DC Comics February 2021 Solicitations

[lordultimus]

source: CBR.com




FUTURE STATE: SUPERMAN: HOUSE OF EL #1
written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON
art by SCOTT GODLEWSKI
cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
card stock variant cover by JAY ANACLETO
ONE-SHOT | ON SALE 2/23/21
$5.99 US | 48 PAGES | FC | DC
CARD STOCK VARIANT COVER $6.99 US
Centuries into the future, the bloodline of Kal-El, the hero we know as Clark Kent, continues. Meet a new generation of Kryptonian heroes as they stand against one of the greatest threats they’ve ever faced: a diabolical foe called the Red King. Get ready for the unexpected debuts of the twins known as Rowan and Ronan Kent, descendants of Jonathan Kent. Rowan is the new Superman of Earth, while his sister is a Blue Lantern. Also on board are Theand’r Ban-El, whose mother was Tamaranean, and other heroes—all led by the original Man of Steel himself! Plus, don’t miss an appearance by the Black Racer!
See how the future of the Superman Family comes together in this wild, extra-size special!



FUTURE STATE: THE FLASH #2
written by BRANDON VIETTI
art and cover by BRANDON PETERSON
card stock variant cover by KAARE ANDREWS
ON SALE 2/2/21
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | 2 OF 2 | FC | DC
CARD STOCK COVER $4.99 US
All hope is lost as Barry Allen races to save his former partner, Wally West. Armed with the weapons of the Rogues who once tried to destroy the Flash, Barry plots an attack that’ll either free the former Kid Flash from the evil that’s possessed him—or end his threat forever!



FUTURE STATE: SHAZAM! #2
written by TIM SHERIDAN
art by EDUARDO PANSICA
cover by BERNARD CHANG
card stock variant cover by GERALD PAREL
ON SALE 2/16/21
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | 2 OF 2 | FC | DC
CARD STOCK COVER $4.99 US
Shazam’s soul is laid bare as he’s confronted by one of the most powerful beings in the 
DC Universe! Revealing shocking secrets and the final fate of Billy Batson, the boy who was Earth’s Mightiest Mortal, this issue introduces a deadly new threat born from the ashes of the Teen Titans Academy: Raven!



FUTURE STATE: SUPERMAN OF METROPOLIS #2
“Superman of Metropolis” written by SEAN LEWIS
“Superman of Metropolis” art by JOHN TIMMS
“The Guardian” written by SEAN LEWIS
“The Guardian” art by CULLY HAMNER
“Mister Miracle” written by BRANDON EASTON
“Mister Miracle” art by VALENTINE DE LANDRO
cover by JOHN TIMMS
card stock variant cover by INHYUK LEE
ON SALE 2/2/21
$5.99 US | 48 PAGES | 2 OF 2 | FC | DC
CARD STOCK VARIANT COVERS $6.99 US
Braincells, the advanced offshoot of the diabolical Brainiac, continues to lure Jonathan Kent down the wrong path—but things go from bad to this can’t get any worse when it appears it has also taken some manner of control over Supergirl! If the Kryptonians clash, nothing will be able to protect the bottled city of Metropolis!
Meanwhile, inside the bottle itself, the Guardian is doing everything he can to stop the city from destroying itself from within, while Mister Miracle has discovered the trail of a strange signal that he doesn’t realize will take him to Warworld.



GENERATIONS FORGED #1
written by DAN JURGENS, ANDY SCHMIDT, and ROBERT VENDITTI
art by BRYAN HITCH, MIKE PERKINS, BERNARD CHANG, PAUL PELLETIER, and others
cover by LIAM SHARP
variant cover by GARY FRANK
ONE-SHOT | ON SALE 2/23/21
$9.99 US | 80 PAGES | FC | DC
Dispersed through time by the villain Dominus, our ragtag team of generational heroes—featuring 1939 Batman, Kamandi, Superboy, Steel, Starfire, Sinestro, Booster Gold, and Dr. Light—must find a way to restore the timeline…and what they ultimately discover is something far, far greater. You’ll have to read it to believe it as time dies…and generations rise!



