Yesterday followers in attendance of yesterday’s Absolute Energy panel type DC Comics at San Diego Comedian-Con have been handled to some thrilling information and developments. Among the many reveal highlights was the announcement of Justice League Limitless, a brand new sequence from author Mark Waid and artist Dan Mora launching on November twenty seventh. As comedian readers are effectively conscious, within the wake of Darkish Disaster, the Justice League disbanded. It was solely a matter of time earlier than the premiere super-team returned.
The opposite main information introduced through the panel was the subsequent title in DC’s “Absolute” universe, Absolute Flash from author Jeff Lemire and artist Nick Robles debuting in March 2025.
Official press launch recapping the opposite information from the Absolute Energy panel
In a dialogue led by DC group editor Paul Kaminski, Mark Waid, Nicole Maines, and Joshua Williamson spoke to a variety of subjects. Because the architect of Absolute Energy, Waid spoke to the challenges and alternatives of planning an occasion of this magnitude and mapping out the connecting DC core titles and help sequence like Absolute Energy: Origins and Absolute Energy: Process Power VII that bolstered the scope of Absolute Energy and its affect on the DC Universe.
Maines, who has portrayed the DC Tremendous Hero Dreamer on tv, in addition to written the character in DC’s core comics line and a younger grownup graphic novel (Dangerous Dream: A Dreamer Story), spoke intimately about Dreamer’s evolution, Maines’s ardour for Superman (Jon Kent), and what followers can count on from her and co-writer Sina Grace within the upcoming Absolute Energy: Tremendous Son tie-in one-shot. And present Superman author Williamson talked about working with Mark Waid in connecting his Home of Brainiac story arc in Superman and Motion Comics to Absolute Energy.
Within the wake of DC’s announcement of DC All In, the dialog with Williamson turned to the affect of Absolute Energy on Superman in October. The viewers was handled to some teases as to what’s in retailer for the Man of Metal, together with the return of Doomsday—certainly one of Williamson’s favourite DC Tremendous-Villains—and a brand new Superwoman. However the author’s largest shock was the announcement that one other fan-favorite artist might be becoming a member of him on the title, confirming that Absolute Energy artist Dan Mora will exchange Jamal Campbell as sequence artist starting with Superman #19 in October.
As Absolute Energy units the desk for DC All In, Williamson remained on stage because the panel shifted gears to speak extra about this new establishment as award-winning author Scott Snyder, Absolute Superman author Jason Aaron, and Absolute Surprise Lady artist Hayden Sherman changed Waid and Maines on the dais and DC government editor Chris Conroy stepped in to information the dialogue. Conroy spoke with Snyder and Williamson about how the October 2 DC All In Particular #1 not solely connects to Absolute Energy however makes use of its particular flipbook format to set the stage for each the modifications to DC’s core line and the creation of the “Absolute” universe of titles, and the way Darkseid offers the connective tissue to each. Snyder additionally supplied some added teases about his plans for Absolute Batman with sequence artist Nick Dragotta.
Artist Hayden Sherman spoke enthusiastically about making his DC sequence debut with Kelly Thompson on Absolute Surprise Lady and supplied some tantalizing hints concerning what the 2 of them have in retailer for readers when the debut difficulty arrives on October 23.
Jason Aaron isn’t any stranger to Superman, having written him in Motion Comics as a part of DC’s Superman Superstars initiative, and he spoke of his pleasure over having Rafa Sandoval as sequence artist and teased early particulars concerning the debut story arc, creating a number of anticipation among the many viewers for when Absolute Superman launches on November 6.
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