Metamorpho is one of the weirdest characters in the DC Comics canon. A superhero with the ability to change himself into any element in the human body, Rex Mason has always bounced around the fringes. But now he’ll be taking center stage in Metamorpho: The Element Man, a new ongoing series from writer Al Ewing and artist Steve Lieber.
“This is 100% fun comics, delivered with total confidence, visceral joy and absolutely no winking to the camera,” said Ewing via PR provided to Comic Book Club. “It’s a love letter to Bob Haney, Ramona Fradon and the spirit of superheroes at their wildest and weirdest—we’re aiming to catch the essential fab-freakiness of Metamorpho like lightning in a bottle and get groovy with it in our own special way.”
In the new series, Metamorpho is fighting “Cy.C.L.O.P.S., the hairy eyeball of crime that gazes from the top of the pop charts to the lowest depths of evil—and even into the far-off, far-out Ra-Realm?” In order to do that, though, he has to fight an assassin who can also change their form.
“This is our take on classic DC comics,” continued Ewing. “Done-in-ones that’ll satisfy discerning Metamaniacs month by month as they build up to something so far out that it might just be a one-way ticket to nowheresville for a certain freak of a thousand changes! Who is the menacing Mister 3? What’s the sinister secret of Sugar Sweet? Who’s the target of Vandal Savage’s million-year revenge? All these way-out mysteries and more will be answered in the New Age of Metamorpho—it’s our Xmas gift to you!”
Yep, the new DC All In book comes out on December 25. It’ll include a main cover by Lieber, colors by Lee Loughridge and letters by Ferran Delgado. There will also be variant covers by Erica Henderson, Ian Bertram and Steve Beach. Check out some of the covers and some unlettered interior pages, below.
