Announced today over at DC’s Source blog, three new creative change ups for the DCnU were revealed.
For starters, Jeff Lemire will be taking over Justice League Dark with issue #9. As he notes on the Source, Lemire plans to bring more connections between this team and the “main” Justice League, as well as move the team to a new headquarters and appoint Constantine as the official team leader. In addition to that, Lemire will be introducing two new characters to the book, as well as re-imagining a classic villain for the New 52. Mikal Janin will stay on for art details.
Former Justice League Dark writer Peter Milligan will in turn take over Stormwatch with issue #9. On the Source blog, Milligan notes that he plans to tie the book with his other title, Red Lantern Corps, as well as explore the secret history of Stormwatch and bring the Shadow Lords to the book. No word on the artist yet.
As a final and quite exciting announcement, Matt Kindt will be taking over for Jeff Lemire on Frankenstein: Agent of SHADE with issue #10. This will be Kindts first DC ongoing, having written part of My Greatest Adventure. Kindts plans includes Frankenstein in a relationship with someone (assumedly not his Bride), more with the Mummy, and the intricacies of SHADE. Kindt describes it as “Steranko meets Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy“, which is a pretty fantastic sell, all things considered. Alberto Ponticelli is staying on board as artist.
Also of note, DC mentioned that Kindt and Lemire have collaborated for the final issue of Men of War (on sale April 4), which will have somewhat of a tie-in to Kindt’s plans for Frankenstein (with the inclusion of GI Robot), with Tom Derenick on board as artist.
