Full Villains Month Breakdown

Earlier this week, DC Comics announced that this September will be Villains Month, a special event in which all titles in The New 52 will be replaced by Villain-centric books. What happens when the heroes of the DC Universe fall and there’s nobody left to stop the villains from taking over? Find out this fall during Villains Month, which will spotlight 52 of the DC Universe’s biggest rogues in their own one-shots.

Today, take a more in-depth look at Villains Month by checking out specifically which big bads will be taking over. Below, find a comprehensive breakdown of where you can check out the 3D motion image covers and full solicitation text for each of the Villains Month books, and sound off in the comments section about which ones you’re looking forward to most!

  • BUZZFEED exclusively announced Villains Month and revealed select GIFs of the event’s 3D motion image covers.
  • USA TODAY exclusively announced FOREVER EVIL, the seven-part mini-series that sets into motion this first New 52 universe-wide crossover event, and interviewed the creative team of writer Geoff Johns and artist David Finch.
  • THE HUFFINGTON POST exclusively announced the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Matt Kindt about Deadshot.
  • MTV GEEK exclusively announced the GREEN LANTERN family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Robert Venditti about Relic.
  • IGN exclusively announced the SUPERMAN family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Scott Lobdell about H’El.
  • THE NEW YORK POST exclusively announced the BATMAN AND ROBIN family of titles for Villains Month.
  • MAXIM exclusively announced the SWAMP THING family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Charles Soule about Arcane.
  • NERDIST exclusively announced the EARTH 2 family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Paul Levitz about Desaad.
  • GAWKER’s KOTAKU exclusively announced the GREEN ARROW family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Jeff Lemire about Count Vertigo.
  • CRAVE ONLINE exclusively announced the DETECTIVE COMICS family of titles for Villains Month.
  • COLLIDER exclusively announced the JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Ann Nocenti about Creeper.
  • ZAP2IT exclusively announced the ACTION COMICS family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Michael Alan Nelson about Cyborg Superman.
  • NEWSARAMA exclusively announced the FLASH family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Brian Buccellato about Grodd.
  • COMIC VINE exclusively announced the TEEN TITANS family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Marv Wolfman about Trigon.
  • GAMMA SQUAD exclusively announced the WONDER WOMAN family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Brian Azzarello about First Born and writer John Ostrander about Cheetah.
  • COMICS ALLIANCE exclusively announced the BATMAN/SUPERMAN family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Greg Pak about Doomsday.
  • IFANBOY exclusively announced the AQUAMAN family of titles for Villains Month, and interviewed writer Tony Bedard about Black Manta.
  • The DC Comics website exclusively announced the BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT family of titles for Villains Month.
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Villains Month: JUSTICE LEAGUE

JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.1: DARKSEID
Written by GREG PAK
Art by PAULO SIQUERIA
3-D motion cover by IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO
On sale SEPTEMBER 4 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

For Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips, you conform or die. Now born into his realm is an anomaly who looks to challenge that. A trickster, who will go to any length to survive even if it means sacrificing worlds to do it—leading to an Earth shattering confrontation between The Man of Steel and a Dark Lord. 

JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.2: LOBO
Written by MARGUERITE BENNETT
Art by BEN OLIVER
3-D motion cover by AARON KUDER
On sale SEPTEMBER 11 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

Deep in the dark corridors of space, lives a black-hearted being of unimaginable power. He's witnessed horrors beyond description and committed unparalleled evils. In all of history, no being has ever been capable of as much chaos and terror as this lone individual. This is the story of the man called Lobo. He's coming. And he's bringing all of hell with him.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.3: DIAL E
Written by CHINA MIEVILLE
Art by MATEUS SANTOLUOCO, JEFF LEMIRE, JOCK, ALBERTO PONTICELLI, DAVID LAPHAM, RICCARDO BURCHIELLO and others
3-D motion cover by BRIAN BOLLAND
On sale SEPTEMBER 18 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

You can’t stop dialing! In a special VILLAINS MONTH coda to the fan-favorite DIAL H series, a lost E-dial is discovered by four young criminals on the run in Littleville. But who is chasing them? And will they figure out how to control this nefarious dial before it’s too late? Hindsight is twenty-twenty when you’re sprinting through dark alleys! This issue features 20 new villains, 20 pages of creative insanity—and 20 top artists, each drawing a page of the action!

JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.4: SECRET SOCIETY
Written by GEOFF JOHNS and STERLING GATES
Art by MANUEL GARCIA and ROB HUNTER
3-D motion cover by MIKEL JANIN
On sale SEPTEMBER 25 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

An army of super villains has been built throughout The New 52 during 2013 — but for what purpose? Learn about the villains that have paved the way for the world of FOREVER EVIL.

For more about the Villains Month JUSTICE LEAGUE titles, visit THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' HERO COMPLEX.

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5.2 Reasons Superman is a Threat

All this month on DCComics.com we're letting the more menacing and malevolent members of the DC Universe take over the site—from a villain-centric sweepstakes, to new character pages for some of the biggest and baddest, to a soon-to-be-unveiled sinister new skin, a villainous personality quiz and more.

 

Why? Well, it may be because it’s October and with Halloween on the horizon, it seemed like a good time to be a little bad. That could very well be the reason… and not because these guys are scary and menacing and may have taken our prized Dr. Fate Minimate (with removable helmet!) hostage to ensure our cooperation. Nope. Not that second part at all...

 

Anyhow, in the spirit of letting our super-villains have their say, we decided to visit one of our more popular and financially successful villains, Lex Luthor, to have a chat. And let us just say that we don't get why so many people don't trust this guy. He was super cordial and was even nice enough to make us this great tasting drink called a "Brain Softener" or something like that. We can't really remember for some reason...

 

 

But while talking, we realized what Lex says makes absolute sense. Superman is a menace! And since this revelation just happened to occur a day before our weekly column was due on the site (and since we can’t seem to remember what we were going to write about), we're instead going to give you 5.2 Reasons Superman is a Threat!

 

1. He's Incredibly Powerful

We pretty much almost all know the spiel at this point: speeding bullets, locomotives, tall buildings and all that. But there's more. Heat vision, freeze breath, nearly indestructible. And don't get us started on the whole x-ray vision thing. How many people must be suffering from some sort of radiation poisoning or something from him shooting x-rays around willy-nilly. But what if he loses it one day or decides he wants to take over? What's going to stop him? At any time he could go completely crazy-go-nuts. And if you think that he would never do that, well, he has before (like in this story and this one) and might again because...

 

 

2. Red Kryptonite

Green Kryptonite could very well kill the Man of Steel, sapping his powers and slowly poisoning him from the inside out. It's a handy thing to keep around—or so Lex assured us when showing off his Kryptonite collection. However, there are actually other forms of Kryptonite, including blue, black and red—the latter of which can cause strange and unpredictable results upon exposure. So, sure Superman may seem benevolent, but one accidental mosey by some Red-K and BAM! Giant Super-Monkey! He even once got turned into a dragon. A DRAGON!

 

 

3. He Hides Amongst Us

When Superman is not off saving cats from trees or punching bad guys into space, where does he go? We'll tell you where. He's masquerading as one of us. Sure Superman may look human, but never forget that he isn't. He's an alien with, as we mentioned, an insane amount of power. He could be standing right next to you and you wouldn't even know it. And what if he accidentally stepped on your foot? He'd shatter every bone in there. You think he'd stick around after that and blow his secret identity? Good luck getting that covered by your insurance. "How'd you break your leg?" "Superman stepped on me." Yeah, that'll work.

 

4. A FORTRESS of Solitude

It's not called "Superman's Place to Chillax" or "The Man of Steel's Man Cave." It's called the Fortress of Solitude. Why a Fortress? What is he hiding in there he doesn't want the rest of the world to see? He's hiding amongst us, pretending to be us, all while having a super secret Kryptonian fortress with untold weapons and dangers inside. For a hero who swears he's so open and trustworthy, he seems to keep a lot of secrets.

 

 

5. He Holds Back Humanity

Consistency breeds complacency. If we fall from a high-rise, don't worry, he'll catch us. If a machine goes on the fritz, he'll take care of it. If an inter-dimensional dictator shows up, we run and hide rather than fight back. How can we move forward when someone else continuously stands in our way? And how much is he really helping? He has access to technology decades ahead of anything we've seen and yet he keeps it all locked away. Think of how many advances in science and health could be made. Instead, he continues to catch us when we fall. Let's face it: he wants us to look up in the sky when he flies by. He enjoys being above us.

 

 

5.1 Massive Amounts of Property Damage

 

 

5.2 He Isn't Alone

 

 

Totally a menace! We never thought so before either, but suddenly it just kind of makes sense after our meeting. You know, we don't even remember leaving or how we got back. Weird. And now we feel awfully tired. Wonder if it was something we dran—

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