Legendary Woodsman

There’s some big news in the horizon!

As you’ve probably heard, DC Comics is less than a month away from relaunching their entire line of superhero comics, fifty-two all new titles starting (or starting over) at the first issue. Most of their characters are getting new looks, some are getting streamlined or updated histories, and some older and more obscure characters are getting a turn in the spotlight.

Once DC started releasing the cover images of what the New DC Universe would look like, it got me wondering what the New DC Universe would look like … if it were out of DC’s hands.

I contacted a plethora of very talented – and very different – cartoonists with a simple challenge: If DC approached you and offered you any DC property – past or present – of your choice to be your own new ongoing part of the DC Universe, what would the cover to the first issue look like?

Fifty-two artists (and then some) responded, and that brings us here – DC FIFTY-TOO, The New DC Universe as imagined by fifty-two independent cartoonists. Starting on August 15th and running up through August 31st – the day the New DC Universe launches – this blog will unveil four new covers for DC Comics that never were but probably ought to have been, brought to you by artists like Indigo Kelleigh, Joel Priddy, Zack Soto, Matthew Allison, Robert Wilson IV, Mike Norton, Amy Mebberson and many many many more!

Start spreading the word and be sure to be back on August 15th when the first four covers will be revealed!

Thanks!
–Jon Morris

I hope it’s not too much of a spoiler to mention that I’ll be contributing a cover. I’ll keep the subject matter of the piece a secret but I’m pretty psyched and I’ll be polishing it up in the next couple of weeks.

-tony