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Today in Villains Month: MORE Villains and a Galaxy Full of Foes [Updated]

By | June 5th, 2013
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You didn’t think we were done with this stuff, did you? Of course we’re not!

Today in Villains Month news, we’ve got new announcements of books courtesy of Comics Alliance (gee, they came back right in time!), Comic VineMTV GeeHuffington PostGamma Squad and Collider respectively:

Batman/Superman

  • “Doomsday” by Greg Pak and Brett Booth

Teen Titans

  • “Trigon” by Marv Wolfman and Cafu
  • “Deathstroke” by Corey May, Dooma Wendschuh and Robson Rocha

Green Lantern

  • “Relic” by Robert Venditti, Rags Morales and Cam Smith
  • “Mongul” by Jim Starlin and Howard Porter
  • “Black Hand” by Charles Soule and Alberto Ponticelli
  • “Sinestro” by Matt Kindt and Dale Eaglesham

Justice League

  • “Deadshot” by Matt Kindt and Pasqual Ferry
  • “Killer Frost” by Sterling Gates and Derlis Santacruz
  • “Shadow Thief” by Tom DeFalco and Chad Hardin
  • “Black Adam” by Geoff Johns, Sterling Gates and Edgar Salazar

Wonder Woman

  • “Cheetah” by John Ostrander and Victor Ibanez
  • “First Born” by Brian Azzarello and Alex Cal

Justice League Dark

  • “Creeper” by Ann Nocenti and Chriscross
  • “Eclipso” by Dan Didio and Philip Tan

All of this is in addition to the titles we learned yesterday:

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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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 but have not been given official solicits yet:

  • “Green Arrow” will be replaced by “Count Vertigo”

Putting us up to 54 titles now. With that we’ve reached DC’s magic number, though there are rumors that this will be brought up to 56 total. Perhaps Cheetah or (called it!) Catwoman given that they’re on the Finch tease for “Forever Evil” and … hey, isn’t that White Rabbit in the background? It is? Oh, that would just be too funny!

Stay tuned to Multiversity as we continue our updated coverage of this whole big… whatever it is.


Matthew Meylikhov

Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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