DC Comics’ Round Robin Tournament Returns to Make One Comic a Reality

Last 12 months, DC Comics ran its first Round Robin event, which wasn’t about an consuming contest between Batman’s numerous sidekicks (though I might undoubtedly learn a comic book about that). Instead, it was a March Madness-style bracket the place DC allowed followers to vote on which six-issue, digital-first sequence they wished, whereas solely understanding their titles and temporary summaries. The event returns in the present day with 16—sure, sixteen—potential comics that followers can vote on. Care to fulfill this 12 months’s challengers?

Match #1

HAWKMAN & HAWKWOMAN: THE CHANGELING

Hawkman and Hawkwoman have by no means had kids collectively. They know that for a truth. Then who’s Hektor Hol, the hotheaded, razor-winged teen who claims to be their son? Can they belief their very own reminiscences—or one another?

Vs.

WILDCAT: NINE LIVES

Wildcat’s spent eight of his 9 lives displaying the ropes to among the DC Universe’s heaviest hitters, and he’s bought the scarred knuckles and reset bones to show it. But now he’s solely bought yet another life to go. How fearless would you be when you knew it was your final spherical within the ring?

Match #2

THE QUESTIONS: GRAND SOLUTION

What occurs when individuals from all walks of life are activated as faceless vigilantes, every compelled to unravel an Alternate Reality Game the place the stakes are life and loss of life? That’s THE QUESTION, however does RENEE MONTOYA have the SOLUTION?

Vs.

CONSTANTINE & THE DEMON: VACATION FROM HELL

Arcane guile meets hellish fury! John Constantine is compelled to play host to Etrigan the Demon and the pair embark on a deeply private—and doubtlessly apocalyptic—mission. Journeying again residence to Liverpool, Constantine should confront ghosts from his previous, and Etrigan isn’t precisely his first selection for an ally!

Match #3

SUICIDE SQUAD: DARK

A workforce of occult misfits and monsters, assembled by Amanda Waller and led by Vampire Batman, are compelled right into a mind-melting suicide mission to assassinate Earth-13’s League of Shadows.

Vs.

JUSTICE LEAGUE [REDACTED]

Green Arrow has watched many heroes—the nice, the nice, the type—be ceaselessly scarred by the darkness they swear to battle. Rather than sit by and let any extra of his pals fall to the festering abyss, he decides to create a Justice League black-ops workforce of fighters who can survive just a few extra shadows—as a result of so far as he’s involved, they might already be misplaced. Green Arrow’s workforce of Nemesis, Killer Frost, Manhunter, Metamorpho, and Cheshire are wanted greater than ever. Green Arrow was apprehensive about what occurs if you look the abyss within the eye? That goes double when Johnny Sorrow and Merlyn workforce up.

Match #4

FIRESTORM: FOURTH WORLD PROBLEMS

When Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch make the startling discovery that the Firestorm Matrix incorporates a spark of the Life Equation, Darkseid and his military flip their sights towards the teenage nuclear heroes. But can Ronnie and Jason put their variations apart and mix into Firestorm, or will Darkseid declare the matrix for himself and Apokolips?

Vs.

KID FLASH: THE SPEED OF FEAR

REVERSE-FLASH melds with PARALLAX in an unprecedented mixture of the Speed Force and the fear-based yellow energy ring to create a lethal SPEED RING to shatter OA’s central Green Lantern battery. A confused and remoted Kid Flash (Wallace West) should chase Thawne throughout quite a lot of alien worlds to cease him and the Sinestro Corps whereas his personal powers die due to Kid Flash’s gradual disconnection with the Speed Force.

Match #5

BLACK CANARY: WHEN CANARIES CRY

When Black Canary intercepts an intelligence operative attempting to ship delicate materials on an encrypted disk, she finds herself plunged into the world of espionage to take care of a global consortium recognized solely as Mysterium. With the assistance of a French spy, Dinah should cease this shadow group from instigating battle for their very own revenue.

Vs.

