>New York, NY and Burbank, CA October 12, 2023 — At New York Comic Con, DC announced the return of its ELSEWORLDS line of comics, revealing upcoming comic book titles Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age, Batman the Barbarian, Green Lantern: Dark, with more to come. Scheduled to publish in 2024, DC’s new ELSEWORLDS lineup will also include sequels to best-selling series Dark Knights of Steel and DC vs. Vampires.
>DC’s original ELSEWORLDS line was established in 1991, with the release of Batman: Holy Terror, by Alan Brennert and Norm Breyfogle. For the next two decades, ELSEWORLDS became the host for new and innovative stories featuring DC Super Heroes in settings outside regular DC comic book continuity. This new direction produced enduring and iconic stories, such as Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones, Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson and Killian Plunkett, Justice League: The Nail, by Alan Davis, and more.
>“Out-of-continuity stories have always been a pillar of DC publishing, granting creators the ability to explore all the wild corners of the DC Universe,” said DC Executive Editor Ben Abernathy. “We’re excited to bring a whole new slate of titles under the ELSEWORLDS banner in 2024, combining some all-new titles from top storytellers, as well as sequels from the current DC line that fit that same out-of-continuity aesthetic.”
>DC’s new ELSEWORLDS lineup will include:
>Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age by Andy Diggle and Leandro Fernandez expands the mysterious and gothic world created by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola beyond the confines of Gotham City, introducing DC’s greatest heroes as they come together for the first time to form a 19th-century Justice League. As they unite against the greatest threat the world has ever known, they will learn their world’s secret Kryptonian history.
>Batman the Barbarian is a brutal and remarkable retelling of Batman’s origin set against a rugged, medieval Earth, written, and drawn by Eisner Award-winner Greg Smallwood (The Human Target).
I'll check it out, I like Smallwood as an artist.
Who the hell are these people?
>Who the hell are these people?
it's tangent green lantern who is pretty different from the normal universe GL(no ring, is magic/horror-based)
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Lantern_(Earth-9)
The creators, dumdum.
ah my mistake
>Tate Brombal
seems to have done some basic image/dark horse horror comics this seems to be his first DC work probably got a connection through James Tynion IV
Ah I can't wait to see how he uses a sword non lethaly in sword and sorcery setting.
>we haven't got a single good Batman idea since Morrison left
such a tragedy
>New York Times best-selling writer Jay Kristoff (Empire of the Vampire, The Aurora Cycle, The Nevernight Chronicle) and artist Tirso Cons make their DC series debut, in Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter.
>In this new series, the snows fall thick, blood runs black, and color itself is only a distant memory. The legendary assassin Deathstroke stalks a frozen wasteland, killing for coin among a nation of ever-warring jarls. But when our murderer for hire finds himself cast in the role of reluctant guardian, will he fight to end the icy curse destroying his land, or be consumed by the sins of his own dark past?
>Inspired by Norse myth and set in Tom Taylor’s ground-breaking world of Dark Knights of Steel, Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter continues the tradition of casting iconic DC characters in a thrilling epic fantasy setting.
>Green Lantern Dark by Tate Brombal and Werther Dell’Edera reimagines the DC Universe as a dark fantasy wasteland where monsters overrun a post-apocalyptic earth. The battle between good and evil ended long ago.
>Now, darkness prevails as humanity struggles to survive on a corrupted planet. Only one hero remains, the one who wields the green flame that can return light to a dark world—The Green Lantern. But she’s been missing for years, and, on the isolated island of New England, the horrors only get worse by the night.
so tangent green lantern is getting a book. wasen't it rumored that she was getting a book for 5G that never materialized?
another look at this elseworld green lantern
she kinda cute
Why is everybody insisting this is Tangent, when she doesn't look that much like her?
Asian with staff and cloak, that seems to be it.
This new character is 100% inspired by Tangent, but I don't see her being that character.
Inspiration? This is a fricking scam to prevent paying people.
>What happens when twin brothers, Seth & Clay Mann, are turned loose in Gotham City?
>They burn it all down.
>Batman: Nightfire sees superstar Clay Mann unleashed in a mind-expanding mystery, beautifully counterbalanced with explosive action, in this unflinching reimagining that sees Bruce Wayne try to rectify a devastating tragedy by traveling to the past.
>What secrets does this Batman hold so tight that he would watch Gotham be reduced to ashes? What truths are exposed when there is nowhere left to hide? Batman: Nightfire by Clay and Seth Mann is a story of obligation and the ultimate burden that promises to set the Batman world ablaze!
>DC vs. Vampires was the brutal first chapter in a larger war for the fate of Earth! In this upcoming sequel by Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt, sunlight is restored to the Earth, but was it too late? As a new Ice Age dawns, humanity faces their most deadly threat yet—Barbara Gordon Queen of the Vampires!
>Look for more information about DC’s ELSEWORLDS comics in the months to come!
https://www.dc.com/blog/2023/10/10/nycc-2023-dc-announces-the-return-of-elseworlds-in-2024
>Otto Schmidt
huh thought he was blacklisted for being a Russian nazi or something else
Reddit tried, but failed. Otto won't get fired because he provides all the big wigs at DC free futa porn of their favorite characters.
I'm surprised it's taken them this long to bring Elseworlds back, especially with how big multiverse shit is in general these days.
Frankly, elseworlds are the only good use/application of the multiverse as a concept
>we can’t make good comics out of the main books because continuity is a mess
>so instead we are just giving up and making more elseworlds
The absolute state of DC Comics
These elseworlds also look like shit.
Does this mean they're discontinuing Black Label?
https://litter.catbox.moe/s13tu4.pdf
Cool, maybe now they can stop dumping every out of continuity comic into Black Label.
>Elseworlds return
>most of it is yet more fricking Batman shit
It's all so tiring.
Boring
Some of these titles look promising, but this Imprint isn't going to last more than 2 years. It'll suffer the same fate as Young Animal and Sandman Universe.
Sandman Universe is still going.
DC for the last few years as been so sad
They keep launching new imprints every 2-3 years in hopes of catching attention and readers but only one book in every batch announced actually gets the attention and sales while the rest languish and die quietly
>Young Anima
>Wonder Comics
>DC Ink
>DC Zoom
>Black Label
>Earth M
They’re lucky the TT books with Picolo do so well but that’s propping up the entire DC ink and Zoom. And King and every third Batman book are the only things keeping Black Label afloat
Oh and the Killing Zone until Johns took it to Image and changed names and character designs to make them OCs eg Geiger was very clearly Atomic Knights and Junkyard Joe was GI Robot
who were the other characters meant to be? Redcoat could have immortal man but I'm not sure about any other besides the ones you mentioned
>They keep launching new imprints every 2-3 years in hopes of catching attention
This has been going on since the 90s. Look up
>Piranha Press
>Paradox Press
>Helix
>Focus
>DC's deal with Humanoids
>DC's deal with 2000 AD
>All Star
>Zuda
>Minx
>Any attempt at relaunching Wildstorm (Eye of the Storm, Worldstorm, World's End)
what was the DC 2000AD deal?
DC basically kickstarted Rebellion's current paperback reprint format. Prior to that they sporadically published thin as frick hardbacks of select stories.
ah, ok, Rebellion could stand to improve its paperback IMO they still suffer from very sporadic release schedule for a book that comes out with new material weekly
Most of these are just Batman, lol.
wasn't that always the case with elseworld though?
Not necessarily m8. Batman had a lot but so did everyone else.
Black Label was sort of already doing that minus the high concept gimmick.