Batman parody The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers reveals The Reader in exclusive preview

Preview pages for Ahoy Comics’ The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers continue the ongoing tale of Dragonfly and Dragonflyman, two very different heroes who found themselves stranded on each other’s worlds.

Originally released in 2019, The Wrong Earth has been a surprise hit. The book, published by Ahoy Comics, is a parody of Batman stories, with a gritty hero and a campy hero forced to switch worlds.

The book is a masterful send-up of tropes tied to both ’60s superheroes and modern heroes, full of tongue-in-cheek jokes and hard-hitting violence.

Now, Dexerto can exclusively share preview pages for The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers, the upcoming continuation of Ahoy Comics’ critically acclaimed The Wrong Earth saga.

Lady Dragonflyman and Nightsting fight to get home in The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers

The preview pages reveal the book’s parody of The Watcher, here dubbed The Reader. He offers a brief recap before we finally see what happened to Nightsting and Ladydragonflyman, who went missing at the end of last year’s The Wrong Earth: We Could Be Heroes.

The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers sees Dragonfly and Dragonflyman back on Earth-Alpha, alongside their sidekicks Stinger and Stinger II. With the Megamirrors destroyed, can these heroes find a way to work together? And what will happen to Lady Dragonflyman and Earth-Zeta’s Nightsting, who seem to be stranded between worlds?

THE WRONG EARTH: DEAD RINGERS #1

(W) Tom Peyer

(A) Jamal Igle, Juan Castro

Cover A: Jamal Igle

Cover B: Felipe Sobreiro

AHOY’s acclaimed multiverse comic returns for a new five-issue run by the original creative team! Dragonflyman and Stinger are back where they belong, on campy Earth-Alpha—but Earth-Omega’s gritty Dragonfly and Stinger II are now trapped there too. Will their vigilante violence infect the planet’s innocent, code-approved culture? And what happens when two heroes want to share Dragonflyman’s civilian identity, billionaire Richard Fame? The agonizing answers will shake Fortune City to its foundations!

Ahoy Comics’ The Wrong Earth series is multiversal hijinks with a heart

In the original The Wrong Earth, the campy lawman Dragonflyman of Earth-Alpha and the gritty vigilante Dragonfly of Earth-Omega accidentally fall through a pair of Megamirrors. When Dragonflyman’s kid sidekick, Stinger, destroys a Megamirror in a misguided attempt to save his mentor, the two heroes are stranded on each other’s Earth.

The Wrong Earth ended on something of a downer note. Faced with both the ghosts of their pasts and the bizarre realities of their new worlds, the two heroes work to find new lives. Dragonfly embraces the campy life to protect Earth-Alpha’s Stinger and starts a relationship with the villain Deuce, who reforms as Lady Dragonflyman.

Meanwhile, on Earth-Omega, the seemingly innocuous Dragonflyman revealed himself to be more crafty than expected. He bribed corrupt cops to protect his identity and took on a new sidekick after learning that Earth-Omega’s original Stinger had killed himself years earlier.

In the sequel series The Wrong Earth: Night and Day, the two heroes find themselves on Earth-Zeta with the authoritarian Man-Dragonfly and a grown Stinger, now known as Nightsting. They’re seemingly stranded on Earth-Zeta along with Stinger, Stinger II, and Lady Dragonflyman when Nightsting, traumatized after years of abuse from Man-Dragonfly, destroys all the Megamirrors to try and trap his former mentor on another Earth.

In 2023’s The Wrong Earth: We Could Be Heroes, Nightsting attempts to rebuild the mirrors that could send everyone home, getting everyone to Earth-Alpha. However, the apparent threat of Man-Dragonfly’s return causes him to panic, and he and Lady Dragonflyman launch into the Megaverse between worlds.

With Nightsting and Lady Dragonflyman unable to return home, it leaves Earth-Omega’s Dragonfly and Stinger II stranded on Earth-Alpha with that world’s original Dragonflyman and Stinger. Though Dragonfly and Dragonflyman have made something of an earnest peace with their differing methods, the strain of both existing on the same world is sure to lead to madness.

The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers #1 hits stands on March 13, 2024, from Ahoy Comics.