DC Came to NYCC With Absolute Reveals and Some Big Returns

gravid events like New York Comic - Con give publishers a good reason to tee up some forthcoming comic strip and big events to arrive throughout the next twelvemonth . Marvel already revealed their 2025 lineup will let in Doctor Doom harness the major planet and an all - new Ultimate Wolverine , but what ’s go on with DC ? We break down five of the bountiful announcement to come from the publisher , which admit fresh fresh stories and several returning fan - favorites .

Peacemaker is dipping into comics

Max’sPeacemakeris currently look to come back forseason twosometime next year . To surge you over until then , DC is eject the show ’s first - ever comic book spinoff , Peacemaker Presents : The Vigilante / Eagly Double Feature ! . Tim Seely ( Money Shot ) and Mitch Gerads ( Mister Miracle ) will tackle the Vigilante story , while Rex Ogle and Matteo Lolli handle Eagly ’s tales . Set between the show ’s two season , the Vigilante stories will see the goofy antihero charge his way through the condemnable community found on the assumption that something sorry ’s happened to Peacemaker and Eagly when they ’re not home . In Eagly ’s story , we find out he and Peacemaker are on a “ bromantic ” trip to Alaska they forget to secernate Vigilante about , but things take a turn for the worse when their escape is hijacked by supervillains looking to hunt them and the other passengers for sport .

The five - issueVigilante / Eagly Double Feature!kicks off sometime next class .

The Justice League will fight Godzilla fighting King Kong again

It was only last yr that DC ’s mightiest heroes were caught in the centre of a clash betweenGodzilla and King Kong . derive 2025 , they ’ll be back to do the kaiju dance again inJustice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong 2 . Once again by Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce , the sequel sees the League hops over to the MonsterVerse when they read some of their villains ( Lex , Cheetah , and Harley , to name a few ) have decided to try and weaponize Titans like Ghidorah and Rodan . you could guess how that ’ll go , but hey , Wonder Woman or Batman tease on Mothra certain will be a sight to behold when the book land in 2025 .

The Absolute universe is preparing to get bigger

Break out the Chocos ! Announcing Absolute Martian Manhunter serial by@DenizCampand@javiercaster ! come March 2025pic.twitter.com/4gsXeXcBu7

— DC ( @DCOfficial)October 18 , 2024

Last calendar week , DC ’s fresh Absolute line of comics kicked off with Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’sAbsolute Batman . Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman’sAbsolute Wonder Womanlaunches later this hebdomad , and Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval’sAbsolute Supermanarrives in November , but there’smore storieson the horizon : wave two of the line will featureAbsolute Flashfrom Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles , Absolute Green Lanternby Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay , and the newly announcedAbsolute Martian Manhunterfrom Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez .

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Camp , author of20th Century MenandThe Ultimates , describedManhunteras “ the most radicalAbsolutereinvention so far . ” Thebookcenters on FBI broker John Jones , who has his thinker repeatedly invaded by an foreign cognisance that just uses “ Martian ” as a shorthand to describe himself . This is a psychological revulsion chronicle , and John will “ lento go mad , but in a really fun sort of way . The leger is about a concluded foreigner ’s view on the man combined with a ended insider ’s sight of the worldly concern . ”

As forAbsolute FlashandGreen Lantern , DC revealed some prowess from their respective books . The former star a teen Wally West going up against classic rascal like Captains Cold and Boomerang , while the latter is an ensemble piece featuring Jo Mullein , John Stewart , and Hal Jordan . All threeAbsolutebooks will release in 2025 . Also on the agenda for 2025 is some kind of crossover between theAbsoluteand prime DC universes : at the con , Snyderteased a “ grownup , fun event ” next fall that “ brings a lot of this stuff together . ”

Absolute Green Lantern # 1 artistic production by Jahnoy Lindsay

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Al Ewing said This will be an ensemble book have Jo , Hal , John and Guy Gardner ! But Hal and Jo Mullein are the primary ones in the book!pic.twitter.com / IGGXYnX0n1

— DCU Updates ( @dcuworld)October 18 , 2024

Somehow, Hush has returned…

At the “ Jim Lee and Friends ” dialog box , the artist give away he and author Jeph Loeb were reteaming on a continuation toBatman : Hush , which introduced Bruce ’s childhood ally Tommy Elliot grow evil lookalike ( and bandaged serial killer ) Hush . A 20th anniversary re - release in 2022 feature a brand unexampled epilog , andHushwas recently adapted into one of DC ’s animated movies , so a sequel feel almost inevitable . The duo will begin their continuation in March 2025 withBatman # 158,seemingly support late rumors that Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez ’s current run would be wrapping ahead of time next yr so the two could take over the main Bat - comic . But before that full stop , there ’ll be a preliminary story in November’sJustice League Unlimited#1to avail set the stage for Batman ’s next saga .

…And so has Vertigo, too

Hush ai n’t the only one make up a comeback . The fan - best-loved Vertigo depression is being revived afterbeing retiredin 2019 , with an emphasis on Godhead - owned projects . ( DC Black Label , which efficaciously existed as its transposition , will on the face of it stick to handling mature takes of the brand’sexisting character . ) The first “ new ” Vertigo book will be a reprint of James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martinez Bueno’sThe Nice House on theLake , with approaching issues of its current sequel seriesThe Nice Houseby the Seato be published under the depression going forward . At the second , this is the only book confirmed for the resurrected Vertigo , and executive editorChris Conroysaid more would be revealed in the coming months , along with some “ surprise from the archives . ”

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