Young Justice — starring Tim Drake, Conner Kent, and Bart Allen — is returning to DC Comics, and Brian Michael Bendis will probably be writing it because the flagship launch of his Wonder Comics line.
The sequence will function the artwork of former Superman co-writer/artist Patrick Gleason, who has a historical past with Damian Wayne and Jonathan Kent, however will probably be coping with a completely completely different Superboy and Robin (that is proper — Robin, not “Red Robin”) this time round.
The undertaking was introduced (together with the Wonder Comics line extra usually and different tasks like Naomi and Wonder Twins) at DC’s Meet the Publishers panel on the primary night time of New York Comedian Con, then elaborated on (with Gleason being named as artist) throughout Bendis’s highlight panel on Saturday.
In addition to Tim, Bart, and Conner, the sequence will function numerous new heroes, together with Jennie Hex (Jonah Hex’s descendant, who comes into an inheritance that features a trunk stuffed with “outdated West DC stuff” together with an “Adam Unusual raygun”), Teen Lantern (who has hacked the facility battery to do issues he “actually should not,” Bendis defined), and a mysterious new character named Naomi.
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Each Conner Kent (who first appeared in The Adventures of Superman #500 as considered one of 4 replacements for Superman after the Man of Metal died by the hands of Doomsday) and Bart Allen (who was launched as “Impulse,” Barry Allen’s grandson from the long run who grew up basically within a online game simulation of life) have been absent and barely acknowledged within the DC Universe because the occasions of Flashpoint in 2011 and the following DC reboot “The New 52.”
Bendis joked throughout his highlight panel that there have been two vocal fan teams at DC who’ve been asking him for a revival on Twitter since he got here to the corporate from Marvel: Young Justice followers, and Legion of Tremendous-Heroes followers. Whereas the Young Justice followers are fairly completely happy proper now, he mentioned, Legion followers must be affected person as a result of “we’re constructing.”
Members of the Legion of Tremendous-Heroes have appeared after the occasions of Flashpoint however the group has not had its personal title for a couple of years. Founding member Saturn Girl is at present showing in Doomsday Clock, main some followers to wonder if Geoff Johns could be reviving the sequence as a part of his Killing Zone line of titles for DC.
Young Justice #1 from Brian Michael Bendis and Patrick Gleason will probably be stocked in shops and on-line in January 2019.