DC Comics is promising a brand new day with Daybreak of DC, the corporate’s 2023 publishing initiative, set to ship new updates for heroes and straightforward leaping on factors for readers across the DC Universe. However the firm’s newest announcement is bound to please long-time followers as properly: Nicola Scott will draw the brand new Titans collection.
Which implies she will get to attract Nightwing’s butt once more.
It’s unofficial however extraordinarily winked-at lore in DC Comics that Dick Grayson, née Robin, now Nightwing, grew as much as have one of many tightest butts within the superhero neighborhood, as commented on by heroes, villains, and his girlfriends alike. And whereas it’s the sort of memetic factor that’s tough to hint again to any single supply, Scott’s rendering of a reverse shot of the character in Secret Six #9 (2009) is taken into account to have had an outsize impact. Scott has traditionally embraced the blame/honor.
DC had beforehand introduced a brand new Titans collection (and it was teased as lately as final week’s situation of Nightwing), starring a lineup acquainted to followers of the basic 1980 comedian collection and the Teen Titans animated collection alike. However the inventive staff behind it was formally below wraps till right now. Scott will staff up with Nightwing author Tom Taylor (Superman: Son of Kal-El, Suicide Squad), with the Titans Tower rebuilt in Dick Grayson’s house stomping grounds of Blüdhaven (consider it because the Newark, NJ, to Gotham’s New York, NY).
The corporate additionally revealed two different inventive groups on Daybreak of DC books, Morgan Hampton (graduate of DC’s Milestone Initiative expertise growth program) and Tom Raney (Uncanny X-Males, Avengers Academy) on a Cyborg solo collection — and Jeremy Adams and Xermánico on Inexperienced Lantern (changing Mariko Tamaki and an an unannounced artist, and renaming and refocusing the e book from Hal Jordan particularly to Inexperienced Lantern typically).
Titans #1, Cyborg #1, and Inexperienced Lantern #1 will hit cabinets in Might.