DC Universe New Weekly Releases 1 June, 2021

There are some beginnings and some endings this week in the new releases on DC Infinite Universe. John Constantine: Hellblazer is ending with this issues as is Suicide Squad. But then there are some new entries that look pretty interesting including something that could prove pretty enlightening – The Other History of the DC Universe and Dark Nights: Death Metal: The Multiverse Who Laughs which could be pretty bizarre.
Anyway, here’s the new stuff I found this week:

DC Universe Infinite New Releases June 1, 2021:

• Action Comics #1027
• Batman Beyond #49
• Batman/Superman #14
• Dark Nights: Death Metal: The Multiverse Who Laughs #1
• Detective Comics #1031
• Flash #766
• Justice League Dark #28
• Legion of Super-Heroes #11
• Red Hood and the Outlaws #51
• Suicide Squad #11
• The Last God #10
• The Other History of the DC Universe #1
• Wonder Woman #767
• John Constantine: Hellblazer #12

TOP RELEASES OF THE WEEK

Only 14 new comics released today (last week had 9).  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 5 issues that I wanted to look further into.

• John Constantine: Hellblazer #12
  by Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  FINAL ISSUE. John Constantine faces his final reckoning with the older version of himself who’s been seeding magical chaos all around England, while the lives of all his friends hang in the balance…and that is not a good situation for John Constantine’s friends. Can the evil in John’s heart ever be contained? Or will it reach out and destroy the one life he would give anything not to corrupt?
• The Last God #10
  by Philip Kennedy Johnson and Ricardo Federici.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  At the edge of creation lies the Black Stair. And beyond it, amidst the void, He waits. Mol Uhltep, the Last God. This is the tale of those who claimed to slay him, and the world they doomed with their lies. Many falsehoods have been spoken of the great hero Tyr and his fellowship of companions, the Godslayers, and their supposed defeat of Mol Uhltep. Many terrible crimes hidden away by years of deception. Now, at long last, the truth about what happened 30 years ago atop the Black Stair is revealed. The final act of book one of “The Fellspyre Chronicles” begins here!
• The Other History of the DC Universe #1
  by John Ridley and Alex Dos Diaz.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Let It Fall) examines the mythology of the DC Universe in this compelling new miniseries that reframes iconic moments of DC history and charts a previously unexplored sociopolitical thread as seen through the prism of DC Super Heroes who come from traditionally disenfranchised groups. This unique new series presents its story as prose by Ridley married with beautifully realized color illustrations from a selection of exciting illustrators and comics artists. Alex Dos Diaz provides art for #1, which follows the story of Jefferson Pierce, the man who will one day become Black Lightning, as he makes his way from being a young track star to a teacher and, ultimately, to his role as a hero. Future issues focus on characters such as Karen and Mal Duncan, Tatsu Yamashiro and Renee Montoya. Extensively researched and masterfully executed, THE OTHER HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE promises to be an experience unlike any other. You may think you know the history of the DC Universe…but the truth is far more complex. THE OTHER HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE isn’t about saving the world—it’s about having the strength to simply be who you are. less
• Suicide Squad #11
  by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  FINAL ISSUE. The explosive final issue is here! Task Force X has been through hell and back. Now they’re the last thing standing between a human bomb and an island full of innocents. Which means that even if they win the day, there’s nowhere to run when the Justice League arrives to clean house
• Justice League Dark #28
  by Ram V and Amanda’s Nahuelpan.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  No greater cost than this! As the Justice League Dark’s losses continue to mount, all of Zatanna’s training and adventures have led to a spell that will defeat the Upside-Down Man. But there is always a price. Wonder Woman, Detective Chimp, Doctor Fate, and Man-Bat must contend with their choices and decide how they will move forward after such an explosive ending.

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