The Deadman #3 Preview

 

Boston Brand may have died. Still, he has never been busier. As the Deadman, he has dedicated his afterlife to helping souls transition to whatever comes next. Sometimes, Boston can intervene, and give the dying another shot at life. But most of the time, he eases the soul onto their next journey on the great wheel of Samsara. 

Unfortunately, Jesse "Flyeater" Hollern won't get that chance. After he crashed his Harley, a four-armed demon devoured Jesse's soul. Boston must act promptly to prevent the imbalance between the forces of life and anti-life from threatening all life on Earth. But how will Boston fare in the Underworld? And how many people will Professor M abduct and kill in Boston's absence?

Here's all the info from DC Connect:

 

The Deadman #3 Preview

Writer: W. Maxwell Prince

Artist & Cover Artist: Martin Morazzo

Variant Cover Artists: Christian Ward, Alex Eckman-Lawn & Tyler Boss

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Price: $3.99 US/Variant $4.99 US (Card Stock)

Release Date: August 5, 2026

 

 

The Deadman in Hell! Or…

 

 

The third edition of this morbid disquisition concerning the attrition/detrition of the human condition, which, in the weekly tradition, boasts a four-color exhibition on some printer’s emission. Here, by order of an anonymous optician, watch closely this vision of our titular apparition (armed, you’ll remember, with fresh erudition) try and survive—by another’s volition—a dire and dangerous mission through the hissin’, Stygian conditions of putrid and pockmarked Perdition—a kind of new rendition (depicted as a living, breathing country-sized conniption), which is rich in its list of sick compositions: e.g., reason’s egregious abolition; a pyrotechnic passel of pernicious seditions; hideous, bulging buck-toothed dentition; admittedly ambitious demonic deglutition…of gargoyles and ghouls in decomposition…not to mention an array of impossible physical positions that a physician might consider the work of magicians. So please accept our contrition for this rude imposition, our addled transmission this ungodly, offset-press parturition—one that we wish some brave obstetrician would bring to fruition its quick decommission.

 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

 

Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this preview with us.

For what happened last time, see my review of The Deadman #2. 

For how this series started, see my review of The Deadman #1. 

The Deadman #2 Review

 

The Deadman #2 Review

Writer: W Maxwell Prince

Artist: Martín Morazzo

Colorist: Chris O’Halloran

Letterer: Good Old Neon

Editors: Chris Rosa & Paul Kaminski

Cover Artist: Martín Morazzo

Variant Cover Artists: Lucio Parrillo, Mark Spears, Alex Eckman-Lawn & Stevan Subić

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $3.99/$4.99

Release Date: July 1, 2026

 

While the patients in the Outer Gotham Rural Hospital ride the morphine drip, Boston Brand rides through their memories. Sure, he's a voyeur. But he likes people. He'll give a villain a pass into Heaven if someone loved them. And as Boston assists souls in transition, he sometimes performs a miracle to give the dying a second chance at life.

 

But while Boston Brand reveres life as an Outfit Changing Spectral Super-Entity, others feed off it. They devour souls of the newly dead and relish the taste of living flesh. Can Rama Kushna empower Boston Brand to defeat more than light bulbs? And why have demons invaded Gotham? Let’s leap into The Deadman #2 and see!

 

Story

Rama Kushna may reprimand Boston for never being on time, but she enjoys a childlike love of the world around her. Only the world around her isn't just Earth, but the wheel of Samsara on which our souls generate Karma. Yet just as Darkseid threatened to turn Earth into Apokolips, and a plague spirit threatened to wipe out musicians in the Magical Realm, Rama Kushna believes that spirit-eating demons threaten the balance between life and anti-life. So, she sends Boston Brand to Gotham to help identify the demon that chomped Jesse "Flyeater” Hollern’s spirit-head after his road accident.

 

While Rama Kushna believes Batman can help Boston Brand identify the demon, Batman also conducts a supernatural investigation in The Deadman #2. Aided by Plastic Man, Batman seeks to prevent Lazarus Rising from smuggling capsules of resin from Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pits into Blackgate Penitentiary. Yet Boston seems reluctant to leave his tiny suburb of Robertsville. Lorna still lives there. And like him, she

mourns the life they might have had.

