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Captain Cold and the Rogues Travel a Dark and Gritty Path to Their Last Big Score in Rogues, an All-New DC Black Label Series!
In March, one of DC’s best loved and most prolific writers, Joshua Williamson Robin, Deathstroke Inc., Justice League Incarnate, Infinite Frontier and Batman.) joins forces with brilliant artist Leomacs (Hill House Comics’ Basketful of Heads), to bring Central City’s most dangerous citizens out of retirement for one last score in Rogues, a gritty four-issue Prestige format DC Black Label limited series.
Williamson, who makes his mark on every series he writes, had this to say about his upcoming book: “Rogues is unlike anything I’ve done at DC. It’s closer to my own creator-owned works. It’s a crime book full of super-science, dark humor, lost civilizations, and crazy action set pieces, but it’s all played straight, with the dark edge and morality-play qualities of classic noir stories. Rogues takes everything we love about these classic characters and sends them violently crashing into a noir story that makes the ideal DC Black Label series.”
“LEOMACS WORK KNOCKED ME OF MY FEET!”
Joshua Williamson
Williamson’s excitement wasn’t just reserved for his own writing - he had plenty of good things to say about his collaborator, distinctive art style, too! “I was amazed by Leomacs’s work in Basketful of Heads. It knocked me off my feet. So when I found out he was interested in working on Rogues, I was super excited. When I saw his first pages for issue #1, they completely exceeded my expectations. Working with him brings an incredible amount of thoughtfulness and insight into the world of the Rogues.”
But what’s the pitch? Read on:
Ten years after the blue-collar super-criminals The Rogues (The Flash’s Rogues Gallery) disbanded and went their separate ways, they find themselves caught in an endless cycle of dead-end jobs, prison, rehab, broken relationships, probation and endless restitution fees. Time has not been kind and they’re sick of paying for their crimes.
THE ROGUES ARE SICK OF PAYING FOR THEIR CRIMES
But Captain Cold has a plan.
One last job that will leave them richer than their wildest dreams…
And free from their pasts. If they can survive.
Cold brings the Rogues a plan to steal the world’s largest stockpile of undocumented, untraceable gold. But to pull this heist off, they’ll have to head into the heart of Gorilla City and rob the ruthless super-villain head of the largest criminal syndicate on Earth. The Rogues are going to rob Gorilla Grodd….
THIS IS THE ROGUES AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM
This DC Black Label series presents the Rogues as you’ve never seen them before, taking on a neo-noir heist guaranteed to make readers’ blood run cold.
“JOSH AND LEOMACS ARE GOING TO SHOW THE ROGUES SOME TOUGH, TOUGH LOVE.”
Chris Conroy, Editor, DC Comics
“I love this series because it’s the twisted, blackhearted mirror of our current DC Black Label title Catwoman: Lonely City,” said DC group editor Chris Conroy. “While that story is a love letter to the Gotham-villain milieu, Josh and Leomacs are going to show the Rogues some tough love. Very, very tough. When the editorial team saw this pitch, we knew it was a slam dunk—Josh understands the world of the Flash inside and out, and no one has ever written a more terrifying Gorilla Grodd.”
Book one of this four-issue Prestige format limited series arrives in comic book stores and participating digital retailers on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 (Wednesday 23rd March in the UK). Illustrator Sam Wolfe Connelly provides the main cover, with a variant cover by series artist Leomacs and a 1-in-25 ratio variant cover by Michael Cho. Visit your local comic book store for availability and preordering.
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