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We have not yet seen what they did to Lucius Fox. The Next Batman #2 artwork A little retroactive law never hurt anyone, did it? But we have the revenge motive for the Fox family to turn against the Batfamily – even when the sons are, unknown, totally part of it. The Next Batman #2 artwork Finding a legally[...]

Back in November, the DC Comics Future State preview book revealed the full DC Future State timeline and what book goes where It didn't get a lot of play, but now seems the perfect time to reel it out again, letting us know which book goes where And Bleeding Cool cut them up and put[...]

The current DC Future State books reveal a Gotham transformed, with Mayor Nakano hiring The Magistrate to create a fascist police state, banning all vigilantes and (supposedly) killing Batman, with armed mercenary forces, drones and robocop-type figures, made immortal by Lazarus resins, and led by Peacekeepers The technology was created by Wayne enterprises under Lucius[...]

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 Future State Tops Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – Dark Detective #1 DC Comics' Death Metal and DC Future State dominates the top ten again – but Space Bastards[...]

Shows like The Blacklist or movies like Silence of the Lambs have played with the tropes of "using a monster to catch monsters." Future State: Harley Quinn #1 is a rather clever manipulation of pop culture concepts casts "daddy's little monster" as Red Reddington in a brilliant manipulation of things that only a criminal/psychologist could[...]

DC Comics has started to let folk know about their April 2021 solicitations, showing how Tim Fox will become the Next Batman with the first series continuing from DC's Future State As well as Damian Wayne getting his first solo series and answering all those questions about what happened to him, after leaving the Robin[...]

In last week's Future State: Wonder Woman, we met up with Yara Flor, the new Wonder Girl and future Wonder Woman, as she traipsed through the Brazilian rainforests meeting up with Brazilian mythical creatures and gods, and a trip to Hades in the fashion of a small city airport It was a little wackier than[...]

And rise the demon Etrigan!" This week's Future State: Justice League #1 changes that up, as they find the future fate of angel and Justice League member, Zauriel And Detective Chimp has something to say to that. Future State: Justice League Dark #1 As we discover just who Etrigan will be bound to in the near future[...]

DC Future State has seen DC Comics jump forward all their books by years to see future versions of the characters Originally this would have been the DC Universe going forward, dubbed 5G, but that all changed last year, so you get a concentrated two-month burst of all the titles instead So how has all[...]

Three more of DC's Future State titles have gone back for a second printing, two from this week, one from last week – Teen Titans, Superwoman and The Flash. All are for this week's FOC – which is three days earlier than usual, set for midnight tomorrow. FUTURE STATE TEEN TITANS #1 (OF 2) Second Printing Retail: $3.99 1120DC841 |[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you last year, in the world of the DC Future State, in Future State: Justice League we are told that Tim Fox, the Next Batman, would be the Batman who would truly save Gotham, something Bruce Wayne could not do Which may spoil what's going on in Dark Detective and Next[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you last year, in the world of the DC Future State, that Jason Todd is working with the Magistrate – taking down masks like Vigilante and involved with Ravager, Rose Wilson, daughter of Deathstroke That Nightwing was placed in Arkham Asylum on "A-Day" but escaped, is leading a Resistance against the[...]

In last week's Future State: Superman Of Metropolis, we got to see Supergirl going up against Jonathan Kent, the new Superman Now, she was all hopped up on Nirodhium at the time… Future State: Superman Of Metropolis #1 You know, the stuff that does bad things to pure Kryptonians… Future State: Superman Of Metropolis #1 …and makes them instinctively[...]

Today sees the launch of the new Future State: Justice League #1, combining all the future versions of the Justice Leaguers – who once upon a time when this was known as 5G would have been the Justice League going forward And we get to see where they are all at in their respective timelines. Future[...]

As Bleeding Cool previously stated "Jo Mullein has the reputation of uniting the Green Lantern Corps in time to solve Oa's greatest mystery, is the ring loss that mystery?" and in today's Future State: Justice League from DC Comics, you get a glimpse of that. Future State: Justice League #1 As well as Jo Mullein at work[...]

The type who travel in helicopters to avoid the people they govern and the protests they generate." Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman #1 And today's Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman #1 from DC Comics set in that near future reveals all We had previously seen the future Wonder Woman, Yara Flor, in the Brazilain rainforests dealing with gods and[...]

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 Credit: Greg Capullo DC Comics' Death Metal and DC Future State dominate the top ten, but Spider-Man, Star Wars and Donny Cates Thor, Venom and Crossover makes it[...]

DC Comics has told retailers that a number of their sold-out Future State titles are going to a second print That several of the week one Future State issues are going back to press for second printings.  On top of that, DC is sending two upcoming titles that are projected to sell out back to press[...]

Future State Wonder Woman may be the maddest of all the Future State comic books launched by DC Comics Because they all pretty much take a sci-fi approach, even the likes of Justice League Dark, aside from Future State Wonder Woman, featuring the new Brazilian Wonder Woman, Yara Flor Set a few years in the[...]

Today sees the publication of Ram V, Mike Perkins, June Chung and Aditya Bidikar's Future State: Swamp Thing from DC Comics Going forward thousands of years to a world that Swamp Thing either saved or destroyed, depending on your perspective With a Swamp Thing who has solved problems that initially vexed him And it goes[...]

I mentioned something in one of my Future State gossip columns about upcoming Superman comics that exploded in my inbox The Time Luchadores Today we get to see them as Supergirl squares up to Jonathan Kent, the new Superman, in today's Future State: Superman Of Metropolis by Sean Lewis, John Timms, Gabe Eltaeb, and Dave Sharpe. But[...]

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, courtesy of 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley, Doom Patrol artist Nick Derington, colours by Tamra Bonvillian and letters by Clayton Cowles. Credit: DC Whether that be from The Dark Knight[...]

Many folks are planning on picking up Future State: Wonder Woman #1, out from DC Comics tomorrow, for the first appearance of Yara Flor, the new Brazilian Wonder Woman, who will appear as Wonder Girl from now on into the DC Omniverse. Many folks are also excited about Future State: The Next Batman featuring the first[...]

DC Comics will be running a two-month event, Future State, looking at potential and possible futures for the DC Universe, their most prominent characters and their successors 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[...]

Because instead much of it was repurposed as the Future State event two-month event – while the planned two-month event Endless Winter was also shrunk back into a mini-event. YouTube screencap – Phillip Kennedy Johnson None of this has been officially confirmed of course, and DC Comics does not admit that 5G even ever existed[...]

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

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on early sales on next week's DC Comics titles at a number of comic book stores, selling Death Metal #7 and Future State titles one week ahead of time, breaking street dates In the comments, we heard from Tony's Kingdom, a comic book store in Keizer, Oregon. Honestly, I almost put next[...]

DC's new Superman writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson, whose Future State book House Of El will be out in February recently appeared on John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast, was asked about Future State, 5G – and the future of Superman Including what happens to this Man Of Tomorrow… tomorrow He told Siuntres, If you want to tie[...]

Is DC Comics' Future State already here? Earlier today, Bleeding Cool reported on Death Metal #7 being on sale in certain comic book stores choosing to ignore the street date of next Tuesday now that there are no incentives not to do so, and were merrily selling copies, willy and nilly There was also mention[...]

When the character appears on the newsstands in her own title some months later, this should strike a suitably ominous resonance back to the Twilight storyline; is it all coming true? Future State seems to be working like that, for Batman at least And you can read our Batman Future State gossip here and here[...]