DC Comics Reveals "Punk Rock" Variant Covers Inspired By SUPERMAN Movie's Positive Message

DC Comics Reveals "Punk Rock" Variant Covers Inspired By SUPERMAN Movie's Positive Message

DC Comics has announced a line of "Punk Rock" variant covers for upcoming issues of Action Comics, Superman, Supergirl, and more, and they're all inspired by the Superman movie's kindness is cool message.

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By JoshWilding - Oct 30, 2025 10:10 AM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics

"Maybe that's the real punk rock."

Superman delivered a long-overdue, far more hopeful take on the Man of Steel than other recent interpretations, and filmmaker James Gunn used the DC Studios reboot to establish that kindness is cool.

In a conversation with Lois Lane, Superman explains why seeing the good in the world is the "real punk rock." Now, DC Comics is launching a new series of Superman-inspired variant covers inspired by the highest-grossing superhero movie of 2025.

DC Comics will kick off 2026 with a six-string scream. In January, the company will publish a set of punk rock-themed variant covers across six comic book titles featuring Superman, Supergirl, and more, each one a rebellious remix of the Man (and Woman) of Tomorrow, brought to life by some of comics' most fearless artists.

From safety pins to zine-style slogans, these comic book covers channel the raw energy, DIY spirit, and anti-establishment ethos of punk rock, all while celebrating the enduring power of Superman, Supergirl, and their allies to stand up, speak out, and fight for what’s right. Kindness is the new punk rock!

Here's a full breakdown of DC's Punk Rock Variant Cover Lineup:

  • Action Comics #1094 – Annie Wu turns up the distortion with a punk-rock Superboy thrashing an electric guitar mid-solo, amps blazing and attitude dialled to eleven.
  • Superman #34 – Dave Johnson delivers a bold, black-and-white zine-style cover with the rallying cry "Kindness is the new punk rock" scrawled across Superman.
  • Superman Unlimited #9 – Mike Allred goes full anarcho-pop, plastering Superman over a giant anarchy symbol surrounded by safety pins, torn textures, and retro rebellion.
  • Supergirl #9 – Marguerite Sauvage paints Kara Zor-El as a punk heroine: fierce, stylish, and ready to break the mold.
  • Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #47 – Fabrizio De Tommaso captures the duo looking like they just stepped out of a gig and into a showdown.
  • Justice League Unlimited #15 – Dan Hipp transforms Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman into punk rock icons in his signature vibrant style: patched jackets, wild hair, and all the attitude you can handle.

As noted, these limited-edition "Punk Rock" variant covers will be available at comic shops starting January 2026. Whether you're a longtime punk, a die-hard DC fan, or just someone who believes in kindness with a side of chaos, this DC variant cover series is for you.

Check them out below, and let us know which of these covers is your favourite in the comments section.

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Lisa89
Lisa89 - 10/30/2025, 10:06 AM
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2BOOKOO4U
2BOOKOO4U - 10/30/2025, 10:08 AM
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAME.
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bobevanz
bobevanz - 10/30/2025, 10:17 AM
Rent free
bobevanz
bobevanz - 10/30/2025, 10:21 AM
Where'd you go @WalletsClosed? Bot farm closed? Muahaha
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 10/30/2025, 10:26 AM
@bobevanz - He’s hanging out with @Allsgood
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/30/2025, 2:24 PM
@bobevanz - Bringing me up for no reason? Who's really rent free?
centaur
centaur - 10/30/2025, 10:17 AM
ClungeOfSteel
ClungeOfSteel - 10/30/2025, 10:25 AM
@centaur - you know what would set Lex on the right track? A speech, not about how he killed an innocent man in cold blood, not about him risking the lives of countless humans with his pocket dimension...no no no that won't do it, lets give him a speech about my feelings and how he hurts them with his words 😭

