The Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium event is bringing the classic DC Comics team back into the spotlight. But they won't be the only famous superheroes alive in DC's future... now that an elderly Supergirl has been revealed in preview pages from the first issue.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis is being backed up by an all-star team of artists for both halves of the two-part Millennium relaunch, establishing a new timeline for the DC Universe's future before the Legion of Superheroes makes their full debut in their own series. To do it, they're taking readers on a tour spanning 1,000 years of the DC Universe. Fittingly, it's Jim Lee personally providing the artwork to give the Legion their red carpet return, and the new images the publisher has released are guaranteed to get fans excited. Both for the future heroes they already know... and glimpses of a Super future seen for the very first time.
Bendis and artist Ryan Sook will be leading the charge when the Legion series officially kicks off in November, but for now, the common thread through both time periods and artists in Millennium will be the unnamed, newly immortal heroine. That's a mystery fans will need to wait to see explored, but now that Jim Lee's work on the first interior pages has been released, fans can take a look inside before the full issue arrives on September 4th:
Bendis clarifies to EW that the woman in these pages is Supergirl after becoming President, living at least some time into the future of the DC Universe alongside our heroine. The futuristic skyline and Super-suits on display guarantees the House of El will play some role in the earlier portion of this Legion set-up. Based on comments Bendis has made in DC's official, in-comic preview of Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium, fans may have at least one more future version of a superhero to look forward to meeting--with a "different perspective" on the shape of DC's future:
We definitely wanted to do some kind of special event that leads up to [Legion]... It tells us the story of all the DC futures, and it also tells us how the icons survived, and what they changed into, and why they're so important to the Legion, and how the Legion will now reflect that back to us. Also-there's a character from the 21st century in the 31st century with a perspective that is different from everyone else's.
We'll keep our fingers crossed that this is only the first of many familiar and iconic DC legacies visited in the futures of Millennium, but fans won't have to wait long to find out for themselves. Check out the full solicitation details and plot synopsis for the issue below:
- LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: MILLENNIUM #1 (2019)
- Release date: September 4th, 2019
- Written by: Brian Michael Bendis
- Art by: Jim Lee, Dustin Nguyen, Andrea Sorrentino, Andre Araujo, Others
- Cover by: Ryan Sook
- Brought to you by some of comics' greatest talents, this epic story spans the course of 1,000 years and, for the very first time, connects all of DC's future timelines! Starring the unlikeliest of DC heroes as she learns to cope with newfound immortality and roams through the disparate societies of Batman Beyond, Kamandi and Tommy Tomorrow, wrestling with her own inner demons and desperately trying to find her purpose in an ever-changing world. Do not miss this truly unique take on tomorrow's DC Universe, all leading up to a special launch on the millennium!
Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1 begins the mystery when it hits comic book stores and participating digital retailers on September 4th, 2019. Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #2 completes the event October 2nd, and the full series launching with Legion of Super-Heroes #1 coming on November 6th.
Source: EW