WONDER WOMAN EARTH ONE VOL. 3 HC
written by GRANT MORRISON
art and cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
ON SALE 3/9/21
$29.99 US | 136 PAGES | FC | DC
HARDCOVER
ISBN: 978-1-77950-207-0
The epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling original graphic novel series from the critically acclaimed superstar duo of writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette is here!
Diana, now queen of the Amazons, must assemble the disparate Amazonian tribes for the first time in a millennium. Maxwell Lord’s assault on Paradise Island with his destructive A.R.E.S. armor is on the horizon, and in order to weather the war that is coming, Wonder Woman will need the full might of her sisters by her side! Can Diana finally bring her message of peace to Man’s World, or will Max Lord’s war burn the world and the Amazons to ashes?
Continuing the tradition of the critically acclaimed Earth One tales that challenge the status quo of DC’s greatest heroes, Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 3 is Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s final installment of this visionary graphic novel series.



THE GREEN LANTERN SEASON TWO #11
written by GRANT MORRISON
art and cover by LIAM SHARP
variant cover by PHIL JIMENEZ
ON SALE 2/9/21
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | 11 of 12 | FC | DC
Hal Jordan’s future as a Green Lantern is threatened when the Young Guardians’ plans to restructure the Corps move into high gear. What’s a guy to do but take a vacation? But when Jordan arrives on the swords-and-sorcery world of Athmoora for some R&R, he comes face to face with the biggest threat the universe has ever known—and a coalition of foes determined to bring his career and his story to its apocalyptic end! You cannot miss the game-changing two-part finale of Morrison and Sharp’s epic run...

Comments

[thanekos]

Andrew Wheeler and Crystal Frasier credits on that DC Valentine's Day one-shot.

Cool.

[scorntx]

Not a lot in that Future State stuff that sounds terribly appealing, frankly.

Oh, look. A "Wally West suffers" story. And after all that Death Metal saying we weren't going to have any more of that for realsies.
*angry sigh*


And that Generations one-shot... really feels like they just grabbed whoever was sitting around the offices to write it.
(And of course, it's got Kamandi. Gotta have your Kamandi in any time-travel story. Pretty sure it's obligatory.)

[silverhammerman]

The Flash story sounds so disappointing and bog-standard, especially coming on the heels of the Speed Metal tie-in doing yet another DC mea culpa about how they've handled Wally West and the Flash as a whole poorly.

Moreover, it especially sucks that both Suicide Squad and Justice League have cool new Flashes, one who's disabled and one who's non-binary respectively, but neither of them is the subject of the Flash series.

[scorntx]

Par for the course with DC and Wally. (And the Flash in general.)

It would've been nice if the illusion that things would be different this time had lasted more than five minutes.

[silverhammerman]

I'm a little embarrassed by how into the Future State stuff I am, but one thing that strikes me as weird is how seemingly inconsistent the timeframe is. It's nominally 14 years or so in the future, which isn't a terribly long time, but some characters (like Clark Kent/Superman or Barry Allen) seem to have aged significantly, while others (Nightwing, Harley Quinn, Catwoman) don't seem to have changed at all.

All of the Batbooks dealing with the Magistrate's oppressive regime is interesting, but it seems like it's really a half-step towards the anti-establishment story that should be happening here. I find something so dreadfully uncool about these sorts of cyberpunk-ish stories which want to do "heroes vs dystopian establishment" but insist on bolting a fictional oppressive structure overtop of the real world.

The text for the Grifters backup story in Dark Detective #3 seems to suggest that the new Batman might not be Luke Fox after all, since Fox is set to appear in Grifters. Interesting wrinkle. On the subject of backups, I'm a little put off by how scattered they are. The Next Batman #3 has Outsiders and Arkham Knights (sidenote: how weird is it that DC is still trying to hang some working concept on Arkham Knight(s) to capitalize on a game that came out five years ago now?) work as backups, but #4 has Batgirls and Red Hood. I'd rather just have one-shots with the stories I'm interested in than read the stories carved into backups across non-consecutive issues.

Across the board this mini-event really seems to highlight which parts of the the DCU take priority and which get books as a matter of course. Teen Titans and Flash both seem like they're just here because DC's committed to putting out books with those titles. Meanwhile the Batbooks have a consistent direction and mythology.

I've made my distaste for Murphy's White Knight stuff clear, but I'm so morbidly curious about the glimpse of his Red Hood on that Harley Quinn cover. I'm desperate to see what he does with Jason Todd as a troop-cop Batman successor given the pro-cop politics of White Knight.

[lucean]

As I'm assuming the new Batman is African-American, I just keep praying it's not Luke Fucking Fox.

By the way, can someone explain to me the Future State will tie in to status quo. Is it a reboot and then the stories just go from there? Is there no present? What is it, essentially?

[bradygirl_12]

Gotta say, Hal looks cool.