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As part of the Dawn of DC, Popverse favorite, Joanne Starer took former Justice League members Fire and Ice to Smallville for a dose of reality, DCU style, in Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville. In the new All In era of DC, Starer is taking them back to Superman’s hometown just in time for everything to go to hell. And maybe I don’t mean that metaphorically.

The six-issue Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over sees Starer and artist Stephen Byrne pick up on a plot thread left dangling at the end of 2024’s Absolute Power event: although the two heroes have fixed their relationship in the Welcome to Smallville series, now they’re faced with a new problem — their powers have been mixed up, and they don’t have a clue how to use them. Or, for that matter, not even stop themselves from accidentally causing disaster with them.

DC’s description of the first issue of the series runs as follows: “In the pages of DC’s Absolute Power event, Fire and Ice had finally achieved what Fire always wanted. The dynamic duo made a glorious return to the ranks of the Justice League—and during a major world crisis, no less! But when the crisis was overcome, the smoke had cleared, and all the superpowers were restored, Ice found herself shooting off uncontrollable spurts of fire, and Fire had ice crystals forming at her fingertips. Oops. With their powers switched and no solution in sight, Fire and Ice tuck tail and regroup in Smallville, where they realize their predicament makes them something worse than has-been heroes: menaces to the local community they’ve come to love. But Fire’s always got a plan, no matter how shortsighted! And when she goes digging around in Zatanna’s bag of tricks for a quick fix in the middle of karaoke night… what could possibly go wrong? Aside from, y’know, everything. Again.”

The first issue of the series features a cover from Terry and Rachel Dodson, with variant covers from David Nakayama, Jeff Dekál, and Kevin Wada. Take a look at the covers below:

Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #1 (of 6) will be released April 9.

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