 

As W Maxwell Prince shares Boston and Batman's investigations, Rama Kushna and Plastic Man address the reader. While they reveal the crimes that threaten Humanity, Boston, charged with caring for people's souls, seems reluctant to play his role in this cosmic struggle. But then, Boston reveres life. By slipping inside people, he can share their joys and sorrows. And as Boston Brand leaves his comfortable home in Robertsville, he will confront people who treat the living like dirt in The Deadman #2.

 

Art

Martín Morazzo opens with a series of one-page introductions. An intricate gold frame introduces Rama Kushna’s spiritual teachings and her instructions to Boston Brand. Plastic Man’s body elongates around panels as he shares his investigation with Batman. The title page sandwiches Boston's relationship with the woman he lost between panels of himself and the friend he found. Then, a banner headlines the Bibliophile’s cautionary tale. As the action gets underway, Batman and Plastic Man tackle mummies at the Gotham Wharf. And while contorting himself more than Lorna’s sorrow twists her soul, Plastic Man forms his body into a coffin, and one fist into a pyramid.

 

As Rama Kushna and Boston Brand set the Samsara-ending stakes, Chris O’Halloran casts this nighttime world of The Deadman #2 in blue. Batman wears a brighter blue as Boston’s white face also takes on a blue hue. Red links Plastic Man with Boston, two heroes with ignoble pasts. Bobby, trapped in his spirit form, wears yellow clothes. While a light green fills the Blackgate Penitentiary, richer shades define Batman. And as Rama Kushna wears an indigo dress, the king of the soul devourers wears an indigo sweater. Yet when Mr M confronts his next victim, orange fills his eyes, and his glasses capture a nearby yellow light as he casts a sapphire shadow.

 

As W Maxwell Prince packs his story with dialogue and Boston’s thoughts, Good Old Neon fills boxes with black lowercase letters. The letters showcase a wide range of sizes and fonts. Batman and Plastic Man introduce their investigation with blue and red boxes. While letters in black boxes locate the reader on the physical plane, a spiky balloon highlights Batman’s search for answers. Yet colorful sound effects and screeching force Boston to rethink his strategy as he undertakes his own search for the truth. Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this story with us.

 

Final Thoughts

Even though Boston Brand knows people can change, he tends to regard people in static terms. As he slips into people to experience their minds and souls, he finds them more complex than he imagined. Yet while Boston seeks help identifying Jesse “Flyeater” Hollern’s spirit-killer, the abduction of Gotham’s brightest stars continues in The Deadman #2.

 

Rating 9/10

 

To look inside see my preview of The Deadman #2. 

 

For what happened last time, see my review of The Deadman #1.

For the creators' last series, see my review of Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1. 

 

 

The Deadman #1 Preview

 

The medical staff try to put a brave face on it. Still, the Outer Gotham Rural Hospital is where people come to die. Sure, the doctors and nurses try to imbue hope into hopeless situations. Sadly, there's not much they can do for the patients in "the Hospice Hotel." 

Dr Barrows, Sasha, and Tammy may not be able to offer their charges more than painkillers and kindness. Yet someone walks the halls who can ease them onto the next level of their existence. Who is Boston Brand? And why do they call him The Deadman?

Here's all the info from DC Connect: 

The Deadman #1

Writer: W. Maxwell Prince

Artist & Cover Artist: Martín Morazzo

Variant Cover Artists: Frank Cho & Tula Lotay

1:25 Variant Cover Artist: Mike Choi

Next Level Variant Cover Artist: Hayden Sherman

Foil Variant Cover Artist: Martín Morazzo

Also Available: Blank Sketch Cover

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $3.99 US/$4.99 US (Card Stock)

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Release Date: June 3, 2026

 

 

The All-Star creators of 2025’s hit miniseries Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum 

(and the ongoing horror anthology Ice Cream Man) 

are back at DC Comics to lift your spirits!

 

 

The Deadman enters the Next Level!

 

In the millisecond following his murder, the soul of shifty circus aerialist Boston Brand was commandeered by the goddess Rama Kushna, who deputized the erstwhile performer’s ghost with a sacred spectral assignment: the Custodian of All Souls! Now Brand floats—begrudgingly—through this blue-green purgatory we call Earth, upholding the Laws of Spiritual Math and protecting humanity from evil—even if they can’t see or hear him. Open up to this new era of DC’s most lively deceased superhero—the Deadman—in a story about life, death, and everything in between…replete with paranormal activity, possessions, and a profusion of other poignant peculiarities.

 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this preview with us.

For more from the creators, see my review of Superman: TheKryptonite Spectrum #1.