DC Black Label Announces “Catwoman: Lonely City” by Cliff Chiang

DC Comics have announced “Catwoman: Lonely City,” a four-issue Black Label series by writer/artist Cliff Chiang. The series, debuting in October, takes place in a future where Selina Kyle has spent a decade in prison after a massacre that claimed the lives of Batman, the Joker, Nightwing, and Commissioner Gordon. Harvey Dent — who still resembles Two-Face — is now Mayor of Gotham, and the city is patrolled by “Batcops.” Now free, Selina has “her mind on that one last big score: the secrets hidden inside the Batcave! She doesn’t need the money — she just needs to know… who is ‘Orpheus?'”

Chiang wrote, drew, colored, and lettered all four 48-page issues of the series, which marks his first major project since the conclusion of “Paper Girls” in 2019. It is also his first series at DC — where Chiang began his career as an associate editor — since the end of his and Brian Azzarello’s ‘New 52’ Wonder Woman run. Issue #1 of the series will be released on Tuesday, October 19, with a main cover and variant by Chiang, as well as a 1-in-25 “ratio” variant cover by Jock. Like all DC Black Label series, it is intended for readers age 17 and above.

Additionally, DC announced today that Tom King and Greg Smallwood’s Black Label series “The Human Target” will begin on November 2, and run for 12 issues. The series will see bodyguard and master-of-disguise Christopher Chance falling victim to an assassination attempt after he’s hired to pose as Lex Luthor: now he has only 12 days to find out who ordered the hit. Check out the art for that here, and a preview of “Catwoman: Lonely City” here.