DC Comics's Five Most Exciting Post-Convergence Announcements

With DC Comics today announcing a massive new slate of titles set to launch in June following the events of Convergence, the publisher seems to have re-embraced the spirit of the New 52 relaunch.

There's a pile of books featuring characters who hadn't been published regularly for years, some titles featuring new characters or legacy characters, and much more genre diversity than they've had in the last couple of years, as the titles had drifted back to a pre-New 52 status quo of being almost exclusively traditional superhero books.

So what are we looking forward to the most? Read on...!

Batman Beyond

It's no secret I'm a fan of Dan Jurgens, but in particular I've always felt his Batman has always been underrated. One of the only corners of the DC Universe where Jurgens hasn't spent a lot of time over the years, the veteran writer/artist will head to Gotham in a big way come June with both Batman Beyond and Bat-Mite.

You can see some of his work on Batman Beyond in The New 52: Futures End, but even beyond that, just having a DC Universe-set Beyond title is worth getting excited about in general.

Obviously we don't yet know whether we'll get a Batman Beyond set in his "proper" timeline or whether he'll be stuck, either in the past or on Telos, where Convergence takes place. With a little luck, if he can't go home and keep his traditional supporting cast, he'll at least get to keep Futures End Plastique, with whom he's had a really interesting and believable relationship.

Black Canary

Of all of the characters who seem poised to get a reinvention out of this, Black Canary may be the one who will benefit the most.

With a high-profile story arc on TV's Arrow this season and no solo series in years, just the fact that there is a Black Canary #1 is exciting and overdue. More than that, though, we get a cover that's less cheesecake-y than anyone could have predicted from a title featuring this character, and a creative team with a proven track record on stuff like this.

Certainly the musical motif on this first cover is curious, and it sends off some little alarms that maybe this will be a little too inspired by Spider-Gwen...but given Fletcher's recent history it doesn't seem so unlikely he came to that honestly, and without knowing what it's about, it's hard to pass judgment too quickly.

Omega Men

One of the titles we've been saying could have been a great fit for the New 52 basically ever since the relaunch happened, Omega Men is of course perfectly timed to take some cues from another Marvel hit -- Guardians of the Galaxy. 

With Tom King behind the book, and his relatively paltry comics resume, it's hard to knwo just what could be coming from this title...and that's a huge plus.

Most fans know very little about the Omega Men to begin with, and so that curiosity can serve the title well in terms of making some noise in the run-up to the release.

Meanwhile, it gives DC a non-Green Lantern space title, which is something they're sorely missing.

Section 8

There is no part of me that will ever be unhappy when Ennis and McCrea come back to the world they built in Hitman.

Section 8 is a legitimate contender to take Quantum & Woody's title as the world's worst superhero team, and while it feels oddly out-of-place to have such a bizarre, niche title launched along with more than twenty books as part of a big, event-driven mini-relaunch, we'lll take what we can get.

Inside DC's Magical Universe

While Constantine has been rebranded to be more comics friendly -- perhaps an acknowledgment by the publisher that the future looks bleak for Matt Ryan's television iteration -- that was just the tip of the iceberg, really, as we got James Tynion's Dark Universe and titles for Doctor Fate and whatever Mystic U is (we're assuming that's got to do with Frankenstein, Amethyst or other magical characters coming out of Futures End and Convergence).

It's not ONE title, but it's exciting in its own way, and reflects the commitment to genre diversity that DC seems to be cultivating in this realignment.