DC Comics and Batman / Superman: World’s Finest #1 Spoilers and Review follows.
Can A Robin and The Doom Patrol Help Overcome The Super-Villains?!
The book has several variant covers below to supplement the main cover above.
The promise of the issue can be discerned from its solicitation.
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #1
Written by MARK WAID
Art and cover by DAN MORA
Variant covers by JIM LEE, STANLEY “ARTGERM” LAU, and JASON FABOK
1:25 “SLAP BATTLE” variant covers (2) by CHIP ZDARSKY
1:50 “HIGH FIVE” variant cover by EVAN “DOC” SHANER
1:100 “SEINFELD” variant cover by DAN MORA
Team variant cover by LEE WEEKS
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 3/15/22The Dark Knight. The Man of Steel. They are the two finest superheroes that the world has ever known…and they’re together again in an epic new series from the legendary talents of Mark Waid and Dan Mora! In the not-too-distant past, Superman’s powers are super-charged from a devastating chemical attack by the villain Metallo…and the only ally that the ultra-powerful Man of Tomorrow can turn to in this turbulent hour is Gotham’s own dark vengeance: the Batman. A nearly fatal burst of power drives Bruce Wayne to his own extreme measures to help his friend…enlisting none other than the Doom Patrol for aid. It’s the world’s greatest superheroes from the world’s greatest comic book talent in an epic comic book experience that kicks off the next big events in the DCU. Get ready, it’s time to soar.
Poison Ivy is in Metropolis and she’s followed by Batman and the OG Robin who join with Superman as…
…Metallo attacks!
He has a kryptonite heart, one of the only substances able to hurt or kill Superman, and he stabs the Man of Steel with a syringe?!
Superman is reeling from that as…
…whatever was in the vial was laced with Red Kryptonite which causes delusions and enabled the stabbing of Superman’s impenetrable skin in the first place.
The Doom Patrol came onto the scene and…
…Superman mistakes them for Zod, Ursa and Non…
…with the delusions extending to include battlesuit Lex Luthor.
The book ends with Superman subdued, encased in steel as another seeming side effect of the kryptonite exposure, as…
…the leader of the Doom Patrol preps for operating on Superman, to remove the kryptonite that is poisoning him, by using kryptonite medical instruments?!
The Pulse:
A really refreshing debut issue. Equal parts fun and epic. Amazing art. Looking forward to more. 9 out of 10.
