DC Comics is promoting the imminent arrival of its All-In initiative by unveiling brand-new Justice League membership cards, available throughout October and the first week of November. DC All in Special #1 will hit comic book shelves on October 2.

Per AIPT, the Justice League membership cards, measuring 2.125″ by 3.3125″, will be available at participating comic book shops. The cards are based on the design featured in the DC All In Special, where the cards will appear for the first time in the present DC canon. A QR code on the back of each Justice League membership card takes fans to exclusive previews of upcoming All-In issues, behind-the-scenes material, character designs, and more. Fans buying four different DC titles per week will get a different Justice League membership card for free.

The Batman membership card will arrive in October’s first week, followed by Superman and Wonder Woman in weeks two and three, respectively. A customizable Justice League membership card debuts in October’s final week, and the Darkseid-infected glow-in-the-dark membership becomes available in week one of November. DC’s All-In initiative will launch the brand-new Absolute Universe that will tie in with a new Darkseid-centric storyline for all the publisher’s current titles.

The Absolute Universe will tell alternate tales of DC’s iconic characters alongside the ones in regular continuity, with one of the initiative’s leading creators, Scott Snyder, explaining the objective of All-In. “The goal is to celebrate every kind of superhero storytelling at once. I was lucky enough in my decade-plus of DC to be part of really awesome initiatives. One, the New 52 was all about new things, and reinventing the heroes from the ground up and inviting in readers that wanted reimagined takes,” he said.

“Another, Rebirth, was about celebrating this great incredible tapestry of continuous storytelling that we’ve had, this epic kind of collective story, possibly in centuries,” Snyder continued. “My belief and the belief of, I think, most creators and editors and everybody there was that if we could do both of those things together at the same time, we’d have an incredible seismic moment and initiative that embraced all kinds of readers.”

Snyder also discussed making DC Universe’s main villain, Darkseid, even more formidable. “And so we started planning this story about Darkseid. Darkseid is the villain that both Josh (Williamson) and I always felt like he is sort of the core antagonist of the entire DCU,” he said. “I think over the last few years, he’s had some fantastic stories from, you know, 15 years ago. I can’t believe it’s that long almost, but Final Crisis to you know, the Darkseid War, all these different ones, but we felt like maybe it was time to do something with him where he leveled up,” Snyder explained.

DC’s brand-new Justice League membership cards will be available in participating comic book shops throughout October and the first week of November.

Source: AIPT