Joshua Williamson Talks Bringing Rogues To DC's Black Label
DC's Rogues are returning in a new Black Label series which will focus on older versions of the Flash villains going on one last heist. Led by Captain Cold, the Rogues will temporarily unretire and band together under Leonard Snart to plan a heist in Gorilla City. However, they quickly discovering going back to their roots as criminals comes with a plethora of problems.
Rogues by Joshua Williamson, Leomacs, Matheus Lopes, andHassan Otsmane-Elhaou is an upcoming four-issue series starring a down-on-his-luck Captain Cold facing life after villainy. The series makes use of DC's Black Label rating as a bloody, profanity-filled affair that brings the lovable (but deadly) villains back together after they've been out of the game for ten years. We spoke to Williamson about the series, what readers can expect, and Captain Cold's insane plan to rob Gorilla Grodd in Gorilla City.
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Why was the Black Label imprint the perfect spot for this book?
Joshua Williamson: I think it was just the freedom. I couldn't do a book like this [otherwise]. I'd have to look at it again, but if I took Rogues #1 and just took the first 22 pages, we don't get very far. I think we barely get to Lisa by then. I wouldn't have been able to do that anywhere else.
And with some of the more mature themes that we're exploring, I don't think I would have been able to explore in the mainline DCU. I think with Black Label, they just let you tell a more complicated story, and tell it in a different kind of way than I'd be able to do in the main line.
What was it like collaborating with Leomacs and Mateus Lopes?
Joshua Williamson: It's really nice when you're working with somebody, and
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