Gotham By Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age heads up a new range of DC Elseworlds comics in 2024
Oct. 12, 2023And there’s a dark fantasy theme to many of the titles
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The Elseworlds line started back in 1991 with Batman: Holy Terror. The label publishes stories about iconic DC heroes outside the constraints of regular continuity - hence titles like Superman: Red Son, which imagined what it would be like if Kal-El landed in the Soviet Union, rather than Kansas.
The six new titles are as follows:
Gotham By Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age
Andy Diggle and Leandro Fernandez write and draw this 12-issue sequel to the famous 1989 one-shot. According to DC, the new series “expands the mysterious and gothic world created byBrian AugustynandMike Mignolabeyond the confines of Gotham City, introducing DC’s greatest heroes as they come together for the first time to form a 19th-century Justice League. As they unite against the greatest threat the world has ever known, they will learn their world’s secret Kryptonian history.”
The Human Targetartist Greg Smallwood both writes and draws this six-issue miniseries, described as a “brutal and remarkable retelling of Batman’s origin set against a rugged, medieval Earth.”
This six-issue fantasy series by Jay Kristoff and Tirso Cons is inspired by Norse mythology and is set in the same world as Tom Taylor’sDark Knights of Steel.
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DC said: “The legendary assassinDeathstrokestalks a frozen wasteland, killing for coin among a nation of ever-warring jarls. But when our murderer for hire finds himself cast in the role of reluctant guardian, will he fight to end the icy curse destroying his land, or be consumed by the sins of his own dark past?”
Green Lantern Dark, by Tate Brombal and Werther Dell’Edera, reimagines the sci-fi series as a dark fantasy saga set on a post-apocalyptic Earth.
“The battle between good and evil ended long ago. Now, darkness prevails as humanity struggles to survive on a corrupted planet. Only one hero remains, the one who wields the green flame that can return light to a dark world - The Green Lantern. But she’s been missing for years, and, on the isolated island of New England, the horrors only get worse by the night.”
The six-issue Batman: Nightfire is written and drawn by the twin brother team of Seth and Clay Mann. Nightfire is described as “a mind-expanding mystery, beautifully counterbalanced with explosive action” that sees Bruce Wayne travel to the past to fix a devastating tragedy. But “what secrets does this Batman hold so tight that he would watch Gotham be reduced to ashes? What truths are exposed when there is nowhere left to hide?” Sounds intriguing.
This 12-issue series by Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt is a sequel to their DC vs. Vampires series, which ended earlier this year. “Sunlight is restored to the Earth, but was it too late? As a new Ice Age dawns, humanity faces their most deadly threat yet - Barbara Gordon Queen of the Vampires!” Sounds good, though it’snot the first DC vs. Vampires spinoff.
We’ll have more information on all of these comics as soon as it’s available.
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Will Salmon is the Comics Editor for GamesRadar/Newsarama. He has been writing about comics, film, TV, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time if you stop and think about it. At Future he has previously launched scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for over a decade. He sometimes feels very old, like Guy Pearce in Prometheus. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places and he runs the micro-label Modern Aviation, which puts out experimental music on cassette tape.
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