DC Announce ‘DC Power: Rise Of The Power Company’ For Black History Month
by Olly MacNamee
Just ahead of Black History Month by only a few days, DC’s DC Power Black History Month anthology is out on Wednesday January 29th and retitled as DC Power: Rise of the Power Company. A one-shot that sets up a further one-shot later this year, The Power Company: Recharged.
This special anthology will feature the story, “Company Man,” a two-part prelude to The Power Company: Recharged, by Black Lightning writer Brandon Thomas with art by Charles Stewart III, Anthony Fowler Jr., and Ulises Arreola. leads on from this week’s Black Lightning #3.
“This story reintroduces readers to Josiah Power: attorney, metahuman, and onetime leader of the Power Company, a group of superheroes for hire, now disbanded…
As Power grieves over the death of his nephew Daniel due to the actions of Amanda Waller, and as his own energy-manipulating powers are growing out of control, he quickly realizes that a new iteration of the Power Company may be the only solution to the problem of growing anti-meta sentiment, and Jefferson Pierce, a.k.a. Black Lightning, is the key.”
DC Power: Rise of the Power Company, also features the following strips:
- Vixen and Bolt team up to battle anti-metahuman sentiment in a hospital where citizens are getting treated for emerging abilities in “Ring of Power,” written by Zipporah Smith with art by Kelsey Ramsay and Francesco Segala
- Cyborg and Green Lantern Jo Mullein face off against Despero in “Unfinished Business,” written by John Jennings with art by Caanan White, Atagun Ilhan, and Andrew Dalhouse
- In “Dynamic Duo,” writer Vita Ayala and artists Ray-Anthony Height and Chris Sotomayor deliver a different kind of Batman and Signal team-up as Jace Fox and Duke Thomas fight crime, drink ginger beer, and play Spades on the mean streets of New York.
DC Power: Rise of the Power Company 
“Company Man” writer Brandon Thomas with art by Charles Stewart III, Anthony Fowler Jr., and Ulises Arreola. 
“Ring of Power,” written by Zipporah Smith with art by Kelsey Ramsay and Francesco Segala 
“Unfinished Business,” written by John Jennings with art by Caanan White, Atagun Ilhan, and Andrew Dalhouse 
And then on Wednesday 30th April, we get The Power Company: Recharged one-shot written by Bryan Edward Hill with art by Khary Randolph and Alitha Martinez.
“This new DC All In series dives deeper into how this new iteration of the Power Company—made up of Power, Black Lightning, Batman (Jace Fox), the Signal, and Vixen—will not only rebuild humanity’s faith in heroes and fight against the rising tide of anti-metahuman hate but stop a serial killer targeting metahumans in the streets of Atlanta.”
The main cover is by Edwin Galmon, with variant covers by Ryan Benjamin, Sanford Greene, and Paris Alleyne.
