The Deadman marks the latest DC work for the acclaimed Ice Cream Man creative team of writer W. Maxwell Prince, artist Martín Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran, and letterer Good Ol’ Neon who previously produced the acclaimed Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum Black Label miniseries. With the release of The Deadman #3 today, the publisher has announced that the originally six-issue DC Next limited series has been expanded to twelve issues.
This isn’t the first time in recent years that DC has expanded miniseries due to critical and commercial success. The most obvious examples are Absolute Martian Manhunter last year and Absolute Green Arrow this year. It’s a testament to the immense reception DC has had not just from readers but comic creators themselves regarding the publisher’s innovative approach to storytelling.
Enjoy the delightfully written press release provided by the publisher below:
THE DEADMAN IN HELL! OR…
The third edition of this morbid disquisition concerning the attrition/detrition of the human condition, which, in the weekly tradition, boasts a four-color exhibition on some printer’s emission. Here, by order of an anonymous optician, watch closely this vision of our titular apparition (armed, you’ll remember, with fresh erudition) try and survive—by another’s volition—a dire and dangerous mission through the hissin’, Stygian conditions of putrid and pockmarked Perdition—a kind of new rendition (depicted as a living, breathing, country-sized conniption), which is rich in its list of sick compositions: e.g., reason’s egregious abolition; a pyrotechnic passel of pernicious seditions; hideous, bulging buck-toothed dentition; admittedly ambitious demonic deglutition…of gargoyles and ghouls in decomposition…not to mention an array of impossible physical positions that a physician might consider the work of magicians. So please accept our contrition for this rude imposition, our addled transmission this ungodly, offset-press parturition—one that we wish some brave obstetrician would bring to fruition its quick decommission.
“The response to our Deadman story has been absolutely spirit-lifting,” said W. Maxwell Prince. “We’re having so much fun giving new life to Boston Brand and his purgatorial world…and we’re not ready to give up the ghost just yet. Here’s to 6 more issues of monsters, mantras, and mystic math!”
With six additional issues from W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, and Good Ol’ Neon, Boston Brand’s journey through life, death, and the strange spaces in between is only beginning.
