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DC confirms an earlier Bleeding Cool account from last year that Dan Slott will be writing Superman Unlimited drawn by Rafael Albuquerque
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Back in November 2024 , Bleeding Cool reported the wordthatDan Slottwould be write Superman for DC Comics in 2025 . This will be the first DC Comics title that Dan Slott has written for decade as a Marvel exclusive author . Back in 2016 , Dan Slott told Bleeding Cool , " Last meter my contract came up , DC asked me to come over specifically to spell Superman AND Batman strip , " but that " I ’m under a Marvel Exclusive contract for 3 twelvemonth . " take care like that is now up , withSuperman Unlimitedby Dan Slott andRafael Albuquerquelaunching inn April and part of the movie - accompanyingSummer Of Supermaninitiative . We also learned that DC Comics will be offering aDC All - In Free Comic Book Day Special Edition , including a ten - page prelude of their run .
" DC today announced a unexampled on-going comic Scripture serial , Superman Unlimitedby Dan Slott and Rafael Albuquerque , launching in May 2025 . Dan Slott , know for his heroic world - construction as the writer ofAmazingSpider - Man , Fantastic Four , Silver Surfer , She - Hulk , Mighty Avengers , Superior Spider - Manand more , makes his DC ongoing laughable book serial publication entry withSuperman Unlimited . Superman Unlimitedwill be a force back force and fundamental statute title in DC ’s upcoming All In " Summer of Superman " publishing initiative , along with DC’sAction ComicsandSupermancomic book serial , and more . attend for more " Summer of Superman " intelligence in the coming weeks!Superman Unlimited#1 will be useable at local laughable book store and online retailers on Wednesday May 21 , and the new ongoing series will plunge with a 10 - Thomas Nelson Page prelude by Slott and Albuquerque inDC All In 2025 FCBD Special Edition#1 on Saturday , May 3 , as part of DC ’s Free Comic Book Day computer programing . This is the perfect prison term for both steady comic Word of God referee and new reader to jump on board for an all - fresh epoch for Superman !
" He ’s the first and the outstanding superhero of all - time , and I ’ve been expect my whole life to say stories about him , " say Slott , " Not just because of all the awe-inspiring powers he has , but because of who he is inside . Rafael Albuquerque and I are going to take him — and you — to blank space you ’ll need to escape to every month . Millions of surprising ideas for Superman , Lois , the patronise mold , classic rogues , and all - new friends and enemy too . If you ’ve never say a Superman book , a DC rule book , oranycomic book before — or if you ’ve been a Superman fan your intact lifetime — you could n’t need for a better post to take the spring and go all in thanSuperman Unlimited#1 . "
To recoil off DC’sSuperman Unlimitedseries in May , a monumental extermination - level Kryptonite asteroid showers Superman ’s greatest weakness down upon the earth , produce an arms race for the newfangled most worthful resource on the major planet : Green K. The greater availability of Kryptonite in the DC Universe changes the counterbalance of power in the vicious conglomerate of Metropolis and across the globe : Intergang , under raw leadership , is on the rise , with practically all their invertebrate foot soldier carry at least one clip of Kryptonite bullets on them . The asteroid left monolithic Kryptonite deposit to be mined , and it houses unlimited revulsion yet to be unpacked . To survive , Superman will need to forge Modern alliances , newfangled technical school and young tactics if he hopes to carry on his quest for truth , judge and a better tomorrow!Superman Unlimitedwon’t just provide Superman ’s nemeses with near - unlimited Kryptonite : theDaily Planetgets an upgrade . A merger with a Modern incarnation of Morgan Edge ’s Galaxy Communications boom theDaily Planetbrand into a multimedia system news platform with a cable news channel , website , strong societal media bearing , and — yes — Lois Lane is still editor in chief . Daily Planetregulars Jimmy Olsen , Ron Troupe , Cat Grant and Steve Lombard will staff satellite branches across the DC universe , create a orbicular internet . Behind it all is the tech savvy of a unexampled IT specialist from Gorilla City , King Solovar ’s goddaughter , Tee - Nah .
" Superman Unlimitedadds to the foundation of DC ’s Superman comics in the same way Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness’sSuperman / Batmandid in the early 2000s , " said DC group editor Paul Kaminski . " Superman Unlimitedwill capture the big , fun , luxuriously - flying adventures that Superman is eff for , while also put up bighearted moment for DC ’s Superman - touch on comedian with the first appearance of a monumental young Kryptonite deposit . Imagine a world where Superman is stopping a bank looting , but every weapon is packed with Kryptonite ammo and every piffling criminal carries a Kryptonite shiv . This is a globe of unlimited peril on a floor that Superman , and DC ’s Superman family of character , has never faced before . "
" We just launchedJustice League Unlimitedin the fall , and Mark Waid and Dan Mora are telling a tale of unlimited Super Heroes in that on-going serial , " carry on Kaminski . " In contrast , Slott and Albuquerque’sSuperman Unlimitedis a tale of outright Super - Villains that are topnotch - charged by Kryptonite . Green K is everywhere . Superman is going to need to get to wreak and accommodate to survive . Every line of Dan ’s pitch is pack with surprise and every line Rafa draws is stunning … 2025 is sincerely run short to be Superman UNLIMITED . "
Superman Unlimited#1 , written by Dan Slott with art and cover by Rafael Albuquerque and Marcelo Maiolo , will issue on May 21 , 2025 . principal cover will retail at $ 4.99 US while visiting card neckcloth random variable will retail at $ 5.99 US.DC All In 2025 FCBD Special Edition#1 will publish on Saturday May 3 , offered for free while supplies last at participating comical book stock .
DC ’s " Summer of Superman " comic books will feature limited and ongoing series starring Superboy , Supergirl , Krypto , and more , and the event will play up DC ’s deep roster of Superman - pertain characters . Stay tuned for more amusing book announcement to followSuperman Unlimited .
Now , rent ’s view for Lex Luthor swapping bodies with Clark Kent , to give us the Superior Superman …
Over twenty year ago , Dan Slott was writingScooby - Doo , Looney TunesandPowerpuff Girls , Batman Adventures , Superman AdventuresandJustice League Adventuresbefore writing the very darkArkham Asylum : In Living Hellfor DC in 2003 . His follow - up forJLA Classifiedwas written in 2004 but only published in 2007 . At this point , he had sign an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics , which he had been working under ever since , first writing She - Hulk and then writingAmazing Spider - Man . He may have written more Spider - Man comedian than anyone else and hatful of other Marvel Comics since and afterwards , such asTony Stark : Iron Manleading up toIron piece 2020andFantastic Fourwith theReckoning War . He recently take back to the Spider - Man books withSpider - Verse , Superior Spider - ManandSpider - Boy , but it look like these comics may not be the ones that Marvel Comics demands an sole deal over .
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