DC Comics June 2021 Collection Solicitations

DC’s May 2021 solicitations are out and we’re here to look at the collected editions. This month is a little lighter in terms of new content but still contains a few solid collections. The majority of this list involves reprints or material that has already been released. However, it also contains a new Injustice hardcover, a collection for the latest Suicide Squad series, and a Deluxe Edition Wonder Woman comic.

• Batwoman: Elegy TP
  • Collects Detective Comics #854-860.
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • A formidable foe is sucking Gotham into her dark fantasy, and only Batwoman can bring the madwoman back to reality and save the city! By day, Kate Kane is a glamorous socialite with a troubled past. By night, she is a warrior. She is the Batwoman, Gotham City’s newest protector. Battling her at every turn of her still-young crime-fighting career is a crazed cult called the Religion of Crime. Led by a Lewis Carroll-quoting madwoman known only as Alice, they plan to turn Gotham City into a wonderland of carnage. But Alice has something special in store for the Batwoman–something that will show her everything she thought she knew about her life as a caped crusader is wrong. Is this one-woman army fighting a war she can’t win, against an enemy with more power over her than she ever could have imagined?Writer Greg Rucka (Wonder Woman, Action Comics) and artist J.H. Williams III (Batman, The Sandman: Overture) proudly present one of the most intriguing story lines DC has ever published!
• Suicide Squad: Bad Blood HC
  • Collects all 11 issues of the critically lauded maxiseries and also features a special art gallery of designs by Redondo.
  • Release Date: April 27, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Task Force X returns for its bloodiest mission yet, with a new team of unlikely villains from across the DC Universe! When the Suicide Squad is assigned to neutralize a group of international super-terrorists known as the Revolutionaries, the last thing they expect is for the survivors to join the team! Who can Squad veterans Harley Quinn and Deadshot trust when their new teammates are the very people they were sent to kill? This crew could survive the mission, but they might not survive each other—so don’t get attached. Acclaimed writer TOM TAYLOR (DCeased) reunites with celebrated Injustice collaborators BRUNO REDONDO (Justice League) and DANIEL SAMPERE (Action Comics) for the GLAAD Media Award-nominated Suicide Squad: Bad Blood. 
• Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass TP
  • Collects the Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • A multiple Eisner Award nominee, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass features the outspoken, rebellious, and eccentric 15-year-old Harleen Quinzel. With five dollars to her name, she’s sent to live in Gotham City after battling a lot of hard situations as a kid. But everything changes when Gotham’s finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in. And at first it seems like Harleen has finally found a place to grow into her most “true true,” with new best friend Ivy at Gotham High. But then Harley’s fortune takes another turn when Mama’s drag cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that’s taking over the neighborhood. Now Harleen is mad. In turning her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join Ivy, who’s campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or join The Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time. From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Steve Pugh (The Flintstones) comes a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, and how a weird kid from Gotham goes about defining her world for herself.
• You Brought Me the Ocean TP
  • Collects the You Brought Me The Ocean graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • The voices that shaped LGBTQIA+ young adult literature, Lambda Award-winning author Alex Sanchez (Rainbow Boys) and New York Times bestselling illustrator Julie Maroh (Blue Is the Warmest Color), present a new coming-out romance and origin story for Aqualad. Jake Hyde doesn’t swim–not since his father drowned. Luckily, he lives in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Yet he yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown for a college on the coast. His best friend, Maria, however, wants nothing more than to stay in the desert, and Jake’s mother encourages him to always play it safe. There’s nothing “safe” about Jake’s future–not when he’s attracted to Kenny Liu, swim team captain and rebel against conformity. And certainly not when he secretly applies to the University of Miami. Jake’s life begins to outpace his small town’s namesake, which doesn’t make it any easier to come out to his mom, or Maria, or the world. But Jake is full of secrets, including the strange blue markings on his skin that glow when in contact with water. What power will he find when he searches for his identity, and will he turn his back to the current or dive headfirst into the waves?
• Injustice: Year Zero HC The Complete Collection
  • Collects Injustice: Year Zero chapters 1-14.
  • Release Date: June 13, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • The beloved, fan-favorite series Injustice is back! And this time, with a prequel…Year Zero: “The Fall of the Old Gods”! Long before Superman had his tyranny, before Batman led the Insurgency, and even before the Justice League was still a just league—there was the JSA. A secret begins to unravel within the JSA about how one of them controversially used a mysterious amulet in back in WWII to help turn the tide of the war. Flash forward to the present, when this secret amulet is found in the hands of The Joker, and the Justice League and JSA suddenly find their teams being torn apart from the inside—is there a traitor in the room, or is someone hiding something that could ruin every DCU superhero forever? Either way, buckle up, because in true Injustice tradition, no one is safe and both heroes and villains will die!
• Wonder Woman: 80 Years of the Amazon Warrior The Deluxe Edition HC
  • Collects stories from All-Star Comics #8, Sensation Comics, #1, Comic Cavalcade #11, Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #5, #78, #98, #124, #162, #203, and #206, Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #6, #57, #73, and #170, Wonder Woman (vol. 3) #1, #13, #600, Wonder Woman (New 52) #13, Wonder Woman #750, and DC Comics Presents #41, along with new historical essays and a new cover by Jim Lee.
  • Release Date: August 31, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • For 80 years Wonder Woman has stood as a symbol of truth, justice, and equality to people everywhere! Follow along in this incredible collection as the Amazon Warrior fights for justice—starting from the first appearance of Wonder Woman through some of her most incredible battles against foes like the Cheetah and Ares.
• DC Super Hero Girls: Ghosting TP
  • Collects the DC Super Hero Girls: Ghosting graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: September 7, 2021 
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Diana Prince is the best. Usually. But these days, she’s coming in second…in history class, in gymnastics, in the race to feed Sir Isaac, the classroom newt. She could double down on training, but when her foe is getting a boost from a mystical mask, will that be enough? No, she will have to rely on her friends to help her combat this newly dangerous menace!
    • Along the way, they’ll discover why so many classmates, family members, and super-villains have gone missing. And why there are so many Cheetahs in the mix!

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