Take A First Look At DC Comics' Mysterious Event Leviathan
(GameSpot PS3 News)

Legendary creators Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev are teaming up for the first time at DC Comics with a six-part mystery thriller event called Event Leviathan this June--and it`s already shaping up to be an ominous affair. Take a look at these promotional posters highlighting each of the characters caught in Leviathan`s web, from Batman and Batgirl to Plastic Man and Lois Lane.`You have tried everything,` Leviathan`s message reads. `The world needs us to do better.`Likened more to Agatha Christie novels than typical superhero bombast, Bendis teased the event in an interview with GameSpot at DC`s Burbank offices late last month.`[By the end of the story] Leviathan will have risen and what it is and what they`ve done will have landed,` Bendis said. `And so there are a lot of pieces that are going to shift and a lot of heroes are going to have a kind of a new purpose--like a new motivation, because the enemy will have revealed itself. He`s not selling villainy and he`s not selling antagonism. There are heroes and there are villains and then there`s this other thing right now. And that other thing isn`t playing by the rules dictated by the rules of the genre. That`s going to mess up a lot of people`s heads.`While Event Leviathan itself is a self-contained six-issue series, it`s being supported by various specials and one-shot issues, like the preview in last month`s Year Of The Villain kick-off special and next week`s upcoming Superman: Leviathan Rising special by Bendis and artist Yanick Paquette.Take your first look at the Leviathan Rising special here.Superman: Leviathan Rising hits shelves on May 29 while Event Leviathan #1 arrives June 12, everywhere comics are sold.