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January sees a Faces of Evil theme linking a good fraction of DC’s covers. I haven’t seen any promo for the event itself, but I’d bet good money that Alex Ross was involved. Back around 1999-2000 Ross proposed an art book to DC called Portraits of Villainy (the sketches for it turn up in Alex Ross galleries and interviews from time to time). Faces of Evil, as well as following the loose idea of Portraits of Villainy, also follows the cover style that Ross has been using on Justice Society of America – that of a single painted portrait against a black background. Each of January’s covers will thus feature portraits of DC’s big villains.
There are also a selection of one shots to feature particular bad guys that don’t fit into particular ongoing series, but are important for future plotlines. Of interest to JLA readers will be Faces of Evil: Prometheus #1 which, unsurprisingly, features the return of Prometheus and is a setup for James Robinson’s new Justice League spin off series. Those of you with long memories will recall that Prometheus actually appeared first in a very similar issue called New Years Evil: Prometheus #1. New Years Evil was another January event, a skip week in that case, which featured a series of villain centric oneshots. To bring this full circle: the first version of Gog appeared in New Years Evil: Gog #1. That was Mark Waid’s version which has recently been superseeded by Geoff Johns’s version of Alex Ross’s version.
The solicitations for the above issues, including spoilers, follow the break:
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