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It was soon revealed just what this was to be used for. Generation One, the first of five one-shots that would lead up to Generation Five – or 5G But then DC Comics Publisher Dan DiDio, the man behind this move that would have seen the DC Universe aged up and replaced with younger characters in[...]

DC Comics initially planned to publish Superman & The Authority by Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin as a way into its new 5G publishing initiative, which would see the main DC Comics characters aged up and replaced with newcomers Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash – even The Joker – would all be replaced[...]

It begins with Superman meeting President Kennedy the month of his assassination as Kennedy is planning putting a man on Mars, while Superman becomes part of that year's putting a man on the moon – an event that sees him unable to prevent the assassination of JFK. While the rest of the series, set in the[...]

5G was first mentioned by Bleeding Cool in the summer on 2019 as a major project that DC Comics was planning, it was only when DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio talked about publishing a timeline for DC Comics shared continuity or 'connective tissue' at San Diego, then unveiled the four generations of the DC timeline at New York[...]

In James Tynion IV's subscriber-only Empire Of The Tiny Onion Substack newsletter, he is continuing to talk about his Batman run at DC Comics, as editorial ructions were bursting out around him, including the arrival of 5G – which it seems a number of DC Comics creators were relying on Bleeding Cool to tell them[...]

Well, there's no danger of this week, it's mostly his original overview plans for Batman as submitted to DC Comics when he got the gig. What I will mention, is a few tiny details as to how plans changed, when he was only going to be writing Batman for a year-and-change before the 5G generational relaunch[...]

Bleeding Cool knew that this was all intended to set up the Generations series which would culminate in the 5G relaunch. Then publisher Dan DiDio, behind the 5G initiative, was fired Generations was cancelled 5G was reworked into Future State and Infinite Frontier The new DC timeline was canned And the Free Comic Book Day 2020[...]

It's James Tynion IV time! Bleeding Cool first broke the news of 5G's existence in 2019, as we built up what it was meant to be Generation Five, the fifth generation of DC Comics as seen in the new planned DC Timeline, which would assign major stories a year in which they happened, how old characters were, and in[...]

It's 5G time! In his Tiny Onion newsletter for Substack, James Tynion IV looked at his entire approach to Batman and the history of the characters, dividing it into five generations And about his pitch to take over the Batman book from Tom King for a year-and-a-bit as it was then planned. When I first started[...]

Bleeding Cool first broke the news of 5G's existence in 2019, as we built up what it was meant to be Generation Five, the fifth generation of DC Comics as seen in the new planned DC Timeline, which would assign major stories a year in which they happened, how old characters were, and in the[...]

In recent days, Bleeding Cool has reported that James Tynion IV chose to write DC Vs Vampires as an out of continuity series rather than work on any of the 5G series at DC Comics after it was planned he would stop writing Batman with #100 in time for a reboot by John Ridley with[...]

Bleeding Cool is looking to get more on those actual 5G plans later this week, including how they departed from the current Infinite Frontier plan. World War II is the font of many issues, fixing the JSA in time, something that the New 52 initially fought to get rid of, but there are others as well[...]

Wonder Woman would have debuted during World War II, Superman and Batman much later – but then everyone would age in real-time (ish) from that moment, and the modern-day DC Comics mainstays would be much older, in time for the new legacy characters to take over their roles, and we would have 5G – or[...]

After meticulous study, Bleeding Cool is currently preparing to publish the final, complete DC Timeline that Dan DiDio had planned to run alongside 5G, was published in the pulped Free Comic Book Day title for 2020, and would have defined the DC Universe going forward The moment this tweet hits 100 retweets it will be[...]

Every now and then someone tells me that Bleeding Cool totally made the DC Comics 5G plan up That it was totally fake news That it was never going to happen And every now and then a comic creator pops up and tells people what their 5G plan was s- or was not such as  James[...]

Wonder Woman would have debuted during World War II, Superman and Batman much later- but then everyone would age in real time from that moment, and the modern day DC Comics mainstays would be much older, in time for the new legacy characters to take over their roles, and we would have 5G – or[...]

Williamson now joins a very small coterie of DC Comics creators who admit that 5G existed, it was a real thing – but also that he was going to leave because of it. Dan DiDio and the Five Generation Map of DC Continuity for 5G 5G, as originally scooped by Bleeding Cool, was DC Comics publisher Dan[...]

This new team will have to learn to work together, and fast, as the Ultra-Humanite has formed his own team of villains to take out the Man of Steel. This new limited series will help launch an all-new status quo for Superman, setting up story elements that will impact both Action Comics and Superman: Son of[...]

As a result, there were many hundreds of thousands of copies printed. The book told a longer version of the Flash Forward story that appeared in Flash #750 by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort, that laid out the new DC Multiverse and included the planned DC Comics Timeline for the first four generations that would then[...]

Death Metal #7 originally ended with all those characters aged up, and welcoming their 5G successors But then publisher Dan DiDio was fired, DC lost two editors-in-chief and plenty of senior editorial executives and everything changed. Generations: Forged #1 The Linearverse does all that – but no one gets aged up And the replacement characters in those[...]

This, of course, was the original plan for 5G titles, but Red Hood is the only one so far continuing those stories in its own timeline Are there more to come? Red Hood: Rendered in stark, black and white tones, Future State: Gotham will evoke the gritty, noir aesthetic that reinforces Gotham City as a living,[...]

Imperius Lex, 2070: Superman/Wonder Woman 3000: House of El, Legion of Super-Heroes 4500: Swamp Thing 82,020: Black Adam THE END OF TIME: Immortal Wonder Woman And it's also worth remembering that DC pulped every single copy of the Free Comic Book Day title that listed the original DC Timeline that would have included 5G of Generation Five Not a single copy[...]

The Next Batman #1 is published today, for DC Future State, with its lead feature story featuring this new Batman revisiting some very familiar tropes,

Originally planned as the ongoing status quo for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is notable that some aspects will be continuing over from Future State into DC Infinite, from March 2021. DC Comics Future State Bleeding Cool has heard a few things about Future State that[...]

One of Bleeding Cool's biggest scoops of 2019 was the news that DC Comics was planning a major relaunch called 5G It would have seen the DC Comics Timeline rewritten and expanded allowing stories to be told with many more characters in many more time periods – but also reinvent many lead characters for the[...]

Bleeding Cool featured a previous of the upcoming Batman/Superman comic by Gene Luen Yang, Ivan Reis and Danny Miki to show a variety of "what if?" worlds

Originally planned as the ongoing nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is notable that some aspects will be continuing over from Future State into the DC Comics Omniverse, from March So what do we know of Tim Fox and the rest of the[...]

Originally planned as the ongoing nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is notable that some aspects will be continuing over from Future State into the DC Comics Omniverse, from March. Bleeding Cool has heard a few things about Future State that may suggest what[...]

The other day, Bleeding Cool collected a series of tweets over the years from comic book creator, screenwriter, novelist and actor Geoff Thorne that also

Originally planned to replace Bruce Wayne permanently, as part of Dan DiDio's 5G, it has now been reduced to a two month "What If?" Nevertheless, it has given the character's first appearance a massive boost on eBay As DC Comics reported; Today, the speculation finally ends with the reveal of this surprise variant cover to issue[...]