Teasing for Year 5

It won't be long before Descendants Year 5 will be upon us, bringing with it all new plots, characters and changes to the status quo in the Descendants Universe. So as I did with Year 3, I'm going to give you, the readers a sneak peek at the stuff I've got on tap that will likely (no promises) show up in Year 5.

Find out what I've got in store of you under the cut. POSSIBLE SPOILERS!

The last three issues of Volume 4 are going to be a ride by themselves, blowing wide open two mysteries that have been with the series since the beginning. And bringing several of the seemingly unconnected plotlines set up in late Volume 3/Volume 4 together, showing exactly why this volume was called Confluence.

But what's in store for Volume 5? Well...
 

New Plots!

TOME Returns

In the two-parter that opens Volume 5, including milestone issue Descendants #50, the quiet machinations of Project TOME come to a head that no one in the Descendants Universe will see coming. When it's all done, TOME will reclaim it's place as the primary threat to the Descendants under the new, sinister management of Morgan Flint and the Board of Trustees.

Faerie Expanded

What's been seen of Faerie so far was just a taste of a world just as vast and diverse as our own. While the demon lord of Auckshuld and Colos of the Sai'n'shree attempt to return to Earth, a new threat grows in the part of that world that we're familiar with as an ancient power returns to the world from...
 

The Orrery of Worlds

You've heard of the Green world, I've hinted at the Yellow World, and Earth has been called the Blue World, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. In Volume 5, we learn more about the Yellow World and meet the denizens of the wintry land of Air and Darkness, the Black World.
 

Life at Home

Even with the scope of their foes growing, the Descendants remain human and life does go home. Melissa's misuse of her powers comes to a head, Kareem and Desiree's relationship heats up, Laurel starts dating, Cyn's private war with the Sneak Thief continues, and what happens between Ian and Alexis has to be seen to be believed. Plus on-going plots for Juniper, Lisa, Kay and JC.
 

New Heroes!

Meet and get to know Urban Amazon, The Prismatic Champion, Anansi, Coyote, The Sandwich Man, The Reluctant Wizard-Man, and Due Diligence. And get reacquainted with the Kin, the Outliers, and an old favorite with a new name and look: Sola. Plus, meet the man you've only heard of and seen in publicity spots: Infinity.

 

New Villains!

Introducing Morgan Flint and the Board, the Aqua-Marine, Fourth of Julie, and Doctor Atmosphere.
 

New Minis!

The Second String

A new mini featuring the Whitecoat and some of New York's heroes. Following Networked, 'Coat, Stunner and Screech Owl along with Urban Ranger (now Urban Amazon) have started up a weekly poker game where they meet to share information, commiserate over their roles, and tell their best stories of crime fighting.
 

Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble

As told by Mr. Voice and the woman herself, this mini recounts the story of Zoe McNamara, a depressed young woman with no prospects in life became forged in a war she never fought in into the one woman army that tore a bloody swathe through Europe and how it came to be that a remorseless assassin came to befriend the sainted son of a wealthy French doctor with powers of his own.
 

The Spider's Seven

A dark future is coming that the world's heroes will not be able to stop for if they try, they will perish. So it falls to the capricious Anansi to gather a team of reluctants and ne'er-do-wells to save the superheroes. They have little information and even less trust among them as even their leader offers more questions than answers.

Is Anansi a man or is he a god? And who or what is Oblivion?
 

A New Oneshot!

Red, Whitecoat and Blue

Brooklyn's Defender only wanted to sit back and enjoy the tricentennial with his best girl, but of course, the world doesn't work that way for him. Instead, he finds himself mentoring a government superhero who's never done the job before against a little woman out to make a big stink out of her own jingoism. 


Introducing: Sam Maxx: The Patriotic Man and Fourth of Julie.

 

More Liedecker Institute!

The kids are alright and their limited series will continue with plenty of high school drama, character driven stories, and the occasional evil plot. For example: who knew that Eddie would be so sought after by bad dudes with syringes? Or that one of the teachers might be a supervillain?