DC’s wildly popular zombie comic DCeased is getting another spinoff in 2020. DCeased: Hope at World’s End is a digital-first series that fleshes out a missing period of time from the original book.
The new series will again be written by DCeased writer Tom Taylor, with art by Dustin Nguyen (Descender), Renato Guedes (Action Comics), Carmine Di Giandomenico (The Flash) and Marco Failla (The Marvelous X-Men). Ben Oliver, Francesco Mattina and Yasmine Putri will provide covers. Check out the slideshow below for a look at covers and interior art for the new series:
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Hope at World’s End spins out of the events of the original DCeased series, specifically filling in the time jump that takes place in DCeased #5. The series will offer greater insight into the struggles facing heroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Stephanie Brown, Wally West and Jimmy Olsen as they deal with a world ravaged by an Anti-Life zombie plague.
“There was a point in DCeased where we had to make the decision to skip weeks of losses and triumphs and heroism or our first miniseries wouldn’t exactly be a miniseries,” said Taylor in DC’s press release. “But we knew we had a larger story to tell, so we seeded plots we could expand on and deliberately left huge characters off the table for the future. That future is here.”
Though it’s a spinoff of the original series, Hope at World’s End will also lay the groundwork for the upcoming sequel series DCeased 2, which launches in June 2020. DCeased 2 deals with a new generation of heroes rising up to replace the zombie-ravaged old, and Hope at World’s End will help chronicle the evolution of younger characters like Jon Kent, Stephanie Brown and Damian Wayne.
“With Hope at World’s End, we finally get to tell the tale of what Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Black Adam, Wink, the Aerie, Martian Manhunter, Black Manta, Steph Brown, Robin, Superboy and more did to save as much of humanity as they could,” continued Taylor. “And Super Sons fans won’t want to miss the apocalyptic adventures of Damian and Jon as they stand up to the worst crisis the Earth has ever seen, and take their first steps on the road to becoming the next World’s Finest.”
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Hope at World’s End will run 14 chapters in total. The first chapter is available now on the DC Comics app, ComiXology and other digital comics providers, with new chapters to follow every other Tuesday. DC hasn’t yet confirmed a print version of the series, but based on past digital-first projects like Injustice: Gods Among Us, we assume the publisher will eventually release the series in both single issue and trade paperback formats.
Hope at World’s End is actually the second DCeased spinoff to debut in 2020. DC recently wrapped up DCeased: The Unkillables, a limited series that explores the events of the original comic from the perspective of more unsavory types like Deathstroke and Red Hood. For more on the DCeased saga, find out why the original series was nominated for IGN’s Best Limited Comic Book or Mini-Series of 2019 and see seven other times zombies invaded our favorite superhero comics.
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Source: IGN.com DCeased: Hope at World's End Expands the Superhero Zombie Epic