All signs were pointing this moment and now it is finally here. DC Comics has its first official event of the New52 and its downright evil, “Forever Evil.” As you can see from the image above(and a better shot below), that it features Black Hand and Sinestro. Very odd choices considering the events of Green Lantern #20, don’t you think? Read below the details of this events so far, including the creative teams. Yes, TEAMS!
The seven-issue series Forever Evil debuts in September as part of a “villains month” for the publisher. Headed up by the Justice League of America creative team of writer Geoff Johns and artist David Finch, the title marks the first universe-wide event comic since DC’s superhero-line relaunch in September 2011.
So that’s where artist David Finch has gone since the very sudden exit from the recently launched Justice League of America.
“Forever Evil is a chance for David and I to work on all the greatest villains in comic books. It’s literally everybody. I don’t even know if there’s anybody not in it,” Johns says. “We’re really exploring what darkness means and the different kinds of darkness that are within these villains.”
Maybe we’ll see Geoff Johns fill in the missing blanks of Sinestro’s time post-“Wrath of the First Lantern”
Featuring a first-issue 3-D motion variant cover
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September will also see each of DC’s superhero books change titles and focuses for one month as they feature all-star antagonists along the lines of Justice League arch-enemy Darkseid, Superman nemesis Bizarro, Flash villain Gorilla Grodd and classic Batman baddies Two-Face and Poison Ivy.
So Green Lantern will probably be retitled to Relic, but what about the other four lantern books, including Larfleeze?
The goings-on in Forever Evil will spill into other comics such as Teen Titans and Suicide Squad, and in October, three five-issue tie-in books will launch:
Forever Evil: Rogues: Writer Brian Buccellato (The Flash) and Patrick Zircher (Suicide Squad) put the spotlight on the Flash’s colorful and infamous gang of Rogues, led by Captain Cold — a particular favorite of Johns, the former Flash writer, as well as Finch. “I just love his mask,” the artist says. “He looks very steely and a little bit dead in the eye, which is very evil.”
Forever Evil: Arkham War: “The biggest story with Bat-villains you’ve ever seen,” as Johns describes it, features the creative team of Peter Tomasi (Green Lantern Corps) and Scot Eaton (X-Men).
Forever Evil: A.R.G.U.S: Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) pens a title featuring the government agency Advanced Research Group Uniting Superhumans. DC comic fans have seen increasingly shady things the group’s been doing, and Steve Trevor will be learning about those as the audience does (credit samantha). “His heart is good,” Johns says, “and if ARGUS has a chance of rising above what it is right now and becoming a heroic force in the future, it’s up to Steve Trevor.”
Kindt will also take over Justice League of America for five issues emphasizing Martian Manhunter, the subject of the writer’s recent JLA backups who will be picking up what’s left of the Justice League. However, Johns will continue on the flagship Justice League series during Forever Evil for an arc with certain villains and the unlikely rise of some heroes to combat them.
Finch also has a piece of art in Forever Evil No. 1 that Johns teases “is the coolest thing I could ever imagine for something that celebrates villainy.”
And apparently, The Society plays a huge role in “Forever Evil”, but Lex Luthor, Superman’s longtime foil, is the main character of the story.
So, with all these villains running around, what of the heroes? “You’ll know who the good guys are by issue 2 that are going to take center stage,” Johns promises.
“The Justice League is dead, the villains inherit the Earth — well, what does that even mean?” Johns says. “Some of them might not like how it’s being run. Some of them might like the old way better.
“Once the heroes are off the table, what’s that mean for the villains? What can they accomplish together?”
info via USAToday