DC Comics have announced “DCeased: War of the Undead Gods,” which will mark the final series in writer Tom Taylor and artist Trevor Hairsine’s post-apocalyptic vision of the DC Universe. The eight-part series, starting Tuesday, August 9, will pick up from “DCeased: Dead Planet,” when the undead Darkseid was reawakened. “As the Anti-Life Equation spreads into the cosmos, the survivors of Earth prepare for the coming apocalypse and realize their only hope could lie in the most powerful surviving hero from the first DCeased series.”
Taylor and Hairsine began “DCeased” with an eponymous six-issue series in 2019, before continuing with “Dead Planet” the following year. The saga sees the world’s greatest heroes becoming the zombified Anti-Living, after the Anti-Life Equation manifests as a techno-organic virus, and their successors — including Jon Kent (Superman), Damian Wayne (Batman) and Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Woman) — being forced to settle on a New Earth. Taylor has also penned various tie-in books, including the miniseries “DCeased: Unkillables” and “Hope at World’s End,” between the two prior main installments.
As well as Hairsine’s art, covers for the series will feature a card stock homage to Jim Lee’s “X-Men” #1 by Dan Mora; an acetate variant by Kael Ngu; a 1-in-25 ratio “horror” variant by Francesco Mattina; a 1-in-50 ratio variant by Sun Khamunaki; and a 1-in-100 card stock “virgin” homage variant of Mora’s covers. You can check out Hairsine’s cover for issue #1, and Mora’s interconnecting variants for the first four issues, below.
