Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. by Jeff Lemire

liaison Ray Palmer, have become as much a critical piece of this series as any of the characters who follow Frankenstein into battle. The city and support staff, including U.N. City and filled it with wild concepts like the Zoo, a prison for scientific experiments gone horribly wrong and the Pit, a manufacturing facility for the aforementioned Humanids.

New Animal Man and Frankenstein #1's Coming in Sep.Lemire has taken the microcosm of S.H.A.D.E.

Either way, I’m in for issue #1.ĭC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio told me these new titles are intended to “shake up the status quo” and to take the company and its creators “out of their comfort zone,” to inspire “new, fresh” creativity. This giddy mish-mash has the potential for either delicious cleverness or disastrous offal. The writer is again Jeff Lemire, taking the Frankenstein monster and turning him/it into an action hero alongside other fictional monsters in the service of a government organization: The Super Human Advanced Defense Executive.

Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE, which may be the most below-the-radar promising of all.

Demon Knights, super-heroism set in medieval times, a premise that would have me yawning except that it’s being written by Paul Cornell, who did such a terrific job recently on Knight and Squire, and on Lex Luthor in Action Comics.

Justice League Dark, what DC terms “a band of supernatural heroes” - John Constantine, Deadman, Shade the Changing Man and Madame Xanadu (wouldn’t it be cool if they really were supposed to be a band?) – written by Peter Milligan.

Other new supernatural/fantasy/horror-themed books that will be announced by DC Comics today and scheduled to publish in September include:

Since re-workings of Swamp Thing and Animal Man are so closely associated with other, earlier writers (Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, respectively), these re-re-imaginings are bound to be both fascinating and, perhaps inevitably, subjects of debate.

This morning we start off with two highly intriguing combos: Scott Snyder, who’s been doing such strong work on American Vampire, will write a new version of Swamp Thing, and Jeff Lemire, author of one of comics’ finest current books, Sweet Tooth, is taking on Animal Man. DC Comics continues to roll out announcements of new first-issuesfeaturing famous characters and creators in striking combinations.

Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. by Jeff Lemire