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SPIRIT WORLD VOL. 2 #1
Cover Date: July 2023
Cover Price: $3.99
Publication Date: 2023-05-09
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Cover Credits:
Art: Haining (signed)
Colors: Sebastian Cheng
Variant Covers:
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Credits:
| Story | Alyssa Wong |
| Art | Haining |
| Lettering | Janice Chiang |
| Colors | Sebastian Cheng |
| Editing | Jessica Chen |
| Group editing | Ben Abernathy |
Feature Character(s):
- Xanthe Zhou (last in Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4; also in flashback to Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4)
Guest Star(s):
- Batgirl (last in Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4; also in flashback to Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4)
- John Constantine (last in Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4; also in flashback to Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4)
Supporting Character(s):
- Po Po (first appearance; as a spirit; the former Verdant Sorceress; last in flashback in issue #6)
- Bowen (first appearance; as a spirit)
Villain(s):
- The Collective (also in flashback to Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4)
- Mr. Hong (first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Xanthe's mother (first appearance; unnamed)
- Easton (first appearance)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Jiangshi (in flashback to Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1/4)
Location(s):
- Earth
- United States of America
- Gotham City
- Chinatown
- Mr. Nguyen's Goods and Sundries
- Chinatown
- Gotham City
- United States of America
- Sphere of the Gods
- Spirit World
- Po Po's apartment
- Spirit World
Comment(s):
- Story continues in the next issue.
Solicitation:
- Her name is Xanthe, and her superpower is being able to burn items folded from joss paper and immediately turn them into real objects, based on the East Asian practice of burning joss paper at graveyards in order to send resources to ancestors in the Spirit World…except Xanthe can retrieve those items in the world of the living! Their weapon of choice is a large broadsword (because who doesn’t love a big sword when you can choose to use a big sword?!). Xanthe is a master of the dark arts who’s here to give Constantine a run for his money…literally. When Constantine shows up saying Xanthe scammed him into buying something, he finds them and Batgirl Cass Cain fighting an abnormal influx of jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampires) and joins in to help. But when a portal opens up that drags Batgirl into the Spirit World, it’s up to Xanthe and Constantine to travel to the land of the spirits to rescue her! Who knows what other spirits we’ll find in the Spirit World—like that skateboarding boy wearing hanfu with some headphones and a gaping hole in his chest?!