Summary
- Black Lightning returns after years of absence in a new DC solo series, leading the Justice League’s metahuman outreach initiative.
- Jefferson Pierce will appear alongside his daughters Thunder and Lightning in the new five-part miniseries.
- As part of DC’s “All In” initiative, a new solo series will introduce a redesigned Justice League and various superheroes, including Batgirl as Cassandra Cain.
DC Comics’ “All In” initiative offers readers the first Black Lightning series for years. All In is set to be DC’s latest status quo shift in the DC Universe, including a return and revamp of the Justice League. To reflect the change, numerous superheroes – including Cassandra Cain’s Batgirl – are getting brand new solo series.
2024 could be the year of Black Lightning.
As announced by Comics Beat, One of the heroes who gets their own series for All In is Black Lightning in a five-issue miniseries by Brandon Thomas and Fico Ossio. Cover art and new character designs by Ossio can be viewed below, as well as alternate covers by Sanford Greene, Taurin Clarke, and Juliet Nneka.
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BLACK LIGHTNING #1 (2024) |
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13 November 2024 |
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Brandon Thomas |
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Fico Ossio |
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Fico Ossio |
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Sanford Greene, Taurin Clarke, Juliet Nneka |
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Black Lightning is back, and this time it’s a family affair! Jefferson Pierce leads the Justice League’s new metahuman initiative, helping people with powers before they can harm themselves or others – but everything changes when his own daughter, Anissa Pierce, asks him for help. With Thunder’s dangerous new powers and the new Masters of Disaster threatening coexistence between humans and metas, Black Lightning finds himself on the front lines of a culture war brewing in the suburbs of Metropolis. |
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Black Lightning #1 is currently scheduled to hit stores on November 13. Years after his last solo series and a largely absent DC action, 2024 could be Black Lightning’s year.
Black Lightning is back in a new DC All-In solo series
Available in comic shops and digital stores from November 13th
As DC’s All In experiment gets closer to its official release, DC has already revealed the cast for Justice League Unlimited and its members include Black Lightning. Black Lightning has been a member of the Justice League in the past, but this time he will be given a new, significant role. His role in the JLU – he will be the head of the League’s metahuman outreach initiative – will be a focus of his new solo series. Black Lightning will be joined in his escapades by his two daughters Anissa and Jennifer Pierce – the superheroes Thunder and Lightning.
Justice League Unlimited
by Mark Waid and Dan Mora will be published by DC Comics this November. Black Lightning will star in the series.
Thomas tells Comics Beat how “very personal” For Jefferson Pierce, this will be a journey as his daughters are involved. He hints that Jefferson’s eldest daughter Jennifer will change her powers after the events of the current DC story “Absolute Power”.. Although this fact is currently still a mystery, Thomas also promises that “A mysterious rival consolidates his power and legitimacy by weaponizing public opinion, declaring that ‘(Amanda) Waller was right’ to fear these power-hungry gods.”
The first Black Lightning series in years could put him at the forefront of DC
Jefferson Pierce returns to form
Black Lightning’s first appearance in DC Comics is in Black Lightning #1, his first ongoing series by Tony Isabella in 1977. The series lasted 11 issues before being canceled as part of the DC Implosion initiative in 1978. The 12th issue did not appear until long after the original series – in the 1980s The best comics in the world #260. Jefferson didn’t get another series of the same name until 1995. Black Lightning Series that was also written by Isabella until he left the project due to internal conflicts at DC. The series was canceled in 1996.
The original stories of Black Lightning were followed in 2009 by the miniseries Black Lightning: Year One, then 2016 Black Lightning: Cold, dead hands limited series. Obviously, and despite his often large role in team books, Black Lightning’s main appearances are few and far between, and his recent appearances at DC are just as rare. However, his reappearance in DC storylines – followed by a new position in the Justice League – bodes well for the future. His new solo series and new status in the League could be just what is needed to Black Lightning back to a larger presence in the world of DC.
Black Lightning #1 will be available from DC Comics on November 13, 2024.
Source: Comics Beat
Black Lightning
Black Lighting is a live-action superhero and science fiction drama created by Salim Akil. It stars Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce, a high school principal who used to be the enigmatic superhero Black Lighting. The series revolves around Pierce being forced to come out of retirement and explore his superhero persona once again.
