This week DC Comics released the third issue of W. Maxwell Prince’s hit series, The Deadman. Alongside the release the publisher has confirmed the series is being extended and will now run for 12 issues.
The third edition of this morbid disquisition concerning the attrition/detrition of the human condition, which, in the weekly tradition, boasts a four-color exhibition on some printer’s emission. Here, by order of an anonymous optician, watch closely this vision of our titular apparition (armed, you’ll remember, with fresh erudition) try and survive—by another’s volition—a dire and dangerous mission through the hissin’, Stygian conditions of putrid and pockmarked Perdition—a kind of new rendition (depicted as a living, breathing, country-sized conniption), which is rich in its list of sick compositions: e.g., reason’s egregious abolition; a pyrotechnic passel of pernicious seditions; hideous, bulging buck-toothed dentition; admittedly ambitious demonic deglutition…of gargoyles and ghouls in decomposition…not to mention an array of impossible physical positions that a physician might consider the work of magicians. So please accept our contrition for this rude imposition, our addled transmission this ungodly, offset-press parturition—one that we wish some brave obstetrician would bring to fruition its quick decommission.
“The response to our Deadman story has been absolutely spirit-lifting,” said W. Maxwell Prince. “We’re having so much fun giving new life to Boston Brand and his purgatorial world…and we’re not ready to give up the ghost just yet. Here’s to 6 more issues of monsters, mantras, and mystic math!”
With six additional issues from W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, and Good Ol’ Neon, Boston Brand’s journey through life, death, and the strange spaces in between is only beginning.
As DC All In continues, fans can expect even more creator‑driven #1s and bold new directions for iconic characters including Zatanna, the Teen Titans, the Doom Patrol, Vixen, Jonah Hex, Deadman, Barbara Gordon, the Legion of Super-Heroes, Lobo, Firestorm, Static, the Demon, Deathstroke, Deadshot, and Batwoman. Upcoming Next Level titles will feature work from Skottie Young, Joshua Williamson, Amancay Nahuelpan, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Diego Olortegui, Niko Henrichon, DaNi, Stephanie Williams, Kyle Higgins, Jorge Corona, W. Maxwell Prince, Michael Walsh, Javier Rodríguez, Martín Morazzo, Cody Ziglar, Darcy Van Poelgeest, James Harren, Khary Randolph, Fernando Blanco, Tony Fleecs, Greg Rucka, Rafael De Latorre, Deniz Camp, Mariko Tamaki, Hayden Sherman, Jamal Campbell, Gerry Duggan, and Jeff Lemire.
Additional DC Next Level titles, creative teams, and storylines will be revealed in the months ahead as DC builds toward a landmark year of storytelling across the DC Universe.
