Brent Jackson
DC is celebrating Black History with the anthology Milestones in History, as well as Static: Season One, Batwing: Luke Fox, DC’s Represent! and YA Graphic Novel Mister Miracle: The Great Escape
February also sees the return of Monkey Prince from Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang!
Friday, November 19th, DC CONNECT #19 will be available online and in-stores, rounding up all the DC titles coming in February 2022, including titles celebrating Black trailblazers with the superpowered Super Heroes of the Dakota-verse, the launch of Aquamen, the triumphant return of Monkey Prince to DC’s comics, and the terrifying events going in Arkham Tower in the continuation of the weekly “Shadows of the Bat” event.
Celebrate Black History Month the Milestone way, as the superpowered citizens of Dakota (including Static, Icon, Rocket, Hardware, and more) narrate the true stories of Black trailblazers from across human history! Witness the military campaigns of Hannibal and the Queen of Sheba, the literary accomplishments of Alexandre Dumas, the World War One dogfights of Eugene Bullard against the legendary Red Baron, and many, many more, all written and drawn by a who’s who of comics and literary talent! On sale February 15th, this 96 page anthology honors Black History from around the world in a beautiful, prestige format book.
Written by REGINALD HUDLIN, ALICE RANDALL,
TOURÉ, MICHAEL HARRIOT, and more
Art by VARIOUS
Cover by CHRISCROSS
Variant cover by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
$9.99 US | 96 pages | Prestige Format | One-shot
ON SALE 2/15/22
Milestone fans can also pick up the critically acclaimed collected Static: Season One, by writers Vita Ayala and Reginald Hudlin, with art by Denys Cowan, Nikolas Draper-Ivey, CHRISCROSS, and more, on sale February 22nd.
Also in stores February is Nubia & the Amazons #5, with a gorgeous variant cover by Alexis Franklin for Black History Month, part of a variant cover program celebrating DC’s Black Super Heroes. For more information on how DC is celebrating Black stories and storytellers, as well as DC UNIVERSE INFINITE reading lists and more, make sure to follow @DCComics and check out DCComics.com.
Continuing from the pages of May’s DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration #1 anthology, DC’s Monkey Prince will return in a new twelve-issue comic book series from writer Gene Luen Yang and artist Bernard Chang. The series kicks off on Lunar New Year, February 1, with select covers wrapped in gold printed lucky red envelopes to celebrate! Marcus Sun moves around a lot because his adoptive parents are freelance henchpeople, and at the beginning of the series he finds himself as the new kid at Gotham City High School, where a mysterious man with pig features asks Marcus to walk through a water curtain to reveal himself as who Marcus really is…someone who has adventured through The Journey to the West, can transform into 72 different formations, can clone himself using his hairs, and is called…the Monkey Prince!
Written by GENE LUEN YANG
Art and cover by BERNARD CHANG
Variant by STANLEY “ARTGERM” LAU
1:25 variant by HICHAM HABCHI
1:50 variant by DUSTIN NGUYEN
Team variant by ZAO DAO
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (Card stock)
ON SALE 2/1/22
Things are getting dark in Gotham City in the weekly “Shadows of the Bat” event taking place in Detective Comics. Lead by writer Mariko Tamaki, with back-up stories by Matthew Rosenberg, and art by Max Raynor, Irvin Rodriguez, and Fernando Blanco, Nightwing, Batwoman and the Huntress seek to solve the mystery at the heart of Arkham Tower, as Dr. Wear’s plans slowly come to light… and the inhabitants of the Tower revert to their former, murderous selves in Act Two of “Shadows of the Bat.”
DETECTIVE COMICS #1051
Written by MARIKO TAMAKI
Art by MAX RAYNOR
Backup written by MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Backup art by FERNANDO BLANCO
Cover by IRVIN RODRIGUEZ
Variant by LEE BERMEJO
1:25 variant by JORGE FORNÉS
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (Card stock)
ON SALE 2/1/22
DETECTIVE COMICS #1052
Written by MARIKO TAMAKI
Art by MAX RAYNOR
Backup written by MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Backup art by FERNANDO BLANCO
Cover by IRVIN RODRIGUEZ
Variant by LEE BERMEJO
1:25 variant by JORGE FORNÉS
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (Card stock)
ON SALE 2/8/22
DETECTIVE COMICS #1053
Written by MARIKO TAMAKI
Art by MAX RAYNOR
Backup written by MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Backup art by FERNANDO BLANCO
Cover by IRVIN RODRIGUEZ
Variant by LEE BERMEJO
1:25 variant by JORGE FORNÉS
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (Card stock)
ON SALE 2/15/22
DETECTIVE COMICS #1054
Written by MARIKO TAMAKI
Art by MAX RAYNOR
Backup written by MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Backup art by FERNANDO BLANCO
Cover by IRVIN RODRIGUEZ
Variant by LEE BERMEJO
1:25 variant by JORGE FORNÉS
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (Card stock)
ON SALE 2/22/22
And of course, no February would be complete without Weird Love Tales. Love is in the air again, and DC is here to warm your heart and brighten your soul with eight timeless tales of…weird love? We’ve got stories of a love as old as Jurassic time on Dinosaur Island, a bromance between Peacemaker and his eagle sidekick Eagly, and a first date you never saw coming. Oh wow, these really do sound sweet and heartwarming! So c’mon, let your freak flag fly and get weird this Valentine’s Day with Weird Love Tales #1, on sale February 8.
WEIRD LOVE TALES #1
Written by REX OGLE, RICH DOUEK, COLLIN KELLY,
JACKSON LANZING, RAM V, STEPHANIE PHILLIPS, DEVIN GRAYSON,
and others
Art by GERALDO BORGES, CHRISTIAN DUCE, PHIL HESTER,
ANDE PARKS, JON SOMMARIVA, ROGER ROBINSON, and others
Cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
Variant cover by AMANDA CONNER
$9.99 US | 80 pages | One-shot | Perfect bound
ON SALE 2/8/22
February also sees the series finale of the hit Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour, from writer Tee Franklin and artist Max Sarin. In the final issue of the series, Ivy seeks out Vixen’s help to defeat Mephitic and save Harley before time runs out, and meanwhile Gordon gets an anonymous invitation to Detroit. And a new friend changes the way Ivy views relationships in this fantastic finale! Fans of animated series who’ve been enjoying Harley and Ivy’s road-trippin’ hijinks won’t want to miss this finale issue.
Written by TEE FRANKLIN
Art and cover by MAX SARIN
Variant cover by DERRICK CHEW
$3.99 US | 32 pages | 6 of 6 | $4.99 US Variant (Card Stock)
ON SALE 2/8/22
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