By Zack Quaintance — DC Comics has announced that Zatanna, Vixen, and Red Hood are all getting new series on WebToon, joining the ongoing (and excellent) Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, which just published its 33rd edition this week. The series will be launching throughout this year, and they are titled Vixen: NYC; Red Hood: Outlaws; and Zatanna and the Ripper.

Vixen: NYC is launching first, arriving on May 26, and it is from the creative team of Jasmine Walls with lead artist Manou Azumi. The other two series are currently just slated to arrive in summer. Red Hood: Outlaws is from Patrick R. Young with art by Nico Bascuñán, while Zatanna & The Ripper is from Sarah Dealy and lead artist Syro.

This is all making it look like DC Comics’ making content for WebToon — which began last summer — is a success. In edition to expanding the number of series and characters on the platform, the ongoing Batman: Wayne Family Adventures is a roaring success, having currently racked up 33.1 million views and 942,171 subscriptions. Impressive stuff! You can find descriptions of each below, along with some early artwork from the Vixen series.

VIXEN: NYC (May 26), written by Jasmine Walls with lead artist Manou Azumi

Mari Jiwe grew up in a small, seaside town in North Carolina, but upon graduating high school seeks to connect with extended family in Ghana. There, she meets relatives who gift her a mysterious totem, passed down for generations. Immediately upon returning home, she moves to New York for her freshman year of college. Mari hates it. New York is smelly, dirty, and full of even smellier and dirtier animals. Holed up in her room she finally inspects the totem–inadvertently releasing its magic. She is hit with an energy that gives her the power of the animal kingdom…of New York.
Mari had a hard enough time navigating college as a normal girl, and now she not only has to figure out how to “adult,” but also how to “superhuman.” Then women, who look unusually like Mari, are kidnapped across the city. Vixen learns an estranged, distant relative, General Maksai, is on the hunt for her, seeking the crystal for himself. To stop his war path, Vixen will have to stop him. As she does, she learns the true extent of her abilities. Turns out, she’s capable of a lot more than she thought.

RED HOOD: OUTLAWS (Summer 2022), written by Patrick R. Young with art by Nico Bascuñán

The Outlaws try to go legit — and fail spectacularly. The Justice League has issued a challenge to Red Hood, Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, and Bizarro, who have to try and replace their goody-two-shoe counterparts as the heroes the world neither deserves nor needs.
In this original series, the Outlaws will battle some of DC’s biggest Super-Villains and Super Heroes — but their biggest battles are among themselves. Can this team last? And can they find their own identities separate from Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman?

ZATANNA & THE RIPPER (Summer 2022), written by Sarah Dealy and lead artist Syro

Giovanni Zatara is one of the world’s most talented magicians. His daughter Zatanna, on the other hand, is among the world’s most powerful. On her 21st birthday, Zatanna witnesses a fight between her father and the sorceress Allura. Before Allura can get to his daughter, however, Giovanni blasts Zatanna far away-to London, England…in the 1800s. Zatanna tries to use her burgeoning magic to return home, but fails. What she can do, however, is pull things out of the future (and past). So her small, 19th century room is now filled with modern gadgets. It seems she’ll be stuck forever until an old friend finds her — John Constantine. Recognizing him from her past–or her future, he tells her he knows how to get her home. They’ll have to solve the Jack the Ripper murders. To make matters worse, Zatanna also quickly learns that she’s among the Ripper’s targets.
In a gritty but magical journey (with a healthy dab of romance), Zatanna and John Constantine join forces to find and unmask Jack the Ripper.

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He has written about comics for The Beat and NPR Books, among others. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.