Lazarus Planet is in full swing at DC. The event, which sees a mystical storm shake the rules o🌃f the DCU, is chronicled in several of the publisher's January offerings. However, there are already glimmers of sun at the edge of the rainclouds, as the culmination of the storyline is set to hit comic shelves Feb📖ruary 21.

Lazarus Planet Omega is written by Mark Waid, drawn by Riccardo Federici and Mike Perkins, colored by Brad Anderson, and lettered by Steve Wands. The issue is a direct follow-up to Lazarus Planet Alpha, which left new villain King Fire Bull facing off against Damian 🥂Wayne, the heroes of the DCU dis🍸persed, and Bruce Wayne possessed by the wicked Devil Nezha.

Newsarama re🐻cently sat down with writer and Lazarus Planet orchestrator ♔Mark Waid, who spoke to us about a surprise star of the story and how the event will affect a certain father/son vigilante duo moving forward. 

Read on to hear what he had to say and take a look at a few pages from the special🤡.&nbs⭕p;

Grant DeArmitt for Newsarama: Mark, were you involved at all in the other Lazarus Planet books? This event had a lot of tie-ins.

Mark Waid: Yes, but only as a backstop. I gave the writ🌄ers as liberal a set o🌄f guidelines as I could possibly give them. I read things on the back end just to make sure that things meshed with other things, or that characters weren't suddenly in someplace they shouldn't be. Other than that, these writers and artists had their own rules.

Nrama: Gotcha. Last we spoke about Lazarus Planet, we touched on magic, its rules and costs. Bouncing off that, what is the cost of magic for villains like King Fire Bull and the Devil Nezha?

Nrama: Okay. Also, at the end of Lazarus Planet Alpha, we see Batman possessed by the Devil Nezha. Is that possession similar to how he possessed Damien? Meaning there's still part of Bruce in there, but a warped and manipulated version?

Waid: 🦄No, this is just straight-up possession. This is just Nezha not having enough juice in the tank anymore to command superheroes like puppets. Thi🤡s is his last gasp. It means inhabiting Batman fully and wholly. If there's anything of Bruce left in there, it's microscopic.

Nrama: How will that change Batman and Robin's dynamic moving into Batman Vs. Robin #5, which is a direct follow-up to Lazarus Planet Omega? 

Waid: Well, now [Batman] is dea💟d. He's dead. The spirit of magic in him is the only thing that is keeping him ambulatory. Once you take that out of him, he will die. There's no other way around it. That's the dilemma that Damian has to face in the final issue of Batman Vs. Robin.

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