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Wait Ages For Klarion Witch Boy, Then Two Turn Up At Once (Spoilers)

This Tuesday, two comics from DC, qill feature Klarion The Witch Boy, The Outsiders #5 and Speed Force #5. Yes it's odd.

Published Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:27:10 -0500

by Rich Johnston

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Klarion the Witch Boy appears in The Outsiders #5 and Speed Force #5 on the same day.
Created in 1973 by Jack Kirby, Klarion has a complex backstory and infrequent appearances.
Klarion's resurgence comes without a clear reason, sparking curiosity in his sudden popularity.
Both issues featuring Klarion are set to release on March 12, 2024, fueling fan speculation.

Klarion the Witch Boy was created by Jack Kirby for The Demon in 1973, both the archenemy of Etrigan the Demon and is a reoccurring adversary in the DC Universe. Originally from Witch World, a magical dimension, he rebelled against adult authority and fled to the DC Universe. Revived by Peter David for Young Justice: Sins of Youth in 2000, he was reinvented by Grant Morrison and Fraser Irving for Seven Soldiers of Victory in 2005, inhabitant of an underground community known as Limbo Town, inhabited by the Puritan witch descendants of the lost population of Roanoke. And it is now these authorities that Klarion rebelled against.

In this New 52, Klarion, he had own comic book series by Ann Nocenti and Trevor McCarthy in 2014 but it was an early casualty and, aside from appearing in Dark Crisis, allied with Deathstroke's Dark Army and ascending into a Lord of Chaos, he hasn't been seen a lot in recent years

Which is why it's odd when this Tuesday, two will come along at once, with two comics from DC, both issue five of their respective series. In The Outsiders #5 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Robert Carey and Speed Force #5 by Jarrett Williams and Daniele Di Nicuolo. Might five being the satanic number of evil. the pentagram and the like, be of note or a complete coincidence?

Turning up in The Outsiders to mock the concept of the superhero as a pretender to gods, demons and angels.

While also turning up in Speed Force with incantations aplenty. Is there any reason bwhy Klarion The Witch Boy has suddenly gotten incredible popular this week? Um… nope. Accident or design?

OUTSIDERS #5 CVR A ROGER CRUZ
(W) Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (A) Robert Carey (CA) Roger Cruz
Nocturne. The world is dying. Welcome to the funeral. You–and the Outsiders–are invited to the biggest social event of 2024: a gathering of the most terrifying monsters from across the DC Universe. After all, horror is in right now. Follow Kate Kane, Luke Fox, and Drummer as they step into the shadows of Kate's past after receiving a strange invitation from her former lover, the vampiric Nocturna. Why have they been invited? What other monstrous entities will be attending? How many will die before the night is through? And who's faintly crying in the other room? Accept your invitation to find out–but be warned that once you open the page, there's no turning back! Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 03/12/2024

SPEED FORCE #5 (OF 6) CVR A SWEENEY BOO
(W) Jarrett Williams (A) Daniele Di Nicuolo (CA) Sweeney Boo
After teaming up with the rest of the Flash Family in Titans: Beast World Tour Central City, Avery and Wallace are more determined than ever to take down the mysterious forces behind the app that's brainwashing not only the S.T.A.R. Labs scientists but now the youth of Keystone City. But before they can reach the Big Boss, they've got to face off with holographic versions of themselves!
Retail: $3.99 In-Store Date: 03/12/2024

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