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JobinJ
JobinJ - 10/30/2025, 10:29 AM
@ClungeOfSteel - Exactly. Dude murdered someone in cold blood in front of him, injured and hurt (probably killed) hundreds more. And what does Superman do? Gives his a stern lecture. So weak.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/30/2025, 10:31 AM
@ClungeOfSteel - Especially the way it was done. Christopher Reeve would have said that with a calm confidence that would have made that dreadful dialogue work. Here it was cringy. The further I get from that film the more just disappointing it has become. I went to se it very excited with my kids (21 and 24) and we all left feeling like it was entertaining but a you could see the disappointment on our faces. We didn’t talk about it at all after which is unusual (after Spidey NWH and Wolverine and Deadpool we were giddy, lol). There were no cheer moments and the film was very divisive and Gunn made many bad and odd choices. I don’t know if he can recover, honestly
ClungeOfSteel
ClungeOfSteel - 10/30/2025, 11:51 AM
@Bucky74 - he's lucky the majority of the audience don't think too deeply about these things. How this film got a pass with the critics I'll never know 😅
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/30/2025, 2:25 PM
@ClungeOfSteel - Because WB owns RT
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/30/2025, 3:31 PM
@ClungeOfSteel - He earned some good will with his Guardians of the Galaxy films and a few others so they let A LOT slide
ClungeOfSteel
ClungeOfSteel - 10/30/2025, 4:44 PM
@JobinJ - you could just tell Gunn wrote superman as a soapbox moment for how he felt after getting fired.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 10/30/2025, 10:18 AM

Triple puke.
DudeGuy
DudeGuy - 10/30/2025, 10:20 AM
I really don’t think either company can do anything to make me spend my hard earned money on single issues ever again at this point.
TheRevelation
TheRevelation - 10/30/2025, 10:21 AM
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theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 10/30/2025, 10:21 AM
It’s impossible to say something good in a shit movie.

theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 10/30/2025, 10:25 AM
@theBlackSquare - or: writing a decent screenplay is the new punk rock.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/30/2025, 10:24 AM
What positive message did this film have? That it’s okay to act as a dictator if you have more power and decide foreign wars and kill foreign leaders? That you should scream and whine when not getting your way in an argument? Seriously what was the message? No one used “kindness” to solve anything (that would have been dumb, but that was what Gunn kept saying was the message). What did I miss here?
theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 10/30/2025, 10:27 AM
@Bucky74 - 100%
kseven
kseven - 10/30/2025, 11:56 AM
@Bucky74 - found the zionist.

The movie was great. It's not kind to invade and genocide people. It is kind to prevent that from happening.

Easy, right?
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/30/2025, 3:35 PM
@kseven - Found the Jew hating Nazi. It’s not kind to launch a terrorist attack intentionally targeting civilians and a concert that consists of raping, butchering, and mutilating innocent men, women and children (burning them alive in front of their parents) in an actual genocide where they aware to wipe out a nation and it’s people for existing.
kseven
kseven - 10/30/2025, 4:50 PM
@Bucky74 - It's not kind to occupy and genocide a people with a made up claim that you have some right to their land because you claim your ancestors lived there in a providence once over 2000 years ago before they were kicked out for trying to overthrow Rome for the umpteenth time.

It's also not kind to occupy and deny a people any right to a military or defense, and label any defense they mount against your ongoing bombings as "terrorism."

The POWs are IDF... and there are no chopped heads or raped bodies unless you're talking about the ones in the Israeli torture dungeons of the IDF.

Let's play a game: I believe I'm a hobbit and that it's my right to takeover New Zealand and genocide the people living there because it's where Peter Jackson shot Lord Of The Rings. Does that sound kind to you? Maybe, if you're a zionist. But to most sane and normal people, that is evil.

