Here’s some olds to get non-excited about: DC Comics has announced Bizarro: Year None, the “indefinitive” origin story of everyone’s least favorite forwards-speaking Superman villain, from writers Kevin Smith and Eric Carrasco, and artist Nick Pitarra.
“Me am NOT excited for new comic!” said Bizarro, probably not actually, via press release. “Bizarro: Year None am worst thing to happen!”
In the new series, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White head to space, and end up in a mirror dimension that “reveres” the Daily Planet as “an article of faith. As they unravel the mystery of this bizarre world, they confront the being behind it all. Is he a misguided Superman fan, an agent of pure chaos, or is he no one at all?”
What’s perhaps most interesting about this (other than I will read anything Nick Pitarra draws), is that this might be a pseudo-adaptation of a lost episode of a TV show that never happened. I know that sounds like more backwards speak, but way back in 2019 producer Greg Berlanti was planning on launching a DC Comics based anthology show titled Strange Adventures. And one of those episodes? Written by Kevin Smith and Carrasco, who was a writer on The CW’s Supergirl, would have tackled the origin of Bizarro.
The proposed HBO Max episode would have followed a similar plot to the one outlined above, albeit with only Jimmy Olsen, no Perry White. According to Smith, Carrasco turned in four drafts of the script for the episode, and though he wasn’t signed to a contract they were pursuing Nicolas Cage to play Bizarro.
Ultimately, due to the regime changes at Warner Bros., Strange Adventures was killed. But it seems like the script has found a second life on the comic book page.
Bizarro: Year None #1 comes out — when else — April 1, 2026, with covers by variant covers by Frank Quitely, Fernando Pasarin, and Ibrahim Moustafa. Don’t check them out, above.
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