On Tuesday, DC announced Joker: The World, a spiritual successor to the Batman book with the same subtitle. For those of you who haven’t read or heard about these books, let me catch you up to speed. Joker: The World will be a one-shot anthology with 13 stories, each set in a different country from around the world. There’s a little something else though, as each story is also handled by a creative team from the country it takes place in!
We’ll be getting stories from the US, Spain, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Czech Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Cameroon, Poland, and Argentina, which gives us 13 stories altogether. We’ve been told some of the people who’ll be working on it, including Geoff Johns, who I’m sure needs no introduction. The other talent will include:
- Satoshi Miyagawa, author of some of the DC manga titles such as Superman: Meshi and One Operation Joker, representing Japan
- David Rubin, an artist on Dark Horse’s Ether, representing Spain
- German Peralta, who illustrated for the rebirth Green Arrow, representing Argentina
- Alvara Fong Varela, representing Mexico
- Jason Fabok, the artist behind The Three Jokers, who will presumably be illustrating Johns’ story
That’s all the information we have for now, with more updates between now and September. The book will be released on September 17 in all the countries previously mentioned.