And using the holocaust to justify the most documented genocide in human history going on in Gaza at the moment with the funding of the most powerful nation in the world no longer has the mileage it used to. People see right through it.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/30/2025, 5:40 PM
@kseven - Lol, they literally let them have that land. The only genocide was the barbaric rape, murder, and mutilation committed against innocent men, women, and children at a concert by savage terrorists. You're parroting terrorist propaganda like a fool. Watch the October 7th videos, gleefully filmed by Hamas. Or do one better, visit Gaza. Bu, Bu, Bu, But I'm you friend, won't help you when the people there hand you over to Hamas. In your final moments, you'd understand.







And Bill

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eBCBP9mwTG4
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/30/2025, 5:41 PM
@kseven - You're using casualties of a war they started to justify the genocide of Israel... like a good Nazi.
kseven
kseven - 10/30/2025, 6:35 PM
@Bucky74 - yeah, so again: Citation needed on actual rapes, beheading, etc.

The only ones committing war crimes are the IDF.

Their repeated deliberate bombings of civillians.

Perpetual ongoing deliberate genocide, starvation, and occupation.

And of course their torture dungeons which they brag about.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/30/2025, 6:55 PM
@kseven - Citation?! Are you mentally handicapped? Hamas proudly videoed it themselves you moron.

Israel is the one sending the aid that Hamas steals and they’ve always used civilians as human shields to brainwash the useful idiots like you into supporting them. Again, the only genocide was committed against the Jews (and many American citizens) on October 7th but that’s fine with you, Nazi. Well, that and the Christian genocide that’s ignored in Africa and other parts of the world you don’t care about because you are not told to, sheep.

You are parroting the insane propaganda of literal terrorists who would happily separate your body parts if you were in Gaza to show your “support”. Stalin called you folks the “Useful idiots,” lol
kseven
kseven - 10/31/2025, 1:11 AM
@Bucky74 - they never released any such thing. Israel is starving the Gazans, Hamas is a defensive organization democratically elected by Palestinians to defend them against the genocide being carried out by Israel and its puppet America. "Human shields" is yet another lie by Israel to justify their deliberate targeting of civilians and hospitals.
solskulldeath
solskulldeath - 10/31/2025, 6:38 AM
@Bucky74 - keep talking about that shitty october. the genoicide has been done by the zionist since after the end of WW2
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/31/2025, 10:37 AM
@solskulldeath - Not true, but Israel and the Jews have been targeted for genocide by the radical terrorists you support since their actual genocide, Nazi
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/31/2025, 10:41 AM
@kseven - Wow, do you even hear yourself? The insane anti-Semitic Jew hate is Nazi level. You are pushing absolute lies from genocidal terrorists who committed atrocities so barbaric, they were sub human. Non of your propaganda has any basis in reality.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/31/2025, 10:42 AM
@kseven - You are a Nazi
kseven
kseven - 10/31/2025, 11:14 AM
@Bucky74 - truth is hate to those that hate the truth. There is zero evidence to any of the claims you've said. Turn off Mark Levin. Your zionist media loves to show us every manner of pornography available, along with every manner of gore in film and propaganda, yet when it comes time to authenticate any of the phony October 7th "chopped heads and rape" claims there are zero citations because they don't exist. The same minds that give us Freduian seuxality, Edward Bernays, and Portnoy's Complaint come up with these vile claims and project them on to others then expect us to be so worked up over it that we will just support attacking and bombing whoever they tell us to. Well no more. People are waking up.

The only sexual abuse is being carried out by Israel towards its prisoners:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/greta-thunberg-mistreated-by-israeli-forces-in-detention-activists-say

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/freed-palestinians-describe-horrors-of-israeli-jail

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/18/what-we-know-about-the-torture-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoners-by-israel

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/everything-is-legitimate-israeli-leaders-defend-soldiers-accused-of-rape

