From Newsarama Via IGN and The Nerdist, DC Comics has revealed the third week of ten April-May 2015 limited series that make up their Convergence event. Each week in April, 10 of the two-issue mini-series will debut, running for two months and taking the place of the full lineup of DC Comics for April and May 2015. Those will run concurrently with a weekly mini-series that tells the heart of the Convergence story. Week three keeps the nostalgia theme going - after week one brought us Cassandra Cain, Wally West married with children, Stephanie Brown Batgirl and Renee Montoya Question, and week two brought us 90s versions of Superboy, Green Arrow (Connor Hawke), and the Kingdom Come lineup of characters. It also continues the theme of bringing some creators either long-dormant or new to DC to take on their characters. Marv Wolfman has two books in week three, but the most notable is an all-classic New Teen Titans lineup. Yes, that includes Donna Troy, one of the last real holdouts for the New 52, plus disco outfit Nightwing and more. The book will be drawn by Nicola Scott, Marc Deering, and Jeromy Cox, and features the team facing the Tangent Universe Doom Patrol. Indeed, that’s the theme of the week. Week one is (Pre-New 52) 2000s characters taking on Flashpoint. Week two is 90s characters versus Kingdom Come. Week three? 80s characters versus Tangent. Sensing a theme yet? Amongst the other notables, Josh Middleton does interior art for the first time in years, teaming up with Larry Hama on the Wonder Woman twofer - they’re bucking the Tangent trend, instead fighting “Red Rain” vampires. Carlos D’Anda, character and concept artist for the Batman: Arkham series of video games, provides pencils on Batman and the Outsiders written by Marc Andreyko. David Gallaher and Steve Ellis (with Ande Parks and Hi-Fi) bring their indie and webcomic sensibility to a tale of the Green Lantern Corps featuring an angry (but green-ringed) Guy Gardner. Click here for the full article. GREEN LANTERN CORPS Writer: David Gallaher Artists: Steve Ellis and Ande Parks Colorist: Hi-Fi Say the Oath, save the world! If only being the Green Lantern Corps was that easy. Hal has resigned, John is busy, and Guy is pissed. Together for the first time—they’ll save Gotham or die trying.
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GREEN LANTERN/PARALLAX
(Writer: Tony Bedard; Artist: Ron Wagner and Bill Reinhold, with color by Paul Mounts) Rookie Green Lantern Kyle Rayner gears up to battle invaders, but is he ready to fight Hal Jordan, also known as Parallax? EARTH 2: WORLD’S END #18 Written by DANIEL H. WILSON, MARGUERITE BENNETT and MIKE JOHNSON Art by JACK HERBERT, ROBSON ROCHA, PAULO SIQUEIRA and JORGE JIMENEZ Cover by GUILLEM MARCH On sale FEBRUARY 4 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T As Apokolips burns, Green Lantern falls – and the Earth is left unprotected. EARTH 2: WORLD’S END #19 Written by DANIEL H. WILSON, MARGUERITE BENNETT and MIKE JOHNSON Art by TYLER KIRKHAM, EDDY BARROWS, EDUARDO PANSICA and JORGE JIMENEZ Cover by GUILLEM MARCH On sale FEBRUARY 11 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T Superman and Power Girl team up to turn the tide in the fight with Darkseid’s Furies. EARTH 2: WORLD’S END #20 Written by DANIEL H. WILSON, MARGUERITE BENNETT and MIKE JOHNSON Art by JACK HERBERT, ROBSON ROCHA, EDUARDO PANSICA and JORGE JIMENEZ Cover by GUILLEM MARCH On sale FEBRUARY 18 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T Apokolips’s plans for Earth-2 are finally revealed, leaving the heroes in shock! EARTH 2: WORLD’S END #21 Written by DANIEL H. WILSON, MARGUERITE BENNETT and MIKE JOHNSON Art by TYLER KIRKHAM, EDDY BARROWS, PAULO SIQUEIRA and JORGE JIMENEZ Cover by ANDY KUBERT On sale FEBRUARY 25 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T Does Oliver Queen hold the answers to saving Earth-2? From USAToday For 2015's annual "big event,'' DC Comics is mashing up stories and characters from 80 years of comic-book history while also introducing a big bad villain. The company is putting its line of superhero comic books on hiatus for two months for Convergence, a nine-week miniseries kicking off with a zero issue April 1. The story line will spill into 40 two-part miniseries in April and May featuring a variety of writers and artists examining the worlds of the DC Universe over the decades, as well as the heroes and villains contained within. "It captures the full essence and scope of DC's incredible history and storytelling," says co-publisher Dan DiDio. "There is a story and a character for every generation of DC Comics fan." Convergence spins out of the April 1 finales of the Earth 2: World's End and The New 52: Futures End weekly series. The alien supervillain Brainiac has trapped cities from various timelines and planets that have ended, brought them in domes to a planet outside of time and space, and is now opening them for a great experiment to see what happens when all these folks meet. "We're picking up at points of their lives where we left them and finding out what's gone on with them since then," says DiDio. One of the hallmarks of DC has been the popularization of a "multiverse" of parallel worlds of familiar characters, and that has led to story lines such as the 1985 crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths and this year's The Multiversity by writer Grant Morrison. Since DC rebooted its entire superhero line as part of "The New 52" relaunch in 2011, fans have wondered if certain key moments in DC lore — the death of Superman, Bane breaking Batman's back, etc. — still "counted" in continuity, says co-publisher Jim Lee. And there's the fact that people have also queried them about what happened to certain favorite characters and teams such as Donna Troy, Blue Beetle and the Justice Society of America, and why they haven't been reintroduced while others have. "What we're really addressing is they all exist and have existed and exist within the framework of the New 52," Lee explains. "Convergence is in many ways the most meta epic event we've done." Following in the footsteps of Brainiac is Telos, a new bad guy being introduced in Convergence. Named after the Greek philosophical term for ''end'' or ''goal,'' he is born of Brainiac and this mysterious planet — even taking on traits of that world — "but becomes a character unto himself," says DiDio. The event also marks the comic debut of writer Jeff King, who's handling the scripting and storytelling for the main Convergence plot line. (Dan Jurgens of Futures End is co-writing the zero issue with him, while former Superman scribe Scott Lobdell is helping to lay out the overall outline of the story.) King, the executive producer and head writer of USA's White Collar TV series, has a background in science fiction with his work on the shows Stargate SG-1 and Continuum. "Because this involved so much deep lore and fiction from DC Comics, it was great to have someone come in with a fresh set of eyes to look at it and make sure that it's as open and accessible to all fans," DiDio says. "Not just the people who have been reading DC throughout the years." Update: DC Comics has released the full promo pic below revealing more "Earths". |
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