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We have also seen Dr Jonathan Crane in Future State: Harley Quinn, having rejected the Scarecrow identity and working for the Magistrate to bring in and incarcerate other Batman villains of Gotham But what will join the two? Spoilers ahead, of course. How Scarecrow Sets Up The Magistrate In Batman Infinite Frontier We have seen Saint Industries[...]

The Future State Justice League has given us a Justice League who (supposedly) know little of each other's lives Knowing each other's secret identities and getting involved romantically, apparently, led to the fall of the original League But under these new rules, not everyone is playing Take Aquawoman, Andy, talking to her mother and father,[...]

From Future State to Infinite Frontier, sales-per-title are up Way up The line is smaller — with fewer editorial staff, it has to be — but per title, per allocated desk space in that empty Burbank building, profitability is up It also helps that some rather pricey exclusive creator deals are also a thing of[...]

Could there be other Kryptonians in the universe? Meanwhile, Atlantean scientists study the wreckage of the Warworld vessel and make a shocking discovery that could change the balance of power on Earth." Who are these Kryptonians? Could DC Future State: Superman: Worlds At War #1 also by Philip Kennedy Johnson give us a clue? As people[...]

There have been a few queries asking how DC Comics' Future State will tie into the rest of the upcoming Infinite Frontier series Midnighter will travel back in time to the DC present day Future State: Gotham will continue Bat-related tales in that future world Batman will see the rise of the Magistrate after The[...]

With an incredibly strong lead story, Future State #2: Green Lantern continues a look at what happens to Green Lanterns when the source of their powers, the very light they shine on the galaxy, goes dark From a brutal war story to an intimate tale of people lost in the dark to "whatever happened to Hal[...]

In a preview for Infinite Frontier #from DC Comics, we see Green Lanterns John Stewart and Simon Bax, and Teen Lantern Keli Quintela heading to Oa. Infinite Frontier #0 Infinite Frontier #0 In today's Future State: Green Lanterns #2, courtesy of Josie Campbell and Andie Tong, we get to see what happens when she gets there So…not that[...]

In previous issues of Future State: Dark Detective from DC Comics, we have seen how Bruce Wayne "died", shot by Peacekeeper 01 on the Gotham docks, and with Wayne able to substitute another random body for his own, before lighting the whole place up, and going to ground But the Magistrate also announce that Batman[...]

Earth Omega time! Today sees the publication of Justice League Future State #2, which sees the Justice League of the future being impersonated by the White Martians Hyperclan Clearly, they need to get their identities back and forger a new Justice League away from the problems that led to this state And Jo Mullein, Green[...]

It's Red X time! As Bleeding Cool mentioned earlier, DC Comics is still keeping the identity of Red X secret – though they did give some more clues in today's Future State: Teen Titans #2 from DC Comics today As we pointed out, is clearly still a mystery in Titans Academy out in March. Infinite Frontier #0 You[...]

It's Nightwing time! Good luck getting a copy of Future State: Teen Titans #2 from DC Comics today, as some folk have been playing silly buggers on eBay and driving the price sky high over the appearance of Red X I mean, not that they are going to reveal who Red X is in this,[...]

Though thanks to DC, Tuesday Titans too.  If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Bestseller List: Future State: The Next Batman #3 Batman always takes the top of the Bestseller List, Future State or not, but Star Wars places twice in the[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you last year, in Future State: Dark Detective, Jason Todd, the Red Hood, has betrayed the Batman family and works as a bounty hunter for The Magistrate as part of their "zero tolerance" policy on masked vigilantes. Red Hood Future State Comic In May This morning, Bleeding Cool told you that in the[...]

The Magistrate and the Peacekeeper programme as seen in DC Future State is a result of people being afraid, of their saviours as much as threats against them And it may well have been the Scarecrow who helped propagate that fear So how come in Harley Quinn, he is so insignificant again? And what happened[...]

Still, for some reason, he and somewhat seasoned law enforcement professionals continue, and that goes … well, pretty predictably Harley, one would suppose. Future State #2: Harley Quinn Cover Credit: DC Comics In defense of Future State #2: Harley Quinn, writer Stephanie Phillips has a fantastic grasp on the titular character The dialogue and choices are really[...]

Spinning out of DC's Future State: Wonder Woman, writer/artist Joëlle Jones returns to Yara Flor, the Wonder Woman of DC Future State before she got to that… state. Joëlle Jones' Wonder Girl As Bleeding Cool promised back in November, Wonder Girl #1 will give the character her own ongoing series, launches on the 18th of May and[...]