You can look up the statements of Itmar Ben-Gvir and see for yourself that he's willing to defend and encourage all of this and more, and he's Israel's minister of defense. He even has a picture of Baruch Goldstein, who massacred a bunch of defenseless people with machine guns in the 90s and venerates him as a hero.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ben-gvir-baruch-goldstein-meir-kahane-memorial-martyrs-
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/31/2025, 11:38 AM
@kseven - "Zero evidence." Let's start with the atrocities Hamas proudly and gleefully videoed themselves of their barbaric rape, slaughter, and savage mutilation of innocent women and children, strangling and burning infants!!! I get it, you're a Jew-hating Nazi citing literal Hamas terrorist supporting and anti-Israel "sources" to support your view that, like the terrorists, Jews and Israel do not have a right to exist. The videos and IDF soldiers themselves have shown the world the bodies! My good friend's nephew is Israeli special forces. He was there after the genocide on the 7th. He told my buddy (his uncle!) that the atrocities we heard about don't scratch the surface. Women were raped and mutilated, and their bodies dragged through the streets, and toddlers were burnt alive in their cribs. That's all FACTUAL, Nazi. Denying that is the same as denying the holocaust happened.

Also, opponents of Netanyahu with their own political agendas are a joke. There is only one Jewish state. Sadly, that's one too many for some.
kseven
kseven - 10/31/2025, 11:54 AM
@Bucky74 - so you have zero evidence for any of your atrocity propaganda and are just a zionist jew angry that people are calling Israel out for carrying out a genocide while using the "holocaust" to justify doing so.

As for my statements, the IDF themselves defend the actual atrocities they are carrying out. Read Ben-Gvir's own words.

Netanyahu is the MODERATE in Israel. Which is utterly insane to most of the world. The Israelis themselves are demanding much much worse.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/31/2025, 1:21 PM
@kseven - You have zero evidence except for the lies and propaganda of Jew hating terrorists and their supporters. I implore you to visit both Israel and Gaza for a dose of reality. In Israel you will be able to freely practice your religion (like over 2 million Muslims already do, and they also serve in government) and be open about your sexuality whatever that may be. Then try any of that in Gaza and see what real evil looks like as the citizens hand you over to Hamas to be de-limbed. Listed to “The Green Prince” the literal son of the evil founder of Hamas terrorists.



You are seeking validation for your Jew hate
kseven
kseven - 10/31/2025, 1:44 PM
@Bucky74 - yeah, so imagine carrying out the most documented genocide in human history and then saying people are only critical of it just because they don't like you because of your personality or something...true chutzpah.

But then, you don't have to imagine.

I'd never visit Israel because I don't want to be detained by them, nor do I want to give them money in any way beyond what is coerced out of me via my taxes already. I wouldn't visit Gaza because it is a literal war genocide zone thanks to Israel and I do not wish to be bombed.

As for Muslims and non jews "seving in Israel," yeah, you got that right: they are nothing more than a shabbos serf class that exists to be exploited by Israel with zero institutional support, influence, or representation. They have zero impact on Israeli policy and are nothing more than serfs. Let me know when Israel elects its first Muslim Arab leader or becomes majority Arabic/islamic/christian, then come back and tell me how much of a wonderful, liberal and open democracy they are. 🤣
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/31/2025, 1:52 PM
@kseven - “Imagine carrying out the most documented genocide” you literally just described October 7th! I guess Jews and American citizens don’t count in your eyes. You’re literally pushing blatant terrorist and anti-Semitic lies and propaganda for sub human terrorists who would de-limb you gleefully if you were there and “bu, bu, but, I’m your friend and support you guys” wouldn’t help you. If you were there, the Israeli army is the last thing you’d have to worry about. You’re literally insane if you think otherwise. Seek the October 7th videos and wake up to reality. You are living in a Jew-hating fantasy. They would kill you and mutilate your body and laugh about it. That’s reality.

You have no idea how twisted your propaganda is and the lies you are pushing against Jews and Israel (exactly like the Nazi’s did, exactly).
kseven
kseven - 10/31/2025, 3:11 PM
@Bucky74 - again, show me an autopsy report.

Yes, I will not take the propaganda word of the most dishonest and genocidal regime in world history.
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