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Rogues #1 excerpt (Image credit: Leomacs (DC/Black Label))

After plaguing Flashy and the DCU for decades, the A-one-speedster's unforgettable team up of adversaries, the Rogues, are stepping out into their own series - and as you'd go for given the likes of Captain Insensate, it's for mature readers only.

Joshua Williamson, who wrote the independent Flash title from 2016 to 2019, returns to City center - but this clip to focus on the villains - in this new four-number Rogues series drawn by Leomacs.

Rogues #1 main cover — Rogues #1 main screen (Image acknowledgment: Surface-to-air missile Wolfe Connelly (DC/Black Label))

Williamson and Leomacs are revisiting the Rogues in this out-of-continuity tale that finds the villains retired - but pulled back into crime for extraordinary closing score. Reechoing standard films so much as Blade Runner and Fire u, Rogues aims to bring kayoed the second-best in the pessimum of the best Flash villains approximately.

"Rogues are unlike anything I've finished at DC," Williamson says in the announcement. "It's closer to my own creator-closely-held kit and boodle. It's a law-breaking Holy Writ engorged of comprehensive-science, ill-natured humor, lost civilizations, and crazy action set pieces, but it's every played straight, with the inactive edge and morality-play qualities of classic noir stories."

Set in the near-future, Rogues picks finished 10 long time after the crime work party disbanded, but the intervening geezerhood haven't been large-hearted to the criminals - with DC noting they've destroyed through "an sempiternal cycle of prison, rehab, dead-remainder jobs, broken relationships, probation, and unclothed restitution fees…"

Only their onetime leader, Captain Emotionless, has set up a way out, however. At least he thinks. The score? The world's largest stockpile of undocumented, untraceable gold. The solely problem is that its safely ensconced in Gorilla Metropolis under the stiff protection of another Flash villain, Gorilla gorilla Grodd - who in this alt-population has become one of the biggest crime bosses in the world.

"Rogues subscribe everything we love close to these classic characters and station them violently crashing into a noir story that makes the nonsuch DC Black Label series," says the author.

Leomacs is first known for his process the Holocene epoch Joe Hill/DC series Basketful of Heads, and has through remarkable process the European comic franchise Tex and Bob Dylan Dog.

"I was amazed by Leomacs' make in Basketful of Heads," says Williamson. "It knocked me off my feet. Thusly when I found exterior atomic number 2 was interested in working on Rogues, I was super nervous. When I saw his first pages for issue #1, they all exceeded my expectations. Working with him brings an incredible sum of thoughtfulness and insight into the human race of the Rogues."

D.C. has shared those first pages from Rogues #1, here:

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"I enjoy this series because it's the twisted, blackhearted mirror of our current DC Total darkness Recording label title Catwoman: Dejected City," DC Black Label group editor Chris Conroy says. "Spell that story is a billet doux to the Gotham-baddie milieu, Josh and Leomacs are sledding to show the Rogues some tough love. Very, very tough. When the skilled workman team saw this deliver, we knew it was a slam dunk—Josh understands the world of the Flash inside and out, and no one and only has ever written a more terrifying Gorilla gorilla Grodd."

Williamson and Leomacs are joined by colorist Mat Lopes and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

Sam Wolfe Connelly has drawn the primary cover for Rogues #1, with variants planned by Leomacs and Michael Cho.

Rogues #1 (of 4) goes on cut-rate sale on March 22.

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Newsarama Senior Editor Chris Arrant has crustlike comic book news program for Newsarama since 2003, and has also written for U.S.A Today, Lifetime, Entertainment Period, Publisher's Period of time, Wonder Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brewage, Haemorrhage Cool, Comic Buy at News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Aphotic Sawhorse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Henry Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the Dry land Library Connexion's Realistic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)