The folks at i09 scored an early look at a new DC Black Label project that’s coming out this December with the post-apocalyptic Wonder Woman: Dead Earth. The project comes from creator Daniel Warren Johnson who is doing writing and art with colors by Mike Spicer. It’s set as a four-issue prestige format miniseries.
I like the audacity of an immortal hero saying to a human, “I do this because I love you.” That line is in the first issue, actually. I was thinking, what better way to explore how much a character loves a maybe undeserving humanity than to really test the limits of where that love goes, when confronted with the harsh reality of what humanity is capable of? Within this world, humans are doing their best to survive, and when humans are trying to survive, a lot of times the worst parts of ourselves come out. So that’s on full display here in Wonder Woman: Dead Earth.
Plot Concept: Set in a world where Diana has been sleeping for centuries, the Princess of the Amazons wakes to find the world of man ravaged by nuclear war, rendered a barren wasteland. With her fellow heroes gone and the last remnants of humanity struggling to survive, Wonder Woman has to face this dead earth alone—protecting the last standing city of humankind from gigantic monsters while also uncovering the real mystery behind what caused the apocalypse in the first place.
