The Batman who Laughs corrupts 6 of DC’s Super Heroes who end up terrorizing Earth this November and December, as DC revealed a series of six comics running parallel to the story unfolding in Batman/Superman by writer Joshua Williamson and artist David Marquez. Each one-shot or tie-in special spotlights a corrupt version of Shazam!, Supergirl, Hawkman Blue Beetle and others, known within the DC Universe as The Infected. These six issues star DC’s beloved heroes, revealed to be secretly infected by The Batman Who Laughs with a toxin that violently transforms them into the worst versions of themselves. Their buried frustrations and pent-up anger will boil to the surface, unleashing dangerous results.
Starting off this storyline are one-shot issues The Infected: King Shazam! #1 on November 6th by writer Sina Grace (Iceman, Go Go Power Rangers) and artist Joe Bennett (The Terrifics, The Immortal Hulk), to be followed by The Infected: Scarab #1 on November 20th, written by Dennis “Hopeless” Hallum (Sea of Stars, The Astonishing Spider-Man) with art by Freddie E. Williams II (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man/Thundercats). Both issues will feature covers by David Marquez and Dean White. DC Comics describes the plots as: One is a story of a hero whose soul has been turned black and who has something to prove to the old guard, the other a tale of a hero fighting the evil inside him, with his friends and family about to pay the price…and then some.
Fans have already gotten a glimpse of The Infected in The Batman Who Laughs from the creative team Scott Snyder and Jock and have seen the brutality of a jacked-up, Dark Multiverse-infected Shazam! in previews of Batman/Superman, the scope of the deadly pathogen unleashed by The Batman Who Laughs, himself a twisted Dark Multiverse version of Bruce Wayne, has yet to be realized.
Tying up the knot in November are The Infected tie-in issues Hawkman #18 on November 13th, written by Robert Venditti with artists Pat Olliffe and Tom Palmer, and Supergirl #36 on November 13th, written by Marc Andreyko with artwork done by Eduardo Pansica and Julio Ferreira. Tyler Kirkham will do the cover art for Hawkman #18 while Supergirl #36 cover artist will be Dan Mora.
Superman nor Batman will not know who’s been infected, nor do they know who has turned, and they don’t know who’s a sleeper agent either for The Batman Who Laughs. The 6 Infected heroes will be revealed in Batman/Superman #4 brought to you by Joshua Williamson and David Marquez. This issue will carry an acetate cover by Emanuela Lupacchino, and is out on November 27th!
For the final two victims of The Batman Who Laughs’ toxins, no spoilers here, will hit shelves with spotlight one-shot issues of their own in December 2019. Pick up The Batman Who Laughs HC (JUN190568) by Scott Snyder and Jock along with Batman/Superman #1 (JUN190450) by Joshua Williamson and David Marquez on August 28th at MaltaComics for clues to who the other two heroes turned by The Batman Who Laughs’ influence might be!
Below is a breakdown of the upcoming issues.
INFECTED KING SHAZAM #1
INFECTED SCARAB #1
HAWKMAN #18 YOTV ACETATE
(W) Robert Venditti (A) Pat Oliffe, Tom Palmer (CA) Tyler Kirkham
Corrupted with an infection concocted by the Batman Who Laughs, Carter Hall’s psyche is overpowered by the darkest of all his past lives: the Sky Tyrant, the villainous Hawkman of Earth-3! A merciless winged warrior with no remorse and no rival, Sky Tyrant is unleashed on our Earth. The only chance of stopping him lies with the fading consciousness of Carter Hall. The series that reinvented Hawkman’s mythology to encompass all of time and space takes its next adventurous leap into the Multiverse!
SUPERGIRL #36 YOTV ACETATE
(W) Marc Andreyko (A) Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira (CA) Dan Mora
Supergirl-the infected! Brainiac-1 attempts to contact Supergirl at the Fortress of Solitude, but for what nefarious purpose? No matter what he has planned, things are about to go from bad to worse as Supergirl heads on a collision course with the Batman Who Laughs! He’s targeted Superman as part of his plan to infect heroes and transform them into their twisted Dark Multiverse counterparts-but Supergirl gets caught in the crossfire, and the Year of the Villain stakes get even higher!
BATMAN SUPERMAN #4 YOTV ACETATE
(W) Joshua Williamson (A) David Marquez (CA) Emanuela Lupacchino
Even from prison, the Batman Who Laughs is staying two steps ahead of the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel. His plan to infect heroes and turn them into the Dark Multiverse versions of themselves is starting to build steam, with Shazam and others already succumbing to his evil toxin. Batman and Superman are racing the clock to prevent the other three members of the Secret Six from being poisoned, but they realize they are too late when those three come looking for them instead-one of whom is a lot closer to Superman than expected and itching for a fight!
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