Batman Beyond returns to DC Comics next week.
Bruce Wayne is dead. Batman Beyond: Neo-Year picks up after the events of Batman: Urban Legends #7, where Terry McGinnis’ mentor died after a super-intelligence digitally wormed its way into Bruce’s pacemaker, the Batcomputer and all of Neo-Gotham’s online infrastructure. Now, after blowing up the Batcave and Wayne Manor, Terry is fighting against the city itself, who “will do everything in its power to destroy Terry,” according to solicitations. The new title kicks off alongside other releases hitting comic shop shelves and digital platforms on Tuesday.
Keeping with the Bat theme, The CW’s tie-in series to the Arrowverse begins with Earth-Prime #1: Batwoman. The title will last for six issues total with the first focusing on actor Javicia Leslie’s Ryan Wilder, who has served as the Arrowverse’s main caped crusader since Season 2 of the Batwoman show. Luke Fox actor Camrus Johnson and Batwoman screenwriters Natalie Abrams and Kelly Larson will pen the premiere issue, with artists Clayton Henry and Kim Jacinto contributing to interior and cover art, respectively.
Other notable mentions for next week’s releases include Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #2 and the penultimate issues for One-Star Squadron, Suicide Squad and World of Krypton. Also, Batman #122 will not only serve as the second part in the “Shadow War” event, but will reveal the very first fight between Batman and Deathstroke. The full list of releases can be found alphabetically below, covers and solicitations included.
BATMAN #122
- “SHADOW WAR PART 2”
- Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
- Art and cover by HOWARD PORTER
- Backup art by TREVOR HAIRSINE
- Variant cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
- Linking 1:25 variant cover by ROGER CRUZ and VICTOR OLAZABA
- 1:50 variant cover by JOCK
- $4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- Ra’s al Ghul is dead, and Talia is out for revenge! Batman is on the case to find Deathstroke before Talia’s elite killers do! But Batman starts to piece together that not everything is what it seems in Ra’s’s death…and knows whom he must interrogate to get answers…Talia herself! Can the two former lovers ever work together again? Plus, a backup tale showing the secret first fight between Batman and Deathstroke!
BATMAN BEYOND: NEO-YEAR #1
- Written by COLLIN KELLY and JACKSON LANZING
- Art and cover by MAX DUNBAR
- Variant cover by CHRISTIAN WARD
- 1:25 variant cover by SIMONE DI MEO
- 1:100 variant cover by JIM CHEUNG
- $3.99 US | 32 pages | 1 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- Neo-Gotham is alive and has killed Bruce Wayne. It’s rejected Terry McGinnis as Batman and offered him the chance to escape. Terry turned it down—he is the city’s protector, and he will uphold the legacy of Batman. Now Neo-Gotham will do everything in its power to destroy Terry, including creating brand-new villains to fight him. Terry’s first year without Bruce Wayne begins…does he have a fighting chance? From the rising-star creative team of Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (Kang the Conqueror) and Max Dunbar (Batman: Urban Legends, Robin), a new future for Batman Beyond has begun!
BATMAN: KILLING TIME #2
- Written by TOM KING
- Art and cover by DAVID MARQUEZ
- Variant cover by KAEL NGU
- 1:25 variant cover by BEN OLIVER
- $4.99 US | 40 pages | 2 of 6 | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- The epic continues, and blood will spill. Catwoman and the Riddler have pulled off the perfect crime and are now in possession of the most valuable object in the DCU. But how long can they hold on to it with not only Batman on their tail, but also a terrifying new villain known simply as the Help?
EARTH-PRIME #1: BATWOMAN
- Written by NATALIE ABRAMS, KELLY LARSON, and CAMRUS JOHNSON
- Art by CLAYTON HENRY
- Cover by KIM JACINTO
- Photo variant cover
- $5.99 US | 48 pages | 1 of 6 | Variant $6.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- Spinning out of the hit CW shows, Earth-Prime continues the adventures of your favorite heroes from the small screen. While each issue focuses on a different Arrowverse series, a threat lurks in the background, out to finally bring these heroes to their knees!
- Ever since the tech that created many of Batman’s rogues hit the streets, Ryan Wilder has been running herself ragged trying to contain the new villains popping up around Gotham City. But when Clayface’s mud binds itself to a local high schooler, Batwoman will need help from an unexpected source in order to contain this muddy foe! Also, follow how Luke Fox balances his life as a superhero and a boyfriend!
MONKEY PRINCE #3
- Written by GENE LUEN YANG 楊謹倫
- Art and cover by BERNARD CHANG 張伯納
- Variant cover by INHYUK LEE 이인혁
- 1:25 variant cover by KIM JACINTO
- $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- The bat’s out of the bag as Monkey Prince and Pigsy both realize what all the demon spirits around the world are after—eating specific superheroes in order to gain their powers! And this penguin demon has his eyes on…Batman! Uh-oh, Monkey Prince, it’s bad enough you have to keep hiding your tail when you’re Marcus, and how your circlet keeps returning latched onto your body as something else every time you try to get rid of it—but now cannibalism is also on the menu? YEOW!
ONE-STAR SQUADRON #5
- Written by MARK RUSSELL
- Art and cover by STEVE LIEBER
- $3.99 US | 32 pages | 5 of 6
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- After an unfortunate accident at Heroz4U headquarters, all the employees are under investigation for the moment it all went up in flames! Now Red Tornado has stepped forward, ready to tell the truth. Could one of our heroes actually be a villain in disguise?
SUICIDE SQUAD #14
- Written by DENNIS HOPELESS
- Art by EDUARDO PANSICA, JULIO FERREIRA, and DEXTER SOY
- Cover by EDUARDO PANSICA
- Variant cover by DEXTER SOY
- $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- The War for Earth-3 may be over, but the battle at home is only heating up! As egos clash, bugs ambush, and a big-#$% parademon tries to eat his own teammates, an explosive confrontation between Peacemaker and Bloodsport will leave you breathless! As Ambush Bug would say: “HELP! I’M TRAPPED IN SOLICIT COPY!”
WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA: THE AMAZONS #2
- Written by KELLY SUE DeCONNICK
- Art and cover by GENE HA
- Variant cover by BECKY CLOONAN
- $7.99 US | 72 pages | 2 of 3
- Prestige Plus | 8 1/2″ x 10 7/8″
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- The second installment of the jaw-droppingly ambitious history of the Amazons finds their future queen, Hippolyta, cutting a swath through the world of men, desperate to be reunited with the astonishing women who saved her life…but unfortunately for her, they’re hard folk to find. Perhaps it is the will of the Goddesses that they cross paths again…but before that moment, Hippolyta will gather to herself a tribe of her very own—and find that the hearts of all women do not necessarily burn with a flame as righteous as her own…
WORLD OF KRYPTON #5
- Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
- Art by MICHAEL AVON OEMING
- Cover by MICO SUAYAN
- Variant cover by MARGUERITE SAUVAGE
- $3.99 US | 32 pages | 5 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 4/5/22
- As Kryptonians suffer the effects of the planet’s deterioration, they lose faith in their leaders. But taking to the streets in protest puts them in Zod’s crosshairs. With his own people as his enemy, will he curb his brutality? Meanwhile, Jor-El is distracted by matters of a more personal nature!
All of these issues go on sale April 5 from DC Comics.
Source: DC Comics
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