COMICS: DC's Villain Month Preview Featuring Darkseid, Desaad, Two-Face And More

Huh...Bizarro looks like a dig at Grant Morrison's T-Shirt wearing Superman....

There's also a distinct lack of Joker in that Finch pinup....

These redesigns... need to be redesigned.

So these are the ones that will be included in the DC NEW 52 Villains Omnibus?

@superman7

Agree with you 100% about Ivy's new52 look.

DC villains are the best.

Ill probably end up getting all of these issues.

Zatanna must be one who rejoins Justice League Dark. She is at the edge of that cover.

This could be interesting.... I'd like to see some kind of villains Civil War as some villains are a bit on the "grey side" and others are straight up evil.

that is really cool

Love the new cyborg superman design

@MarkJulian
Yes. I have read the comic.
So you believe that the more arbitrary costume redesigns and origin rewrites of the NEW 52 are good and more importantly, serve a purpose in attracting new and younger readers?
Change in comics (over the years) is (almost) always done with an eye towards increasing readership longterm. Do you see any of this INCREASING readership longterm.
. . .
Neither do I.

Now it is true that lately, the comics industry has not cared at all about increasing LONGterm readership. They have focused entirely on the much easier goal of getting a quick shot in the arm by way of a death here, or a new number 1 there (and in too many cases, both). Any quirky curiosity plot point will do. Whether it's killing a star player; reviving a star player; redesigning a costume and reason for being; or creating a whole new sideways universe (Earth 3?) where even Sinestro wear's a Justice League motif collar.
Marvels answer (I know, "I thought we were talking about DC?) is redesign their costumes to match the cinematic universe. A move that has Black Widow wearing pretty wrist jewelry and firing automatic weapons INSTEAD of blasting baddies with her Widow's Bite. This is in the comics now. insane.
I don't care that Poison Ivy has "looked that way since the New 52 launch back in September 2011." Who cares how long it's been wrong. It's still wrong. It doesn't change the fact that her 52-costume has her looking like the fifth Power Pack kid (ya' know the one that comes back from the future furious that there aren't any carnations in her era).
She's supposed to be one with the plants and nature. Not look like an eco-terrorist who's day job could be a chemist for Wayne Industries. She's one Batman's psycho crazy arse villains. She should look it (and she used to).
By the way, this isn't about showing skin or some dark need I might have to see semi-naked women drawn on the page. IF THAT were my quest, theres plenty of places to go for that.
I'm with Black Canary ditching the fishnet.
Zantana, on the other hand, should keep 'em.
Power Girl does NOT need a hole to expose her chest.
But I digress . . .

This current trend to make heroes costumes more realistic is stoopid! They're bits of pencil. pen, and color. They're comics - NOT real people. Goodness Jack Kirby could get a job today. Poor Kamandi would be made to cover up in a Dune-like preservation/hydration kevlar battle suit. It's so MUCH more realistic. He'd need that when talking to the Giant Crab Thing.

@KryptonianAbominationClone
I can not BELIEVE what they've done to one of DC's greatest background characters. Waller is built like a tank. WHY the change . .?

Wait . . . I know. It suddenly occurred to me. Thinner, hotter Angela Bassett played her in the movies (GL). So now, OF COURSE, we need to redesign her to look more like the movie.
Continuing the bogus idea that movie goers are going to magically transform into comic buyers.
Never has happened.
Never will.
You want new comic book readers (who will intern want to go to superhero movies)? Then bring back (AND KEEP ON) a wide selection of superhero cartoons.
Forget about the toys.
Think endgame for once. Think long term.

Some of the redesigns aren't bad but I kicked my comic-reading habit when they switched to the New 52. I saw it as a good place to jump off, not jump on.
I may get some trades this winter to read, like Batman and Animal Man.

The other awful thing about the covers (Marvel's too), is they do nothing to draw me as a reader closer to make the purchase. They all want to be potential posters.
Word balloons with exaggerated threats and cries of revenge will help to draw NEW future readers in.
Stop with the poster making and ridiculous posing! Give us our exciting covers again!

@Krazy No, that's a stupid idea. I'm glad bait-and-switch covers are a thing of the past.

NOT bait and switch. Actual moments from the issue (without revealing too much of course.
But yes, NO bait and switch.

Kyos, I couldn't have said it better.

Fans are still butthurt over the New 52. Get used to it. It's evolution, baby. Change is inevitable. I actually like the Bizarro and Cyborg Superman looks. Grodd is freakin awesome and DAMN! Amanda Waller is smokin'.

So bring on the NEW NEW 52! More reboots please! This was some change. Lets have more, because more change is better. I am ready. 'Til Superman gets his underwear back, I'm done. Only Wonder Woman has been any good WITH REGARDS TO THE NEW PRIME UNIVERSE STORY-LINE CHANGES.
I am NOT saying there hasn't been some interesting stories written since DC went through "The Change." But none that needed, or couldn't have existed without, a new universe being created for them.

. . . and some comic fan whose fallen off the happy-wagon because of the NEW 52, will return and get "back into comics after not reading any for 7 years," when DC does their next big thing. It's the circle of life.
I will say, those NEW 52 fans are an aggressively opinionated lot with all the name calling they do.
It's too bad they can't express themselves without suggesting that there argumentative opposites are "whining," "butthurt," "stupid," or "bitchy."
But as long as DC made the new exercise-friendly Amanda Waller bare her cleavage, it's all good.

Not gonna lie, I dig the look of Cyborg Superman. But looking at those rotting covers made me ill.