The iconic four-issue limited series is the next property to be adapted for a fully immersive audio experience
NEW YORK, NY (September 4, 2025) – Following this summer’s release of the audio adaptation of All-Star Superman—praised by IGN as “an emotional and powerful telling” with “top-tier full-cast narration”—DC and Penguin Random House Audio announce their next joint project, the upcoming audiobook production of Kingdom Come (on sale November 18, 2025; Random House Audio). The critically acclaimed 1996 limited comic book series from Mark Waid and Alex Ross is adapted for audiobook listeners by Dirk Maggs, whose lauded career spans from BBC radio dramas that changed the landscape of the industry to his own comic book audio adaptations. Maggs’s rendition of Kingdom Come will be brought to life with a cast of over thirty actors, supported by original music and sound effects.
“I’ve been adapting and directing multicast, award-winning audiobooks of iconic DC Comics Superman and Batman stories for more than three decades,” says Maggs, “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.”
This sophomore audiobook production in the ongoing collaboration between DC and Penguin Random House Audio succeeds the seminal Superman story with an equally iconic Justice League tale, expanding the audiobook world to introduce voices for Batman and Wonder Woman, among others. Accomplished voice actor Marc Thompson—known for his extensive work with Star Wars audiobooks, in addition to memorable roles with Pokémon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more—will reprise the role of Superman after leading the cast of the June 2025 All-Star Superman audiobook, alongside additional renowned names such as Edoardo Ballerini, Lorelei King, Ray Porter, and more.
In Kingdom Come, we see an alternate future where our heroes have retired, long since withdrawn from the public eye.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.
Marc Thompson as Superman/Clark Kent
Glenn Wrage as Batman/Bruce Wayne
Lorelei King as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince
Kerry Shale as The Spectre/Jim Corrigan
William DeMeritt as Billy Batson
Edoardo Ballerini as Norman McCay
Garrick Hagon as Wesley Dodds
Tom Alexander as Magog
John Chancer as UN Secretary Wyrmwood
And Ray Porter as Lex Luthor
With
Nezar Alderazi
Jennifer Armour
Karen Bartke
Laurence Bouvard
Torian Brackett
Reba Buhr
E.A. Castillo
Joe Duley
Vas Eli
Ashleigh Haddad
David Holt
David Lee Huynh
JD Jackson
January LaVoy
Laurel Lefkow
Tim Lounibos
Theo Maggs
Alan Marriott
Eric Meyers
Kai Christian Mortiz
Harry Myers
KINGDOM COME
Written by Mark Waid and drawn by Alex Ross
Adapted by Dirk Maggs
Read by a full cast
Random House Audio | Audio Download ISBN: 9780593915103
BOT | Library Audio Download ISBN: 9780593915097
On sale November 18, 2025
Also available in print from DC Comics
About Penguin Random House Audio
As the premier publisher in the audiobook industry, Penguin Random House Audio is dedicated to producing top-quality fiction and nonfiction audiobooks written and read by the best in the business, including books by bestselling authors like Brené Brown, James Clear, John Grisham, Ali Hazelwood, Emily Henry, George R. R. Martin, Toni Morrison, Celeste Ng, Colson Whitehead, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, and First Lady Michelle Obama. Our audiobooks have won 19 GRAMMY® Awards, 117 Audie® Awards, and 29 Odyssey Awards and Honors. Random House Audio, Penguin Audio, Listening Library, and Books on Tape are imprints of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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