DC is continuous the legacy of Young Justice: Phantoms with a brand new six-issue collection launching this summer season, Young Justice: Targets.
Young Justice: Targets is a brand new collection from DC written by Young Justice: Phantoms showrunner Greg Weisman, with artwork from Christopher Jones. The collection, which launches in July, continues the story of Young Justice: Phantoms, which is streaming on HBO Max. The plot synopsis for Young Justice: Targets reads, “Queen Perdita has been kidnapped! Mysterious armored assailants have snatched the Vlatavan royal out from beneath Bowhunter Safety, leaving Inexperienced Arrow and Black Canary poisoned and comatose within the course of! Now a rallying cry echoes across the globe, and throughout super-teams, to band collectively and rescue Perdita!”
“It has been terrific working with Christopher Jones acquire on one other Young Justice comedian, and I am actually excited for the followers to learn Young Justice: Targets,” Weisman stated. “It is a totally canon six-issue mini-series, selecting up proper the place Young Justice: Phantoms left off, with loads of motion, practically our whole forged, and a number of new revelations.”
“It has been a tremendous journey years after working with Greg Weisman on Young Justice comics, getting the chance to assist create storyboards for the newest season of the TV present, and now returning to provide extra comics,” Jones added. “Between my progress as an artist and the fabulous shade by Jason Wright, I believe these are the best-looking comics I’ve ever had a hand in creating. I really like getting to assist inform the tales of those characters, and I can not look forward to followers to see the place issues go after Young Justice: Phantoms.”
Young Justice is an unique present set throughout the DC Universe that originally debuted in 2010. Following its cancelation in 2013, Warner Bros. Animation revived the collection with a 3rd season, Young Justice: Outsiders, which premiered in 2019. The fourth season, Young Justice: Phantoms, noticed the present transfer to HBO Max. The second a part of the season is at present streaming, with new episodes releasing on Thursdays.
The collection largely revolves round a staff of teenage and younger grownup superheroes, together with Robin, Child Flash, Miss Martian and extra. “We felt it was time — after two seasons the place the plot drove most of our decisions — to get again to the core characters of our collection and see the place each was of their lives, a decade after we first met them,” Weisman beforehand stated of the place Young Justice: Phantoms would take the characters. “By way of the order of the arcs, the choice there was a mixture of the overarching plot of the season and a want to combine issues up in order that no two arcs in a row felt too related.”
Young Justice #1 — which comes from Weisman and Jones, with variant cowl artwork by Meghan Hetrick and Travis Mercer — releases on July 26 from DC Comics.
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