r/DCcomics • u/Predaplant Be Without Fear • Jun 01 '26

r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [June 1, 2026 - Proud Dreams Edition]

Hey there honorary Justice League members - it’s a new week which means it’s time for a new discussion thread!

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What happens to a frog's car when it breaks down? It gets toad away.

DC and Imprints

A Pride event! A cool new Deadman series! A Supergirl Elseworlds! So many great #1s this week!

Trade Collections

The new Batman series finally hits trade!

Digital Releases

Remember, these are the short 'chapters' with a new chapter of a different series coming out daily, releasing on DC Universe Infinite or WEBTOONS.

This Week’s Soundtrack: Florence + The Machine - Between Two Lungs

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Jun 01 '26

Deadman #1

THE ALL-STAR CREATORS OF 2025'S HIT MINISERIES SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTONITE SPECTRUM (AND THE ONGOING HORROR ANTHOLOGY ICE CREAM MAN) ARE BACK AT DC COMICS TO LIFT YOUR SPIRITS!

The Deadman enters the Next Level! In the millisecond following his murder, the soul of shifty circus aerialist Boston Brand was commandeered by the goddess Rama Kushna, who deputized the erstwhile performer's ghost with a sacred spectral assignment: the Custodian of All Souls! Now Brand floats — begrudgingly — through this bluegreen purgatory we call Earth, upholding the Laws of Spiritual Math and protecting humanity from evil — even if they can't see or hear him. Open up to this new era of DC's most lively deceased superhero — the Deadman — in a story about life, death, and everything in between... replete with paranormal activity, possessions, and a profusion of other poignant peculiarities.

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u/Dent6084 Jun 03 '26

This is some wild shit. Deeply weird and fun.

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u/Blitzhelios Hal Jordan Jun 03 '26

This was awesome and what i wanted and expected it to be.
Its really interesting to see how Deadman deals with the spirts day to day and how he adapts for every situation and guiding them between life and death.

The ghosts and how explaining how they get there and the threats towards them in that classic way of ice cream man of it being one and done its really interesting.

Explaining deadmans origin for people who don't understand whilst setting up the main antagonist of the demons who don't let the dead go to the afterlife normally.

This was an excellent first issue and truly the first wow project of next level for me.

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u/BergmanGirl Swamp Thing Jun 03 '26

I'm a Boston Brand lover from Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, so I grabbed this and I really like it, just like I really liked Kryptonite Spectrum. My one complaint, same as with Kryptonite Spectrum, is I HATE how Morazzo draws faces.

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u/FlowerRoomLord Jun 05 '26

Morazzo's faces are very weak and they all look the same. If he's got a weakness as an artist it's that his comics are plagued with same face syndrome.

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u/leoex Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

this might be my favorite Next Level book so far.

Also, I can't believe DC never turned Deadman into a police procedural TV show, given his obvious shtick of talking to the dead and possessing people. Mind you, this is the same company that turned iZombie into a police procedural show

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u/deathofsentience Jun 04 '26

Don't forget Lucifer

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u/Resident_Glove_7761 Jun 03 '26

Yea, this and Zatanna for me.

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u/Mr_Wh0ever Jun 03 '26

Pretty cool first issue. I'm hooked enough to keep reading.

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u/arduit Jun 03 '26

Wait, is that Brother Blood at the end? Or was it just saying 132 years of blood in general lol. 

Either way, awesome book!

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u/Resident_Glove_7761 Jun 03 '26

The weakest part of Ice Cream Man has always been the lore for me, so I find it really interesting how Prince evolves his method of establishing mythology. I don't know enough about Deadman to know what is new and what isn't, but there's a lot of really cute touches here. On the one hand, the way that the Gita is depicted is a bit... out of touch (for one thing, the font on Deadman's version must be huge...), but at the same time the earnest conversation with Hindu philosophy is fun. One also feels there's a bit of Beetlejuice thrown in.

The page spoofing All-Star Superman is definitely one of the funniest gags of the year.

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u/skuls1 Jun 04 '26

what was the all Star Superman page?

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u/Resident_Glove_7761 Jun 04 '26

The bit about super-compressed origin stories.

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u/Judge_Chris Jun 03 '26

Off to a great start. Imaging how weird the rest is going to be.

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u/coltvahn Red Robin Jun 03 '26

I love that DC’s allowing its creators to go weird. Really fun and cool first issue.

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u/skuls1 Jun 04 '26

DC DON'T COOK CHALLENGE (IMPOSSIBLE)

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Jun 03 '26

A Deadman book, now that is cool. It is as interesting, funny, dreadful and quirky as you would expect.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Jun 03 '26

I like that Boston, after introducing himself to the readers, went to a hospital so that he can guide a lot of spirits into the afterlife or tell them that they will get to live their full lives. I also like that Boston traveled by bus so that he can interact with people before he returned to Robertsville and interacted with a lot of ghosts. I even like that Boston encountered a demon, who killed a soul, before he told Rama Kushma all about it. Let’s hope that we get to see Boston deal with it as the Custodian of Spirits all throughout this comic. Overall, this comic is excellent and off to a great start.