DC Universe New Weekly Releases 11 May, 2021

Vertigo knocks it outta the park this week featuring 3 issues that I would really like to read on DC Universe Infinite. There’s also the usual Batman and Superman stuff, but Hellblazer, The Dreaming, and newcomer Sweet Tooth all look pretty good!

Anyway, here’s the new stuff I found this week:

DC Universe Infinite New Releases May 11, 2021:

• Batman #102
• DCeased: Dead Planet #5
• Tales From The Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush #1
• Young Justice #20
• Justice League #56
• Hellblazer: Rise and Fall #2
• Sweet Tooth: The Return #1
• The Dreaming: Waking Hours #4

TOP RELEASES OF THE WEEK

Only 8 new comics released today (last week had 14).  Anyway, looking at Comic Book Roundup which aggregates a bunch of review sites, here are the top issues from this batch of comics. This week I found 4 issues that I wanted to look further into.

• DCeased: Dead Planet #5
  by Tom Taylor and Trevor Hairsine.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  With most of the Justice League off Earth, John Constantine and Batman lead a covert team on a mission so insane it could have only been hatched by the man they call Hellblazer! But time is running out to save the infected on Earth-because a fate worse than death is coming!
• Hellblazer: Rise and Fall #2
  by Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson.
  Published by Vertigo Comics, 2020.
  John Constantine has been in trouble before, but running afoul of the Devil himself is crossing a line even for the self-styled Hellblazer. But that’s exactly who darkens Constantine’s door with news that John’s investigation into the gruesome “angel murders” of London’s billionaire class and Satan’s own vendetta against a treacherous demon are actually the same mission. What’s that mean? You guessed it: It’s time for a team up!
• Sweet Tooth: The Return #1
  by Jeff Lemire
  Published by Vertigo Comics, 2020.
  Once upon a time there was a little boy named Gus. He had antlers and lived with his father in a little cabin in the woods. Then his father died, and the big man with cold eyes took Gus away. Gus went on many great adventures, found friends, love, happiness, family, and acceptance.Now, years later…it begins again. A young boy with antlers and deer-like feature wakes in a bizarre and completely foreign world where the last humans struggle to survive. They tell the boy he is special, he is chosen, and that he alone can lead them back to a world dominated by the oppressive Hybrids.Sweet Tooth: The Return is no re-hash of the original series, but rather a bold re-imagining of the Sweet Tooth mythology; taking elements of the original series and remixing them into something familiar, but totally new. A divided world. A planet long ago past the point of devastation. And at the center of it all, a child who didn’t ask to be born into any of this, but who has no choice but to try and forge some life for himself. His visions and dreams may not be real at all…they may just be fiction. But they are hope. And sometimes hope is enough.Acclaimed writer/artist Jeff Lemire reunites with colorist José Villarubia to bring you the next chapter in the saga of DC’s acclaimed series Sweet Tooth!
• The Dreaming: Waking Hours #4
  by G. Willow Wilson and Nick Robles.
  Published by Vertigo Comics, 2020.
  Ruin has traveled to Worlds’ End to seek help from the denizen of the Dreaming who set him free in the first place…unfortunately, Brute and Glob have followed him there-on the orders of Dream himself! And back in the Dreaming, Lindy has taken on the challenge of discovering who the “true” Shakespeare is, via a staging of the apocryphal play The Birth Of Merlyn. But when you tell a tale inside the Dreaming, it has a strange way of becoming very real indeed…

COMICS CORNER | DC UNIVERSE NEW WEEKLY RELEASES May 11, 2021