DC Comics have announced the newest addition to their Digital First lineup: a fourteen-part series, “DCeased: Hope at World’s End,” by writer Tom Taylor and artists Dustin Nguyen, Renato Guedes, Carmine Di Giandomenico, and Marco Failla. Ben Oliver, Francesco Mattina and Yasmine Putri will be providing the cover art for the series.
“DCeased” told the story of the World’s Finest fighting against zombie-like creatures, and in issue #5, there was a time jump that skipped multiple weeks. “DCeased: Hope at World’s End” will tell the story of those skipped weeks and see Superman, Wonder Woman, and more, fighting against the infection in the aftermath of the fall of Metropolis. In a statement, Taylor directly addressed Super Sons fans, saying that they “won’t want to miss the apocalyptic adventures of Damian and Jon as they stand up to the worst crisis the Earth has ever seen, and take their first steps on the road to becoming the next World’s Finest.”
Speaking more widely about the spin-off series, Taylor said “There was a point in ‘DCeased’ where we had to make the decision to skip weeks of losses and triumphs and heroism or our first miniseries wouldn’t exactly be a miniseries. But we knew we had a larger story to tell, so we seeded plots we could expand on and deliberately left huge characters off the table for the future. That future is here.”
“DCeased: Hope at World’s End” is the second spin-off series in the “DCeased” continuity, following “DCeased: Unkillables,” which concluded today, May 19. A sequel to the original miniseries, “DCeased: Dead Planet,” is scheduled to start in June.
“DCeased: Hope at World’s End” will be released twice a month. Issue #1 by Tom Taylor, Dustin Nguyen, colorist Rex Lokus, and letterer Saida Temofonte, is available now. The full cover gallery for issue #1, its preview artwork, and the full press release are as follows.
DC Announces DCeased: Hope at World’s End
Tom Taylor’s Epic Becomes the Newest Addition to DC’s DIGITAL FIRST Catalog!
In the Earth’s darkest hour, heroes will bring hope!DCeased, 2019’s blockbuster series, makes its DC DIGITAL FIRST debut with new original stories set before the fall of Earth! Fan-favorite Injustice: Gods Among Us writer Tom Taylor’s epic DCeased story line continues on May 19 with DCeased: Hope at World’s End with art by Dustin Nguyen, Renato Guedes, Carmine Di Giandomenico and Marco Failla! Set in the span of DCeased #5’s time jump, DCeased: Hope at World’s End will expand the story of the Anti-Life War, featuring Superman and Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Stephanie Brown, Wally West, Jimmy Olsen, and more.
“There was a point in DCeased where we had to make the decision to skip weeks of losses and triumphs and heroism or our first miniseries wouldn’t exactly be a miniseries,” said Taylor. “But we knew we had a larger story to tell, so we seeded plots we could expand on and deliberately left huge characters off the table for the future. That future is here.”
This new DC DIGITAL FIRST series, in addition to DCeased and DCeased: Unkillables, will pave the way to the launch of DCeased’s sequel, DCeased: Dead Planet, in July 2020. By adding DCeased: Hope at World’s End to DC’s robust digital publishing program, comic book readers will have even more variety of content and immediate access to stories that have never been available on digital platforms.
In DCeased: Hope at World’s End, the Anti-Life Equation has infected over a billion people on Earth. Heroes and villains have fallen. In the immediate aftermath of the destruction of Metropolis, Superman and Wonder Woman spearhead an effort to stem the tide of infection, preserve and protect survivors, and plan for what’s next. In the Earth’s darkest hour heroes will bring hope! The war for Earth has only just begun!
“With Hope at World’s End, we finally get to tell the tale of what Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Black Adam, Wink, the Aerie, Martian Manhunter, Black Manta, Steph Brown, Robin, Superboy and more did to save as much of humanity as they could,” continued Taylor. “And Super Sons fans won’t want to miss the apocalyptic adventures of Damian and Jon as they stand up to the worst crisis the Earth has ever seen, and take their first steps on the road to becoming the next World’s Finest.”
DCeased: Hope at World’s End, written by Tom Taylor with art by Dustin Nguyen, Renato Guedes, Carmine Di Giandomenico and Marco Failla, will publish digitally twice a month through its fourteen-chapter run beginning Tuesday May 19, 2020. Cover art will be by Ben Oliver, Francesco Mattina and Yasmine Putri.
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