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
JobinJ
JobinJ - 10/30/2025, 10:30 AM
OH COOL< WE JUST STOPPED ALL THE WARS AND HATE WITH THESE!!! HOORAYYYY!!!
MikeyL
MikeyL - 10/30/2025, 10:31 AM
Wasted opportunity not to use Superboy on the cover since he was originally meant to be a little punk
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 10/30/2025, 11:54 AM
@MikeyL - RIGHT!
soberchimera
soberchimera - 10/30/2025, 10:41 AM
Awful, three-chord music genre.
TK420
TK420 - 10/30/2025, 11:08 AM
Do these turds work for free? I can't imagine DC paying for this shit...
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 10/30/2025, 11:15 AM
CRINGE
(verb)
To have an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness.

EXAMPLE: Current DC Comic artists trying (and failing) to represent what seems "cool" and "edgy" to today's youth. 🫤
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 10/30/2025, 7:32 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - They're trying and failing to represent what seems cool and edgy to yesterday's youth. Punk died before most of these artists were born.

What's "cool" and "edgy" to today's youth: Conformity, Tic Tok, AI, social anxiety, only ever rebelling through algorithm approved conspiracy theories, only ever protesting when analytics wants it, soma, screen addiction, using words like "Gifted" and "Ghosted" incorrectly, dating apps, repression, cancel culture, clicks, ad revenue, Labubu, Beabadoobee and Sydney Sweeney's boobies.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 10/30/2025, 11:19 AM
"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." -Josh Wilding

I'm embarrassed for you Josh. SMH 🙄
Superheroking
Superheroking - 10/30/2025, 11:24 AM
This is the lamest shit i’ve ever seen. And of course this shit article is written by Josh Wilding. 🤡
Reginator
Reginator - 10/30/2025, 11:37 AM
that is just [frick]ing stupid. superman was the only comic book movie I was interested in seeing this year. The more that came out about it, the worse it got. An un restrained Gunn is shit. Hope the buyout happens soon and he is replaced.
kseven
kseven - 10/30/2025, 11:59 AM
Love the movie but not really a fan of the whole punk rock thing.

Remember where the term "punk" comes from and what it means...
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/30/2025, 2:28 PM
@kseven - Gunn himself is punk rock. It's a self insert lmao
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