Writer Dan Abnett (Aquaman) has just been announced for an exclusive deal over at DC. The creator, best known for reimagining Guardians of the Galaxy with his writing partner Andy Lanning has already been announced as the writer of DC’s upcoming Aquaman series during Rebirth. Rebirth is the publisher’s brand new superhero line-wide initiative that kicked off with this Wednesday’s DC Universe: Rebirth #1. The writer just finished the Titans Hunt mini-series for DC and will also be the author of the upcoming Titans series featuring Brett Booth (The Flash) contributing artwork to the series. He will be allowed to create comics content exclusively for DC’s Vertigo creator-owned content and superhero lines.

Abnett’s Aquaman series is shipping twice-monthly from DC and includes Phil Briones (Harbinger), Scot Eaton (New Excalibur), Oscar Jimenez (Crossed: Badlands), Jesus Merino (Aquaman) and Brad Walker (Detective Comics). Titans penciller Booth is drawing the series shipping monthly from the publisher. Abnett follows in the footsteps of Joshua Williamson (The Flash), who was signed following the Rebirth announcement at WonderCon along with notable creators like Scott Snyder (Batman), Tom King (The Vision), Clay Mann (Gambit) and more.

The publisher had a quote from author Jim Lee from there official website write up that announced the deal for Abnett: “Dan Abnett is the perfect fit for Aquaman and Titans,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Jim Lee. “He skillfully balances great dialogue and high-octane action, making for great reads every time. DC is excited that he’ll be giving fans more great stories in both books as we enter into our line wide REBIRTH re-launch in June and beyond.”

Abnett chimed in with the following comment;”I was delighted by Dan DiDio’s invitation to sign exclusively with DC,” said Abnett. “My recent work for DC, on projects like He-Man, Earth 2 and Titans Hunt have been both rewarding and enjoyable, and now with Aquaman’s Rebirth in the mix, and the Titans as a new series, it seems like the ideal time to really focus on DC work and do my best to knock each and every issue out of the park.  Not that we have baseball parks in the UK. We have cricket pitches. But the point stands, anyway…”

Aquaman Rebirth #1 and Aquaman are both being published in June with the Rebirth one-shot seeing seeing print June 8 followed by issue #1 on the 22nd of the month. June 15 see’s the debut of Titans: Rebirth #1 followed by the first issue launching July 27 – this week’s DC Rebirth featured a spoiler for the title that caused DC to change the covert to Titans Rebirth #1 that is teased in the following solicit for the first issue:

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TITANS: REBIRTH #1
U.S. Price: $2.99
ON SALE 6/15

Friends. Teammates. Titans. Donna Troy, Arsenal, Garth, Lilith and Nightwing were all that and more until a mysterious force erased their memories, forcing them to forget what they could accomplish together. Reunited with their memories returned, the Titans must destroy the interdimensional demon that broke them apart and threatens reality itself.

THEY SAID IT: “Grayson and Donna were a couple of the characters I first worked on at DC, so it feels like a homecoming for me,” explains penciller Brett Booth. “I’m beyond happy!”

WARNING: Do NOT read this issue until after you read DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH #1!

7 COMMENTS

  1. Well its not like he was getting any good projects for Marvel’s cosmic stuff and his latest stuff (Guardians of Infinity) feels a bit like those two miniseries after Thanos Imperative – Dan just going thru motions.

  2. Guardians of Infinity and the latest Hercules series have been pretty bad. Hercules is the first comic in a long time I’ve quit reading mid-issue. (Some god of technology showed up and he spoke like a text message and that was the last straw.)

  3. I assume that this Exclusive contract means like always “do not work for Marvel” and that Abnett will continue his 2000AD work.

  4. Apparently the latest round of DC exclusives are ACTUALLY exclusive — no Marvel, no Dark Horse, no creator-owned. So hopefully the creatives are getting a really awesome deal out of it.

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