DC Comics to Relaunch Batman With New #1 Issue and New Costume

2025 is shaping up to be a monumental year for DC's Batman. Chip Zdarsky's run concludes with Batman #157, making way for Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee's Hush 2 in March. Following Hush 2, a relaunched Batman #1 will debut with a new writer, artist, and costume.

Matt Fraction (Uncanny X-Men, The Invincible Iron Man) will pen the new Batman volume, with Jorge Jimenez continuing as artist. They've created a new, vintage-inspired blue and gray Batsuit and Batmobile. Fraction stated, “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Batman. It was the first comic I ever read…Jorge and I have a very superhero-forward kind of take on Batman. We’ve got a new Batmobile, we’ve got a new costume, we’ve got new characters, and we’ve got a lot of old ones too—good and bad; all the stuff that makes Batman the coolest character in comics. We want to celebrate it all.” See the new Batsuit below:

Batman #1 releases September 2025.

DC also unveiled plans for its Superman titles. Supergirl receives a new series and costume (designed by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau), written and drawn by Sophie Campbell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The series returns Kara to Midvale. Campbell commented, “I came up in the comics industry doing mostly graphic novels that I wrote and drew myself, so doing the same with Supergirl feels like I’m returning to my storytelling roots…In creating this version of Supergirl, I’ll be drawing on some of those influences as the series unfolds.” Supergirl #1 arrives May 14th.

Action Comics will feature Mark Waid (Justice League Unlimited) and Skylar Patridge (Resonant), focusing on Clark Kent's teenage years in Smallville. Waid explains, "I start the book with Clark as a 15-year-old boy, learning to be a superhero for the first time…Skylar and I are also bringing Smallville a little more up to date—it still has that rustic feel to it, but farms don’t look like that anymore." This run begins with Action Comics #1087 in June.

Finally, Krypto gets his own five-issue miniseries, Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton, written by Ryan North (Fantastic Four) and drawn by Mike Norton (Revival). It delves deeper into Krypto's origin story. North shared, “Krypto's origin has always been done at kind of a high level…The chance to really define Krypto—to show what a little lost dog would go through if he landed all alone on a strange alien world named Earth—was really enticing…Mike Norton’s art captures exactly what needs to be ‘said’ in every scene.” Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton #1 releases June 18th.

ComicsPro also revealed Marvel's Captain America relaunch this summer, written by Zdarsky and drawn by Valerio Schiti. Further details on Godzilla's new interconnected comic book universe are also available.