Return to the undead-ravaged alternate universe of DC's DCeased in a first look at June 30's Dead Planet #1. And in this world, there's an all-new, all-different Justice League (to borrow a phrase from Marvel).
"We may have killed off the Justice League but, at the same time, we carefully created a new Justice League to take their place," writer/co-creator Tom Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year.
This version of Earth fell after a corrupted version of the Anti-Life Equation turned many heroes, villains, and others into zombie-like beings. A war erupted, and while there were survivors, they left the planet to find a new home.
"Jon Kent and Damian Wayne were positioned to inherit the mantles of their fallen fathers as a new Superman and Batman. Cassie Sandsmark survived the battle between the Amazons and the Atlanteans to become the new Wonder Woman. Mera also survived this attack, so a monarch of Atlantis is still there as Aquawoman. Wallace survived to be the new Flash. Black Canary was chosen to be the next Green Lantern after Hal’s death. Black Lightning is still around along with his powered daughters, Anissa and Jennifer."
Set five years after the events of the original DCeased limited series, DCeased: Dead Planet finds this new JLA being called back to their Earth - with talk of a cure to this undead disease which ravaged their world.
"Will there be tragedy in Dead Planet? Of course! It’s an undead apocalypse, not a picnic," Taylor said. "But I will say we didn’t create a new Justice League just to watch them all die. There will be despair, there will be heroic sacrifices, but there will also be comedy and triumph mixed in with, you know, all those shocking deaths of beloved heroes."
Taylor returns for this six-issue sequel, along with original artist Trevor Hairsine, inker Stefano Gaudiano, colorist Gigi Baldissini, and editor Ben Abernathy.
