New Dark Knight III Variant Cover Featuring Wonder Woman Revealed

Joshua Middleton has revealed his variant cover for Dark Knight III: The Master Race.

Middleton’s cover was created as part of the “retailer variant” program, and will be sent to Madness Games & Comics in Plano, TX.

Middleton explained in the post to his blog that he was asked to include female characters in his cover, so he used Carrie Kelly as Robin from The Dark Knight and Wonder Woman from The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

I was asked to include female characters, but I only read THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS as a teenager and spared myself the sequel, so I was only familiar with the Carrie Kelly Robin. My editor suggested THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN’s Wonder Woman, so that is what we have here.

Drawn by hand with Photoshop color as usual. I debated trying to paint this one traditionally, but I didn’t have quite as much time as I would have liked to allow for the inevitable painting disasters and subsequent repair work, so I decided to stick with digital but to try to stay loose and not fuss over every pixel. It turned out to be a lot of fun to work on.

Check out the full cover below. Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 goes on sale Nov. 25.