In addition to the bevy of news DC’s Villains Month brought us, today we’ve learned of some additional titles to be released that month from Newsarama, IGN, Zap2It, iFanboy, Hero Complex, Nerdist and Maxim respectively.
So in addition to regular books and a ton of new, extra Batman books for you, the Superman, Flash and Aquaman worlds will be expanding with the following:
The Flash
- “Grodd” by Brian Buccellato and Chris Batista
- “Reverse-Flash” by Bucellato and Francis Manapul
- “The Rogues” by Bucellato and Patrick Zircher
Superman
- “Bizarro” by Sholly Fisch, Jeff Johnson and Andy Smith
- “Braniac” by Tony Bedard and Pascal Alixe
- “He’l” by Scott Lobdell, Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapbum
- “Parasite” by Aaron Kuder
Action Comics
- “Cyborg Superman” by Michael Alan Nelson and Mike Hawthorne
- “General Zod” by Greg Pak and Ken Lashley
- “Lex Luthor” by Charles Soule and TBD (Yes, really)
- “Metallo” by Sholly Fisch and Will Conrad
Aquaman
- “Black Manta” by Geoff Johns, Tony Bedard and Claude St. Aubin
- “Ocean Master” by Geoff Johns, Tony Bedard and Geraldo Borges
Justice League
- “Darkseid” by Greg Pak and Paulo Siqueria
- “Lobo” by Marguerite Bennett and Ben Oliver
- “Dial E” by China Mieville and 20 artists including Mateus Santolouco, Jock, Jeff Lemire and David Lapham
- “Secret Society” by Geoff Johns, Manuel Garcia and Rob Hunter
Earth-2
- “Desaad” by Paul Levitz and Yildiray Cinar
- “Solomon Grundy” by Matt Kindt and Aaron Lopresti
Other
- “Arcane” by Charles Soule
This is, of course, in addition to 16 Batman titles announced, including but assuredly not limited to:
Detective Comics (originally from Crave Online)
- “Poison Ivy” by Derek Fridolfs and Javier Pina
- “Harley Quinn” by Matt Kindt and Neil Googe
- “The Scarecrow” by Peter Tomasi and Szymon Kudranski
- “Man-Bat” by Frank Tieri, Scot Eaton and Jaime Mendoza
Batman (originally from CBR)
- “Joker” by Andy Kubert
- “Riddler” by Scott Snyder, Ray Fawkes and Jeremy Haun
- “Penguin” by Frank Tieri and Christian Duce
- “Bane” by Tomasi and Graham Nolan
The Dark Knight (originally from the Source)
- “The Ventriloquist” by Gail Simone and Derlis Santacruz
- “Mr. Freeze” by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Jason Masters
- “Clayface” by John Layman and Cliff Richards
- “The Joker’s Daughter” by Ann Nocenti and Georges Jeanty
Batman and Robin (originally from Parallel Worlds)
- “Two-Face” by Tomasi and Guillem March
- “The Court of Owls” by James Tynion IV and Jorge Lucas
- “Ra’s al Ghul and the League of Shadows” by Tynion and Lucas
- “Killer Croc” by Tim Seeley and Francis Portela
And a spattering of other titles, some of which were announced yesterday:
- “Green Lantern” will be replaced by “Relic”
- “Justice League of America” will be replaced by “Deadshot”
- “Justice League Dark” will be replaced by “The Creeper”
- “Green Arrow” will be replaced by “Count Vertigo”
- “Wonder Woman” will be replaced by “First Born”
Putting us up to 41 titles right now. You can probably expect some more Green Lantern books among others to push DC up to their favorite number.
Look for these and more in September, and we’ll be updating with more announcements as the day goes by should they arrive.
