke #9 variant cover by Emanuella Luppachino w/ Tomeu Morey


Flash #43 by Ant Lucia


New Suicide Squad #11 by Des Taylor


Justice League of America #3 by Terry Dodson w/ Rachel Dodson


Aquaman #43 by Ant Lucia


Green Arrow #43 by Ant Lucia


Justice League #43 by Emanuela Luppachino with Tomeu Morey


Teen Titans #11 by Ant Lucia


Sinestro #14 by Emanuela Luppachino with Tomeu Morey

Comments

[captainbellman]

Funny how Ant Lucia seems to know exactly how Harley and the Joker work, yet DC are running the variant cover anyway...

[informationgeek]

Technically the book comes out August 2015, not 2016. Just a heads up.

But anyways, oh my god, I loved last years bombshell covers despite the noise about them (I love Batwoman's Baseball uniform) and story set in this universe could be a lot of fun. I'm down for it.

Also, I like the Killer Frost cover and her outfit. :D

[lordultimus]

Thanks for pointing that out, fixed. I'm partial to Cheetah's safari outfit myself ;). And it already looks much better than Ame-Comi Girls.

[informationgeek]

I actually enjoyed Ame-Comi Girls. It was pretty fun as well (I especially loved the Batgirl issue), so I'm hoping for a really fun time with this series as well.

Also, the artist did some pretty good covers for Hinterkind and I'm excited to see her do regular pages now.

[deh_tommy]

I like Killer Frost's costume, and enjoyed the original Wonder Woman variant cover.

[icon_uk]

The Dick Grayson one is lovely too, and I might make a separate post as there's some other info I want to put up about his comic! :)

[junipepper]

Yes, please!

[icon_uk]

How old is Ravager in the comics these days, is she still 16 or so? Because that would be rather young for the sort of depiction she's getting on that Deathstroke cover.

[lordultimus]

Isn't Raven a 16 year old too?

[icon_uk]

New 52 Raven? No idea, hard to tell with the pigeon that seemed to be covering her face half the time

[lordultimus]

I just assumed that since these are the Teen Titans, I thought that she'd be around their age.

Though I guess she could be eighteen or nineteen and the name would still work.

[coldfury]

It sounds like DC is going continuity fluid these days, so I guess the answer to your question will invariably be 'old enough for the story we want to tell at this point in time'.

[cainofdreaming]

Okay, Sinestro's Lothario getup made me laugh out loud. That was such a left field moment.

[his_spiffynesss]

I would so love to see somebody at ComicCon cosplay Zoot Suit Siunestro now.

[zapbiffpow]

I also was sold on Dance Instructor Sinestro.

Almost every word on that poster was the best, including the implied White Lantern Corps Rockettes-style kickline.

[long_silence]

This sounds awesome, I wanna see more of the bombshell Hawkgirl

[lieut_kettch]

The Hawketeer?

[night4345]

They're all so great!

[starwolf_oakley]

Does this happen a lot? A toy/statue line is so popular a comic book is based on it?

Well, yes. I mean like this: a bunch of established heroes are altered slightly for statues/toys, and THEN they get their own comic book.

Closest I can think of is how "Two-Face as Batman" was done in an ad for BATMAN REBORN, then appeared as an Action Figure, then was just a hallucination of Dick Grayson as Batman.

[lordultimus]

Don't forget Ame-Comi Girls.

[icon_uk]

Ironic since DC Direct has STILL never given us a "Dick as Batman" action figure... We got Chief Man-Of-Bats, we got Bruce as "existed for all of a single issue "Witch-Hunter Batman" , but no figure of the Batman who was in all the Batman titles for over a year.

[mrstatham]

This is part of the problem with the way DC used to work their figure lines for DC Direct. We barely got anything out of Morrison's run in terms of new figures from DC Direct - and the list of stuff they could have done from there is endless. They did the same for Johns' Action Comics run, giving us a Zod, Ursa, Clark and one other, but then nothing from the rest of the run, such as the redesigned Brainiac or Legion of Superheroes.

By contrast, they've had Capullo design toys for nearly all the prominent Batman rogues - including ones he's never actually drawn in working with Snyder - and they've been pretty comprehensive in stuff like their Teen Titans and Crime Syndicate sets of figures and the like. So I figure the lack of Dick!Batman action figure is probably based on their policy and approach to the toys at the time.

[zapbiffpow]

Given Sensation Comics: Wonder Woman's great run, it's nice to see the DC brass put more faith on the women.

Oh...oh, crap. Wait, this isn't replacing Sensation Comics, is it?

[kurenai_tenka]

Love the bombshells series idea... disappointed it's digital only. Hopefully (like Sensation Comics) there'll be a hard copy soon! In the meantime I can enjoy all the lovely new covers. :)

[junipepper]

It's digital first, which indicates they will release in print, assuming it doesn't completely bomb. Personally I love digital comics; ever since I got my iPad I've bought only digital, and sometimes paper trades. Which is no loss to the comic shops since before that I wasn't buying individual issues at all. (My so-called LCS is a half-hour drive away in a direction we have no other reason to go, and my daughter was harassed in there so -- effectively, no LCS.)

[kurenai_tenka]

Wow, sorry your daughter had such a bad experience there!

Personally I don't buy in comicbook shops anyway because it's just more convenient to buy online... and after you factor in bags and boards, it works out cheaper too. My issue with digital is simply that I prefer to own a physical copy of things, but I'm thinking that in future I might just stick to TPBs instead of buying each issue anyway.

[randyripoff]

These are nice covers. The premise reminds me a bit of Legenderry.

[bradygirl_12]

Magnificent! :)

[sir_razorback]

Sinestro is *awesome* in that cover spread! They're all great, but that one tops the list for me.

[leoboiko]

THAT Aquaman. I want THAT one . Why are we living in the crappy dystopic alternate future were we get 90s Aquaman all over again :(