DC Announces Their 2010 Event Comic: War of the Supermen

DC’s The Source blog announced today that their 2010 ‘event’ comic will be a follow-up to this year’s World of New Krypton series, called War of the Supermen.

In the current storyline taking place in the Superman comics, Superman is now living on New Krypton, and has left Earth in the hands of Nightwing, Flamebird, Mon-El and the Guardian. Animosity has bred between the two worlds, and things are set to come to a head as Earth and New Kryton go to war!

The series will kick of with a #0 issue, which will be given away to fans for free, as part of the Free Comic Book Day event, held on May 1^st 2010 (much like DC did with Blackest Night #0, last year).

The series will be written by James Robinson, with internal artwork by Eddy Barrows, and will feature covers by J.G. Jones.

Superman Group Editor Matt Idelson teases that:

“WAR OF THE SUPERMEN is the culmination of literally years of stories in the Super-books, all building to a destructive conflict which can have no victors. This Free Comic Book Day #0 issue is going to show the readers that no cows are sacred, and that they don’t want to miss this event.”

As a reader who couldn’t afford to buy into the ‘New Krypton’ crossover story, I think I’ll be skipping this one. Also, I do not care for James Robinson’s writing, at all!