GREEN LANTERN: THE LIGHT AT THE END OF FOREVER

A darkish far-future. A galaxy gripped by tyranny. When an aged farmer in a backwater system is brutalized by the most recent thugs with jetpacks and jackboots to name themselves lawmen, he remembers a forgotten previous. An period of champions. A cadre of noble peacekeepers, lengthy since vanished. His identify—he’s positive of it—is JOHN STEWART. Whatever occurred to the Green Lanterns Corps…and is it too late to reignite the sunshine…?

Match #6

DC HORROR PRESENTS: GHOST TOUR FROM HELL

A frantic mom begs for Madame Xanadu’s assist in discovering her lacking son—final seen on a ghost tour with pals. Xanadu’s studying reveals there’s a nefarious being behind the disappearances in New Orleans. Enlisting the assistance of the Demon Etrigan and Deadman, the trio rapidly notice that they’re on a Ghost Tour from hell and so they’re no match for these supernatural kidnappers.

Vs.

ANIMAL MAN: THE METAMORPHOSIS

Buddy Baker, aka Animal Man, has critical issues. His residence life is in shambles, his daughter’s powers are awakening, and the world wants him, however he’s caught. He wants change. Soon Animal Man will enter a cocoon…however when the metamorphosis is full, what’s going to emerge?

Match #7

GREEN LANTERN: THE BIRTH OF CONSPIRACY

In 1947, three occasions kindled America’s fascination with UFOs: the lads in black, flying saucer sightings, and the Roswell crash. Three low-level authorities workers, tasked with monitoring superheroes, notice that one particular person was in any respect three occasions: the Green Lantern, ALAN SCOTT. He hasn’t been seen since.

Vs.

CAPTAIN CARROT & HIS BEST FRIEND DARKSEID

The interdimensional area epic nobody requested for! DARKSEID is attempting to remove the latest New God, however the EXTREMELY FUR-IOUS (sure, we hate us too) ZOO CREW is set to achieve their long-foretold CAPTAIN CARROT first…earlier than FRIENDSHIP ruins the whole lot!

Match #8

SUPERBOY: THE MAN OF TOMORROW

Determined to seek out his place in an odd universe, Conner Kent/Superboy leaves Earth behind. But his journey of self-discovery brings him head to head with a gaggle of freedom fighters who problem not simply the whole lot Conner stands for, however what it means to bear the Superman crest.

Vs.

CYBORG: CYBER GODS

Cyborg has grown so highly effective he now not wants to go away his chilly metallic lair. He fights the nice battle, however solely just about, with Cyborg replicas. When the super-villain Gizmo and Klarion the Witch Boy combine magic and tech, they turn out to be highly effective technomancers. Cyborg is joined by Beast Boy, who tries to remind him of his true energy: his human spirit. Cyborg should reconnect together with his human facet and face the world, or Gizmo will turn out to be an all-powerful, unchallenged cyber-god and Klarion will get what he’s at all times wished: chaos and destruction.

Last 12 months, Tim Seeley and Baldemar Rivas’ Robins received the tourney. (Quelle coincidence!) This 12 months, I think Suicide Squad: Dark is the title to beat, coming off the rapturous response to James Gunn’s latest The Suicide Squad film, and followers’ curiosity within the Dark facet of the DC Universe, and its magic, horror, demons, and basic weirdness. However, Justice League [Redacted]— which I assume is the true title of the comedian, and DC hasn’t really redacted the phrase that belongs there—is probably going a robust contender as effectively, because it has the JL identify and an important premise. People do love their superheroes being grim and morally doubtful, in spite of everything.

Voting for spherical one begins at 12:15 p.m. ET in the present day and runs by April 3, and may be executed by way of DC’s Twitter, Instagram, and the DC Universe Infinite forums, whereas spherical two—through which the sequence’ writers and artists will likely be revealed—begins April 5. Just don’t count on to learn the successful title anytime quickly. Last 12 months, Robins wasn’t introduced till August, and problem #1 didn’t arrive till October.

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