DC Comics Rings in Black History Month with DC Power

The final a number of years, each DC and Marvel have launched anthology tales celebrating heroes which might be queer or of a selected marginalized identification. DC’s output is significantly smaller than Marvel’s, however no much less essential, as Kevin Conroy’s story from this yr’s DC Pride will attest. And come 2023, the writer is constant these anthologies with one for Black History Month.

Revealed throughout DC’s solicitations for January 2023, the DC Power anthology will herald Black writers and artists to inform tales starring the writer’s varied high-profile Black superheroes. Name dropped within the solicit for Power or featured within the cowl embrace Nubia, Batman (Jace Fox), each Greens Lanterns John Stewart and Jo Mullein, Cyborg, and Aqualad (Jackson Hyde). And although particular groups weren’t given, the inventive lineup will embrace Chuck Brown (Black Manta), Stephanie Williams (Wakanda), Evan Narcisse (io9, Rise of the Black Panther), and others.

DC Power is the second anthology centered on the writer’s Black heroes popping out subsequent yr. In February, DC will launch the Milestone thirtieth Anniversary Special, which can concentrate on heroes from that specific imprint like Static, Rocket, and Hardware. Though that particular and Power can have among the identical inventive forces, equivalent to Brown and Williams, it’s in all probability a secure guess to say that Milestone characters may probably not make an look in Power. In the previous, DC’s had a little bit of a bizarre relationship with Milestone characters showing in its media and comics, notably Static. That stated, Milestone’s particular will characteristic a crossover between an older Static and Batman Beyond, so possibly there’ll be some exceptions made.

DC Power will launch on January 31, whereas the Milestone thirtieth Anniversary Special simply has the discharge window of “February” at time of writing. Hopefully it’s DC’s equal to Marvel Voices and is used for different anthologies centered on the varied heroes in DC’s ever-expanding catalog.

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