Warning! Spoilers for Rogues #1 by DC Comics
This March, Joshua Williamson and Leomacs are teaming up for a brand new Captain Cold-starring Black Label series, Rogues. On Thursday, DC Comics revealed the four-issue prestige format limited series that will see Captain Cold lead DC's greatest Rogues on one last mission. The series will take place ten years after the Rogues disbanded and is set to be a violent, neo-noir story starring some of DC's most iconic villains.
The Rogues are one of the greatest supervillain groups in the DC Universe. Consisting of some of the Flash's biggest adversaries, the group often takes on the speedster, combining their skills, tech, and powers to make a surprisingly effective team. Members include Captain Cold, the Pied Piper, the Weather Wizard, Mirror Master, Heat Wave, Golden Glider, the Trickster, Captain Boomerang, Gorilla Grodd, and Top. Now, the villains are going for one last score in a Black Label series that will see the Rogues reform after more than a decade after the group went their separate ways.
On Thursday, DC Comics revealed a new Rogues limited series, a four-issue Presitge Format DC Black Label comic from Joshua Williamson (Justice League Incarnate) and Leomacs (Hill House Comics' Basketful of Heads). The series will pick up ten years after the Rogues disbanded, with members experiencing different kinds of troubles over time - including addiction, broken relationships, or prison time. Captain Cold will attempt to pull the Rogues out of their struggles by proposing a mission that will make them richer than ever before. However, the task is incredibly dangerous, as they plan to steal the world's largest stockpile of untraceable gold. Their mission will take them to Gorilla City, where they'll attempt to rob Gorilla Grodd, who runs the largest crime syndicate on Earth.
Check out a preview of the series below with Rogues book one's cover from illustrator Sam Wolfe Connelly. The first issue will also feature a variant cover from Leomacs and a 1:25 variant from Michael Cho.
Check out an official synopsis for the Rogues limited series here.
Ten years ago, the Rogues disbanded and went their separate ways. But time hasn’t been kind to the former blue-collar super-criminals. Caught in an endless cycle of prison, rehab, dead-end jobs, broken relationships, probation, and bottomless restitution fees, the Rogues are sick of paying for their crimes. Luckily, Captain Cold has a plan. One last job that will leave them all richer than their wildest dreams and free from their past…if they can survive. The Rogues plan to steal the world’s largest stockpile of undocumented, untraceable gold. But to pull off this heist, they’ll need to head into the heart of Gorilla City and rob Gorilla Grodd himself, a super-villain now turned ruthless boss of the largest crime syndicate on Earth. This DC Black Label series presents the Rogues as you’ve never seen them before, taking on a neo-noir heist guaranteed to make readers’ blood run cold.
Williamson revealed Rogues isn't like anything he's done before at DC Comics, calling it a crime book with "humor," "super-science" and "crazy action set pieces."
Rogues are unlike anything I’ve done at DC. It’s closer to my own creator-owned works. It’s a crime book full of super-science, dark humor, lost civilizations, and crazy action set pieces, but it’s all played straight, with the dark edge and morality-play qualities of classic noir stories. Rogues take everything we love about these classic characters and send them violently crashing into a noir story that makes the ideal DC Black Label series.
Williamson added he was "amazed" by Leomac's work in Basketful of Heads and that he completely exceeded his expectations on the new Black Label series. Captain Cold and the rest of the Rogues will return when Rogues #1 from DC Comics comes to comic book stores on March 22, 2022.