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The Deadman #3 (DC, August 2026) variant cover by Christian Ward
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The Deadman #3 (DC, August 2026) variant cover by Christian Ward
DC maps out an ambitious 2026 with Vertigo’s continued return, major Absolute Universe expansions, a growing DC Next Level slate, and a Goth
Yeah, let's go!
Newly announced titles include Barbara Gordon: Breakout by Mariko Tamaki and Amancay Nahuelpan in May, and The Deadman by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo in June.
DC also previewed additional Next Level projects ahead of formal solicitation, including Legion of Super-Heroes, Doom Patrol, Jonah Hex, The Demon, and Batman: Shadow of the Bat. Creative teams and launch dates will be announced soon. The next major addition to the line is Teen Titans from Kyle Higgins and Daniele Di Nicuolo, launching this summer. In the new series, Red Hood uncovers a network of missing powered teens and joins forces with a new generation of highly capable young heroes to uncover the truth behind a world divided.
DC closed its publishing announcements with a preview of “Bad Seeds,” a Gotham City event arriving in Q3 2026. Police commissioner Vandal Savage has declared war on the Bat-Family and deployed a private paramilitary force across Gotham. Meanwhile, Mayor Pamela Isley prepares a desperate move that could transform the city into a hostile landscape of primeval plant life.
The event unfolds across a single long night in Gotham, placing its heroes under siege while the city teeters on ecological collapse. More information will be shared in the coming months.
I don't know, I feel that resolving the issue of Vandal Savage making the GCPD even more fascist than normal by having Mayor Pam Isley randomly attack Gotham with plants again is kind of a cop-out if that's the case? Kind of like how Gotham Central and the surrounding Bat Books of the pre-Infinite Crisis era spent dozens of issues underlining how the police department in Gotham is systematically corrupt form top to bottom with one character (Renee Montoya) deciding to just quit as there was no way to feasibly fix it...
Only for the One Year Later era of comics to reveal that it was in deed fixed, off panel, by just arresting and firing "all the bad apples" so the OYL era could just have a clean start with Jim Gordon as commissioner again (despite his retiring due to age, poor health after an assassination attempt left him with mobility issues, and not having had time to process his wife getting murdered several years prior) and Harvey Bullock as an active police officer again (despite his having been forced to retire because he facilitated the murder of the corrupt cop that shot Jim in the back, and nearly died in an attempted murder-suicide after mistakenly thinking the Penguin was responsible for a high school bombing case he hadn't been able to solve, which resulted in his getting put in a health hospital for an extended period).
Y'know, just the laziest narrative solution really.
I am looking forward to these new titles though, even if Jason Todd's presence in the Teen Titans book may put me off as I have a low tolerance for him as a character. And Barbara Gordon: Breakout is presumably involving Vandal Savage uncovering her role as Oracle and using that as a pretence to have her arrested, as I speculated a while back.
Martin Morazzo - The Deadman
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges Bataille, The Deadman
The Deadman #4 by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo. Cover by Morazzo. Variant covers by (2) Chris Brunner, (3) Chloe Brailsford and (4) Hayden Sherman. Out in September.
"After last issue's truth-telling trek through the tortuous, torturous terrain of Torment Town, Boston Brand must balance the scales and make his way to that… other place. But this ain't the Heaven you know, man. Prepare yourself for an Elysium like you've never seen 'em , as the Deadman continues to unravel the mystery of the Soul-Eaters … while the Realm of the Living bears the cost! Plus: a brief history of Mr. M!"
The Deadman #1
Plas fans... did we see that Patrick is going to be featured in the next Deadman issue? As an actual supporting character and not just someone in the background who might have a few lines!? I am very excited. Also, the first Deadman issue was just good in general, everybody should give it a read.
The Deadman #1, by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo, arrives June 3. Spinning out of DC K.O., the series finds the balance between life and death thrown into chaos, with souls trapped in a loop of ghostly derangement. Boston Brand must possess the living and the metahuman alike to uncover the source of the disruption before the world slips into spiritual freefall.
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