DC Comics and Penguin Random House Audio have announced a new, full-cast audio adaptation of Mark Waid and Alex Ross‘s legendary 1996 series Kingdom Come, directed by Dirk Maggs. Due out November 18, 2025, the new dramatization will feature over 30 actors, sound effects, and an original score by James Hannigan (who previously worked with Maggs on The Sandman audiobook.)
In Kingdom Come, we see an alternate future where our heroes have retired, long since withdrawn from the public eye. Yet in their wake, crime is kept at bay by a group who is anything but heroic — whose take on justice renders them as immoral and dangerous as the criminals themselves. Unable to stand aside any longer, Superman and the Justice League return to the fight, reminding the world what justice truly means.
Maggs states, “I’ve been adapting and directing multicast, award-winning audiobooks of iconic DC Comics Superman and Batman stories for more than three decades, but among them all, Kingdom Come was always the one that got away. At last, thanks to Penguin Random House Audio, I can tell Mark Waid’s epic story, with Alex Ross’s beautiful artwork brought alive through cinematic sound design combined with James Hannigan’s stirring orchestral score.”
The project will see Marc Thompson, who starred in DC and Random House Audio’s first collaboration (All-Star Superman) earlier this year, reprise the role of the Man of Steel. Other cast members will include Glenn Wrage as Batman, Lorelei King as Wonder Woman, Kerry Shale as the Spectre, William DeMeritt as Billy Batson, Edoardo Ballerini (The Sopranos) as Norman McCay, Garrick Hagon as Wesley Dodds, Tom Alexander as Magog, John Chancer as UN Secretary Wyrmwood, and Ray Porter (formerly Zack Snyder‘s Darkseid) as Lex Luthor.
Prior to this, Kingdom Come had been adapted into a 1998 audio drama by Hatchette Audio, based on the book’s prose novelization by Elliot S. Maggin. While elements of it have been borrowed by other media, such as the Arrowverse crossover “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” Kingdom Come has not been adapted into a film, animated or otherwise (something Bruce Timm stated was because of budgetary reasons in 2017), meaning this will mark only the second bona fide adaptation of the story. Waid himself provided his voice for the 1998 version, which featured several cameos from other comics creators and editors, but whether this will also be the case for the new audiobook remains to be seen.
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