Through the Jim Lee & Associates panel at New York Comedian Con final month, DC Comics introduced publishing plans not just for Black Historical past Month Black but additionally Milestone’s thirtieth anniversary. At the moment the writer unveiled the complete DC Black Historical past Month publishing particulars. Spotlighting the heritage of its Black Tremendous Heroes along with celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Milestone Media and the creation of the Dakotaverse, plans embrace a sequence of one-shots, new sequence, collections, and variant covers.
Take a look at the official press launch particulars under:
DC Energy: A Celebration and Milestone Compendium Two—January 31, 2023
Within the custom of different cultural anthologies, such because the Ringo Award-winning DC Satisfaction and DC Pageant of Heroes, DC Pawer: A Celebration showcases tales that includes DC superheroes Inexperienced Lantern (John Stewart), Cyborg, Vixen, Aqualad, Child Flash, Batwing, and others, in tales instructed by a few of comics’ finest Black storytellers — writers Chuck Brown (Black Manta, Bitter Root), Stephanie Williams (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, Trial of the Amazons), and Evan Narcisse (Batman: Gotham Knights – Gilded Metropolis, Marvel’s Rise of the Black Panther, Black Panther Wakanda Atlas), plus artists Valentine De Landro (Black Manta, Future State: Superman: Worlds at Battle), Clayton Henry (Motion Comics, Superman Pink & Blue, Black Lightning: Chilly Lifeless Fingers), and others. The anthology additionally consists of the primary DC work from writers Dorado Fast, Morgan Hampton, and Jordan Clark, all of whom participated within the Milestone Initiative Expertise Improvement Program.
Additionally out there in collaborating comedian e-book retailers, bookstores, and mass-market retailers/e-tailers is Milestone Compendium Two. A should for the hardcore Milestone fan, this 1,300-plus-page softcover assortment includes a dynamic cowl by iconic artist and Milestone cofounder Denys Cowan and presents an unbelievable assortment of the unique tales from the unique Milestone expertise. These tales helped form the muse of the Dakotaverse, inserting Milestone on the forefront of innovation by introducing tales and characters from Black and different various backgrounds to comedian books. This compendium additionally reprints the 1994 Worlds Collide occasion, the place the DC and Dakotaverse characters appeared collectively for the very first time.
Static: Shadows of Dakota and The DC Universe by Dwayne McDuffie—February 7, 2023
The following part of the return of Milestone publishing begins February 7, 2023 with the discharge of Static: Shadows of Dakota. This follow-up to the critically acclaimed Static: Season One options artwork by rising celebrity Nikolas Draper-Ivey, who additionally takes on the function of co-writer with Static: Season One author Vita Ayala. This six-issue restricted sequence is the right jumping-on level for followers who missed the primary sequence—and particularly for followers of the award-winning Static Shock animated sequence, the super-villain Ebon takes middle stage.
The DC Universe by Dwayne McDuffie collects DC tales from this beloved author, who was a each a founding member of Milestone Media and the co-creator of the Static Shock animated sequence. This 280-page collected hardcover options McDuffie-written tales from Motion Comics, The Demon, Impulse, JLA Showcase 80-Web page Big, Batman: Gotham Knights (2002), Sins of Youth: Child Flash/Impulse, and Firestorm: The Nuclear Man.
Icon vs. {Hardware}—February 14, 2023
Eagle-eyed readers who noticed the hints dropped in Icon & Rocket: Season One and Milestones In Historical past knew that it was only a matter of time earlier than two of Milestone’s strongest superheroes could be at odds. This five-issue restricted sequence reunites the Icon & Rocket: Season One writing workforce of Reginald Hudlin and Leon Chills, with artwork by Milestone Media cofounder Denys Cowan. In a search to seek out Icon’s crashed spaceship, {Hardware} finds a device much more helpful, and probably extra harmful: a time machine. This units him on a collision course with Dakota’s powerhouse hero, with the way forward for the Milestone universe hanging within the stability.
Milestone thirtieth Anniversary Particular—February 21, 2023
This 96-page Status format anthology celebrates 30 years of Static, Icon, Rocket, {Hardware}, and the remainder of the characters that made Milestone and the Dakotaverse a real game-changer in comedian books.
There’s something for each Milestone and comedian e-book fan to get pleasure from. The anthology features a feature-length story written by Evan Narcisse wherein the present Milestone superheroes encounter their unique Nineties counterparts by way of the powers of a mysterious character recognized solely as Rift. It additionally options tales written by Chuck Brown, Stephanie Williams, and Nikolas Draper-Ivey, who can be offering artwork for his story wherein Batman Past groups up with an grownup model of Static, plus a variant cowl highlighting the 2 characters. Together with Denys Cowan and different artists, the anthology options artwork from Yasmín Flores Montañez, who additionally participated within the Milestone Initiative Expertise Improvement Program. Cowan supplies the primary cowl to the anthology, an homage to DC’s iconic “Flash of Two Worlds” cowl from 1961’s The Flash #123.
DC Black Historical past Month Variant Covers
Followers can preorder comics from collaborating comedian e-book retailers that characteristic particular variant covers spotlighting iconic DC superheroes (see your native shops for particulars and preordering):
The Flash #792 (Wallace West/Child Flash) by Mateus Manhanini, on sale February 7
I Am Batman #18 (Jace Fox/Tiffany Fox/Batwing) by ChrisCross, on sale February 14
Black Adam #8 (Malik White/Bolt) by Taurin Clarke, on sale February 21
Lazarus Planet Omega #1 (Cyborg) by Edwin Galmon, on sale February 21
Surprise Lady #796 (Nubia), by Taj Tenfold on sale February 21
Motion Comics #1052 (John Henry Irons/Natasha Irons), by Khary Randolph, on sale February 28
