In the grand tradition of JLApe: Guerilla Warfare, the superheroes of the Justice League are about to make another transcendent transformation. In a title so good I’m kind of shocked it took someone this long to think of it, Jurassic League — starring the superheroes as anthropomorphic dinosaurs — is about to rock the prehistoric DC Comics universe.
Polygon, who broke the news, reports the six-issue limited series will be written by Daniel Warren Johnson and Juan Gedeon with both also handing the art (covers and interiors, respectively). The publisher’s official synopsis is as follows:
“You know the story: an infant escapes the destruction of its home planet and is deposited on Earth to be raised by human parents. A goddess from a lost city defends truth. A Tyrannosaurus rex dons the visage of a bat to strike fear into evildoers’ hearts. This heroic trinity, alongside a league of other super-powered dinosaurs, join forces to save a prehistoric Earth from the sinister machinations of Darkseid. Wait… what? OK, maybe you don’t know the story. So join us and bear witness to a brand-new — yet older than time — adventure and experience the Justice League as you have never seen them before!”
The site also revealed some of the hero/dino hybrids that will star in the series: Superman will be a brachiosaurus, Batman an allosaurus (confirmed by Gedeon, despite the synopsis claiming he’s 0 T.Rex), Wonder Woman a triceratops, the Flash a velociraptor (naturally), and the Joker is a truly unsettling-looking dilophosaurus, which you can see if you head over to Polygon, along with some additional insights from Gedeon and Johnson. It’s all definitely worth a look, if only to see an extremely angry triceratops cosplaying as Wonder Woman.
“Jurassic League is all I want to draw: dinos and epic fights,” said Gedeon. “My own version of a ‘90s cartoon or video game. Expect a story about survival, unity, and hope where the strong protect the weak in a world where danger lurks in every corner.” Frankly, I appreciate the honesty, and his enthusiasm has me even more excited for the comic, which will stomp its way to stores on May 10, 2022.