The Injustice League is coming back for a fourteen-part prequel series to Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2. Tom Taylor is reviving this world for Injustice: Year Zero. The 14-part event will take place before Gods Among Us. It features the Justice League and the Justice Society of America. The two teams will face off against the Joker, who has a way to control the heroes to force them to destroy each other.
In a recent interview with THR, Taylor revealed why he decided to revive the series:
Why return to Injustice now?
Part of it, for me, was about what we could put out into the world right now. I was talking to [DCeased and Batman editor] Ben Abernathy about wanting to create exciting, affordable, digital-first comics for fans who were having trouble accessing physical comics in this challenging time.
We came up with two ideas. Given the popularity of DCeased, we thought expanding that universe, with our Hope at World’s End series, was a no-brainer. And then, the other obvious thing was to return to one of the most successful digital-first comics of all time, Injustice.
As I started work on DCeased: Hope at World’s End, Ben sent me an email with the subject line “Yes, we’re trying to kill you.” The upshot was DC loved the idea of returning to Injustice as well as doing DCeased, so we decided to do both.
And while this was about reaching people digitally, by choosing two big, well-loved series, we also wanted books that we thought would do well for retailers when we release them physically.
Why return with a prequel—and with this particular prequel, especially? You’re building out the mythology and backstory of the Injustice world in a very unexpected way with this series.
A couple of reasons.
One, this was the part of the story that always felt like it had the biggest hole. There were two Injustice questions that have been hanging over me for years. Why did Joker target Superman? And where did the Justice Society go? We actually sowed the seeds of this in the Injustice 2 comics, when both Doctor Midnite and Wildcat hinted at a traumatic past in our universe.
Two, while I was keen to return to this universe, I really didn’t feel like this was the right time for stories of a dictator Superman. My favorite comics are an escape from the real world, and the real world has more than enough power-hungry men stomping their will on the people. I wanted to write something where my heroes were truly heroic. The only way to do so in the Injustice universe, was to check in before Superman’s fall and before Batman and Superman’s friendship was broken.
By this point, you’ve written Injustice for 150 chapters, across five years; I think audiences feel like they know what to expect from the series. What’s the one thing in Year Zero that they’re not going to see coming?
Hope. Genuine heroics. This one isn’t as morally grey as what comes after. This is Superman and Batman at the peak of their friendship. Lois and Clark as a team. The Justice League united, and the Justice Society as a shining example for all. Of course, by its very nature, there’s going to be tragedy and shocks and deaths, but there will be hope, there will be triumph, there will be love with the loss and heart alongside the hurt.
Are you excited for Injustice: Year Zero?
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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