The first issue of Future State: Superman Of Metropolis from DC Comics saw Jonathan Kent, the Superman of Earth, trap Metropolis in a Kandor Bottle in order to protect it (as Bleeding Cool told you back in July last year), tricked by Brainiac spinoff AI Brain Cells, with Supergirl getting rather annoyed by it all[...]

It's Future State: Next Batman #3 from DC Comics time… So how much is the Gotham of Future State a proto-version of Mega-City One? With Cybers, drones and militarised forced on the streets, with the masked Peace Keepers taking down anyone (else) with a mask, it shows the influence of another Pat Mills creation as[...]

Future State: Teen Titans #2 is published next week by DC Comics, But already the card cover version featuring Red X has seen one store sell 35 copies for $25 in advance, and another store, A And Z Comics, sell around eighty copies for $20 in advance. Future State: Teen Titans #2 card cover It's not just[...]

Future State: Superman of Metropolis #2 is out this week and a minor spoiler While most of the Future State comic books are looking to the future, for a moment, this looks to the past During Jonathan Kent: Superman's fight with the AI Brain Cells, the Brainiac-wannabe creates clones of Superman of every era to[...]

It's Lex Luthor time! In today's first issue of Superman Vs Imperious Lex #1, as part of DC Comics Future State, we get an ageing Superman from thirty years hence, tracking down an intergalactic menace With big robot Reticulants invading worlds, mining them for their resources, courtesy of Flintstones team Mark Russell and Steve Pugh.  Superman[...]

Everyone in DC Comics Future State seems to be riding Akira motorcycles Whether that's Bruce Wayne, The Dark Detective… Dark Detective #2 artwork by Dan Mora Whizzing through the night… Dark Detective #2 artwork by Dan Mora Or Jason Todd, The Red Hood… Dark Detective #2 art by Giannis Milonogiannis Whizzing through the day. Dark Detective #2 art by Giannis Milonogiannis But they[...]

In the world of Future State from DC Comics, Batman is dead Bruce Wayne is dead But somehow, in Dark Detective, they are still alive, even as Tim Fox – sorry, Jace Fox – is the Next Batman Originally, when this was the new ongoing nature of DC Comics as 5G Bruce Wayne would have[...]

And that's terrible." DC Comics: The Super Dictionary In 2011, Chris Roberson scripted a scene in Superman #709 that showed he remembered that scene very well. Superman #709 More recently in 2019, writer Mark Russell wrote Harley Quinn: Villain Of The Year which showed he remembered it too. Harley Quinn: Villain Of The Year #1 And tomorrow, Mark Russell and Steve[...]

Though thanks to DC, Tuesday Titans too.  If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week King In Black Beats Future State – Bleeding Cool Bestseller List The main King In Black title topped the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List again, beating out Future State[...]

Balancing out the other half of the set up from Future State: Superman of Metropolis, this shows that things in this corner of the DC Universe are pretty messy as well. Future State: Superman: Worlds of War #1 Cover Credit: DC Comics The lead story is kind of the weakest link here: a paean to Superman's myth more[...]

DC Comics continues to build on the Future State momentum this month as four more of their titles are going back to press for new, second printings, Future State: Green Lantern #1, Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1, Future State: Justice League #1 and Future State: Robin Eternal #1 All four will feature new covers[...]

Could this be the start of something… bigger? "Meanwhile, in the Midnighter backup story, the bad boy of the Authority has to figure out what Andrej Trojan is up to in the present if he ever wants to get back to Future State and swap places with the Midnighter of 2021, whom he left stranded on[...]

Especially not Slam Bradley. The Next Batman #2 Seriously, Slam Bradley, you've been a pulp fiction character for almost a hundred years, you know you can't go around saying things like that. FUTURE STATE THE NEXT BATMAN #2 (OF 4) CVR A LADRONN (W) John Ridley – Vita Ayala – Paula Sevenbergen (A) Laura Braga – Aneke – Emanuela[...]

The cells, part of the Magistrate Detention Facility in the near-future Gotham as part of in the DC Future State in today's The Next Batman #2, from DC Comics today. Next Batman #2 artwork And Stephanie Brown is reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin, seventies sci-fi story that is set in two different times, alternating chapter[...]