DC Comics has announced the Monkey Prince, aka Marcus Sun, is getting a 12-issue maxi-series beginning in 2022.
Based on the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, the series will follow up on the events from DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration #1. Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang will launch the Monkey Prince series on February 1, 2022.
For fans who can’t wait for February to read more about DC’s Monkey Prince, a new short story, “Apokolips in the Heavenly Realm,” just posted to dcuniverse.com and dccomics.com. In this new tale, available now, you’ll see the classic Journey to the West characters—Sun Wukong, King Bull Demon, Princess Iron Fan, Red Boy, and Erlang Shen—defending the heavenly realm against Darkseid and his parademons!