DC Comics announced “Mortal Kombat X," Telltale's “Wolf Among Us” and “Wonder Woman '77” will be added to their digital downloads firsts.
DC confirmed the news during their “Digital: Download This!” panel at New York Comic Con 2014. “Mortal Kombat X” is slated for an April 2015 release, while “Wolf Among Us” and “Wonder Woman '77” will make its digital debut in December 2014.
“’Mortal Kombat X," in development by NetherRealm Studios and to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, is the next installment in the critically acclaimed game franchise which continues 25 years after the events of 2011’s Mortal Kombat X,” DC Comics said in a news release.
“The new comic book series of the same name will serve as a prequel to the game and will feature many favorite characters and the next generation of Kombatants. The series is being written by Shawn Kittelsen with interior art by Dexter Soy and covers by Ivan Reis.”
“Wonder Woman '77” was inspired by Lynda Carter’s hit television show, which premiered iin the 1970s. Marc Andreyko will write the throwback series and artist Nicola Scott will be creating the first few covers for the weekly comics.
On the print front, DC’s Batman writer Kyle Higgins spoke about the Caped Crusader’s epic “Endgame” series during the “DC Entertainment: All Access” panel.
[Spoiler ALERT: you will encounter minor spoilers from “Endgame Part 1” in the rest of this article.]
The Joker has returned and figured out a way to use Batman’s fellow Justice League members against him. However, Batman has prepared for the worst-case scenario and will not go down without a fight.
“We first started working on this story back in February. Scott and Rick were planning something else, a kind of smaller story,” Higgins told the panel crowd. “Then Scott called me and said, ‘Wait this is Batman's 75th anniversary, we need to go bigger.’ And so he pitched this story and I think it’s amazing.
“I think that its some of their best work by far…Joker is back and he’s not playing around anymore. This is Joker’s endgame, so check it out because it just keeps getting bigger and bigger…it’s pretty scary”
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