Superman is going back on the night beat. At DC’s Next Level panel at New York Comic Con, Joshua Williamson detailed the next arc of his ongoing Superman series, which brings new regular artist Xermánico aboard starting with Superman #43 on October 28, according to Bleeding Cool.
The arc also brings back Marilyn Moonlight, the supernatural Spirit of Metropolis Williamson introduced earlier in the run. Lois Lane points Clark back toward reporting, and that investigation drops him into a mysterious death cult operating in a side of Metropolis he did not know existed.
Jimmy Olsen is a major part of the mystery, which ties into elements of Nekron’s Deadlands. Williamson also noted that Xermánico has no plans to leave the Superman title any time soon, which is a big signal for the book’s long-term look.
Night Shift continues into winter
- Superman #44 (Nov. 25): An old friend goes missing, and the cult is revealed to worship a corrupted Black Lantern ring that tries to claim Superman.
- Superman #45 (Dec. 23): Superman and Marilyn Moonlight team up as noir and horror collide in a Metropolis neighborhood possessed by Nekron’s Deadlands.
The panel also showed off a glow-in-the-dark variant cover, because of course a Moonlight arc needs one. DC’s Next Level slate is stacking supernatural books beside the big cape titles. RCG covered that broader push when DC set Starfire, Swamp Thing and Superboy-Prime for 2027.
October 28 is when Clark clocks back into the newsroom and the darker corners of Metropolis at the same time.
Williamson’s Superman run has already mixed big-event crossover debris with weird Metropolis mythology. Putting Marilyn Moonlight back beside a death-cult mystery is a way to make the city feel haunted again without abandoning the reporter half of Clark Kent. Xermánico’s long-term commitment matters because Night Shift is clearly built as a multi-issue noir, not a one-and-done fill-in. The Black Lantern ring beat in #44 also ties the street-level cult to cosmic horror, which is how you get casual Superman readers and Blackest Night lifers into the same pull pile.
