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Brian Bendis Relaunches Superman #1 After Man Of Steel Series, Writes Action Comics From #1001, Brings Creator Owned Books, Starts New Imprint

Published Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:30:00 -0600

Last updated Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:41:08 -0600

Forbes has run a DC PR-arranged interview with Brian Bendis, revealing many of his upcoming plans for DC Comics.

That will include a new Man Of Steel mini-series, in the fashion of John Byrne's relaunching series in the eighties. It will be a six-issue weekly series with artists including Ivan Reis, Evan "Doc" Shaner, Ryan Sook, Kevin Maguire, Adam Hughes, and Jason Fabok before taking over writing duties for Superman and Action Comics, now monthly titles.

Superman will relaunch again with a new #1 in July while Action Comics will have a new #1001. Between May and July, Man Of Steel will run weekly. The former will focus on Superman's adventures, Action Comics on Clark Kent's daily life and on Metropolis and the Daily Planet – he believes Metropolis needs building up as a fictional lovcation as Gotham has.

Before this he will be part of DC Nation #0 on May 2nd with a Superman story with José Luis García-López, to set up Action Comics. This comic will also feature a story where the Joker learns of Batman and Catwoman's upcoming marriage.

He will be moving all his creator-owned titles as "Jinxworld" that stalled of late over delays, reprinting, making available digitally and continuing series such as Powers, United States Of Murder Inc, Aka Goldfish, Scarlet, Jinx, Brilliant, Takio and the like. DC Comics have had no fully creator-owned titles since Piranha Press folded, so this would be a major new move for them. And he is stating they will promote the books in a way that Marvel's Icon did not.

On Man Of Steel, "The Man of Steel story will debut a huge new villain, a blockbuster villain who connects deeply to Superman's origin story and to his birthright," Bendis revealed. "We're going to dig in very hard, this is one of my goals, to be an additive to Superman as possible. The characters we debut right away, including this new villain, will send ripples of horror across the entire Superman family and beyond!"

And on the Superman books "They're telling the giant new story that's the status quo, what's going to be going on with Superman and Metropolis and everything around him. Again, it's following up on the big bombs we drop not only in Action Comics #1000, but following up all of those beats and digging in even deeper."

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