DC's Forever People Make Their New 52 Debut

While Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet was arguably the biggest announcement on DC's latest All-Access video, it wasn't the only new project announced. Fans of Jack Kirby's Fourth World mythology can also look forward to a revival of Infinity Man and the Forever People in the near future.

These characters first appeared in 1971's Forever People #1. Kirby's Forever People were a group of hippie-inspired New Gods from New Genesis who traveled to Earth and used their fantastical technology to combine their bodies and form a hero known as Infinity Man. The concept was most recently explored by Grant Morrison in Final Crisis, who created the colorful Japanese group The Super Young Team to serve as the Forever People of the new Fifth World. The characters also recently featured in an episode of Young Justice: Invasion.

Based on DC's solicitation text, it seems this new series will be a little more classical in its execution:

In this new series, four of the best students from New Genesis arrive on Earth to study and aid in the advancement of humanity – but they soon discover a darker purpose to their mission: a threat so great that it may bring the multiverse itself to its knees! The only thing that stands between them and total destruction is the mysterious entity known as the Infinity Man! 

Infinity Man and the Forever People will be co-written by Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen, with pencils by Giffen and inks by Scott Koblish. DiDio and Giffen previously revamped another popular Kirby creation with OMAC, a series that launched at the start of the New 52 and lasted eight issues. Though OMAC never found sales success, it seems DC is still intent on integrating the Fourth World with the rest of the New 52. And if Forever Evil and Earth 2 are any indication, it won't be long before the DCU comes into conflict with Darkseid again.

Infinity Man and the Forever People #1 is scheduled to ship on June 11.

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