Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. This edition focuses on DC’s July 2025 solicitations. Hit the links for more information.
The Gotham City Sirens will reunite in July for another weekly miniseries, this one subtitled “Unfit for Orbit.” Poison Ivy, Catwoman and Harley Quinn target a new space-themed nightclub in Gotham, which leads to a confrontation with the club’s owner — Despero.
Leah Williams, who wrote last year’s Gotham City Sirens miniseries, returns for this five-part series, working with artist Haining. Terry and Rachel Dodson provide the main covers for each issue:
The first issue will also feature variant covers by Noobovich, Helen Mask and Kyuyong Eom, as seen above. And here are the covers for issues 2 and 3:
Each issue will also have a connecting variant cover by Guillem March:
DC promises “special appearances by deadly DJs, hunky alien hotties, dancers dressed as aliens, mutant failures, one wild UFO, and lots and lots of fire!” The first issue arrives July 2, with subsequent issues arriving each week in July.
In the wake of the “We Are Yesterday” crossover that’s running through Justice League Unlimited and World’s Finest right now comes Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1 by Mark Waid, Marc Guggenheim and Cian Tormey.
If you’ve been reading the crossover, you know that it involves time travel, and when a mysterious new enemy starts killing time travelers , it’s up to a ragtag team of time-displaced heroes to save them. If you’re wondering how that might involve Guggenheim, who worked on the CW DC shows, well, DC is already using the name Legends of Tomorrow to describe this new group, which will include Batman Beyond, Helena Wayne and Gold Beetle.
“What’s this? A Legends of Tomorrow reference? What could that all be about, I wonder…,” Guggenheim teased in his newsletter.
The special will lead into the next DC All In event. It arrives July 20 and features variant covers by Jorge Fornes, Nathan Szerdy, Fernando Blanco and Mark Buckingham.
Speaking of time-displaced heroes, DC revisited the Gotham by Gaslight world last year with Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age. Andy Diggle and Leandro Fernandez will return to that world in July with Batman Gotham by Gaslight: A League for Justice:
Bear witness to the formation of a new kind of Justice League in a steam-powered adventure that will bring these once-familiar heroes from the open plains of the Midwest to the freezing Arctic as they unravel the mystery of alien artifacts from the Kryptonian Age.
The first issue arrives July 9. It’ll have variant covers by Bill Sienkiewicz, Seba Fiumara and Christopher Mitten.
Spinning out of the current The Flash storyline “Bad Moon Rising” comes the appropriately titled The Flash: Bad Moon Rising Special #1 by Alex Paknadel and Daniel Bayliss. The story involves Eclipso trying to black out the sun, and he’s recruited The Flash’s Rogues as his generals — which will be the focus of this special.
DC’s seasonal anthology line continues this summer with the almost-too-cleverly titled DC’s Kal-El-Fornia Love special. Featuring a cover by Bernard Chang, the special will contain stories by Bryan Q. Miller, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Juni Ba, Travis Mercer and more, starring members of the Superman Family as they visit California.
It comes out July 30 and will feature variant covers by Marcio Takara and Mahmud Asrar.
Speaking of summer, traditionally it was the time of year when you could expect to see annuals from DC and Marvel, and July will bring two of them from DC. Starting with the Titans, as Phil Jimenez writes and draws a story focused on Donna Troy:
Donna Troy reflects on the many loves and lives that shaped her as she cuts a trail through New York City to meet her estranged father for the very first time. But what awaits her at the end of her journey will shock Donna and readers alike!
It’ll feature variant covers by Daniel Sampere and Joelle Jones, and it arrives July 30.
Nightwing is also getting an annual in July, by Dan Watters and Francesco Francavilla. Both creators have a solid background in horror comics, which seems to be coming in to play here:
Commissioner Maggie Sawyer digs into the past crimes of the mysterious Olivia Pearce—and discovers far more than she bargained for when she uncovers the existence of a strange and terrible entity. What is the Zanni, where does it come from…and what are its true plans for Nightwing?
It also arrives July 30.