The villainous Darkseid spreads a "techno-organic virus" that infects the world's computer networks and spreads to humans "through anything with a screen." This new virus, which ultimately infects some 600 million people, causes victims to rip at their own flesh and eventually become overwhelmed with violent rage.
The series is a vehicle for Batman, and focuses on how the crime fighter (who is, unlike his fellow superheroes, only human) can survive a pandemic that alters the human brain.
In February 2020 DC Comics began sales of the second six-issue series in the DCeased universe: "DCeased: Unkillables." The continuation focuses on the supervillains and their reaction to the zombie pandemic. As of this post, "DCeased: Unkillables" has released three issues. In August 2020 "DCeased: the Unkillables" will be sold as a print collection of all the individual issues, marketed as Volume 2 of the collected editions.
As pandemic lockdowns have no doubt taken a large bite from the comic book retail industry, DC Comics on 19 May 2020 began offering an online supplementary series to the DCeased storyline. This web-only comic called "DCeased: Hope at World's End."
The digital "DCeased: Hope at World's End" series will, according to the IGN website quoting from a DC Comic press release, provide "greater insight" into the fates of other heroes fighting the "Anti-Life Zombie Plague," including Superman, Wonder Woman, Robin, and Martian Manhunter. Expected to run for 14 chapters, with one going online each week, "Hope at World's End" is to be accessible via the DC Comics app, Amazon's ComiXology app, and other digital platforms. It is possible that the online comic will someday be released in a print format.
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