DC’s All In relaunch is reinventing Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman
DC Comics announced “the biggest initiative that DC has done in the better part of a decade” today, at least in the words of writer Scott Snyder (Batman, Undiscovered Country), who shared the news in an announcement video on the official DC YouTube channel. DC’s All In is a coordinated publishing launch of new comics series, new story arcs in current series, and a new alternate DC Universe full of restarted, reimagined DC Comics heroes.
“All In is about inviting everybody in — the existing creators, some new creators, everything — to tell their best stories, and to begin them all at one point,” Snyder said. “The idea is to create the greatest jumping-on point for you guys in many, many years.” He and co-host Joshua Williamson (Superman, The Flash) stressed that All In was not a reboot or a retcon, but would flow out of the conclusion of DC’s current crossover event, Absolute Power.
The crossover is expected to conclude on October 2nd with Absolute Power #4, after which a DC All In Special #1 issue — co-written by Williamson and Snyder, and drawn by Daniel Sampere (Wonder Woman, Injustice 2) and Wes Craig (Deadly Class, Kaya) — will cover the aftermath of Absolute Power in the main DC universe, and introduce an entirely new setting: the Absolute Universe.
Created by Darkseid somehow (Snyder and Williamson didn’t want to spoil more of Absolute Power than necessary), the Absolute Universe will be an alternate setting, one where DC is inviting writers and artists to reinvent characters like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, starting their stories over from the beginning. This new setting won’t replace the main DC timeline, but it won’t be entirely separate, either. According to Snyder, the Absolute Universe will be part of “a bigger story that we’ll be telling over the course of the next few years.”
The name “absolute” suggests prestige at DC, having long been the imprint for giant-sized, high-quality hardback and slipcovered editions of the company’s most historic
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