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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[...]

It's future Flash time… 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is notable[...]

In January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is[...]

In January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is[...]

Because in January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it[...]

It's future Superman time! In January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months[...]

Because in January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it[...]

Because in January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it[...]

Because in January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it[...]

Because in January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it[...]

Gotham time! 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is notable that[...]

In January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is[...]

Time to look at the Next Batman, Tim Fox and the rest of the Fox family, ahead of the DC Comics' Future State event, starting on Jan 6th 2021 Because 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[...]

In January and February, 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 nature for these titles as 5G or Generation Five, it was truncated into two months instead However, it is[...]

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

Or rather, the Next Batman, as part of the two-month Future State initiative in January and February 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[...]

Instead, his run as Batman will be restricted to the two months of Future State in January and February Of course, he could return as part of the DC Omniverse DC Comics has stated that; Today, the speculation finally ends with the reveal of this surprise variant cover to issue #2 of the four-issue January/February miniseries[...]

But none of the bad habits demonstrated by some creators from those fields. DC and Dan DiDio's Big Change One Year On – How Did We Do? Well, Dan was fired, and the 5G relaunch morphed into the Future State two month event, but his talent drive lived on With 2020 hindsight (and a little 2021 hindsight)[...]

At the weekend, it was announced that Geoffrey Thorne – or Geoff Thorne – the solicited writer for the John Stewart Green Lantern Corps story in the Future State: Green Lantern anthology – would be writing the new ongoing Green Lantern series featuring John Stewart in March Geoff Thorne is someone Bleeding Cool originally highlighted[...]

Well, Justice League Dark will still be published in March possibly with a new #1 and still written by Ram V, who has currently writer on the series and on the Future State stories The new series will be drawn by Xermanico Ram V tweets "So yes! Also confirmed at the CCXP panel Justice League[...]

The DC Comics solicitations for Future State: Green Lantern #1 and 2 state "Assigned to map and contact new lifeforms past the 3,600 known sectors of space protected by the Green Lantern Corps, John Stewart and an elite team of Lanterns are trapped behind enemy lines and fighting for their lives when the Central Power[...]

The solicitation for Future State: Teen Titans #2 states "Red X returns to the Teen Titans! The mysterious former Teen Titans Academy student joins the surviving Titans in a final fight to stop the threat unleashed by one of the school's students Nightwing, Raven, Crush, Shazam, Starfire, Cybeast, and Red Arrow face their demons as[...]

In fact Scott Snyder does seem to have his own name for what is to follow DC Future State in March (including Swamp Thing and Suicide Squad from the same writers and some of the same artists who worked on the Future State versions of those books). Scott Snyder is calling it DC 2021 Which may[...]

The Suicide Squad #1 will be written by Robbie Thompson, pencilled by Eduardo Pansica, inked by Júlio Ferreira, and coloured by Marcelo Maiolo. Like Ram V on Swamp Thing, Robbie Thompson is writing the Future State version of the Suicide Squad series and it appears he will be continuing that with the post-Future State version, though[...]

Thanks to the CCXP comic con panels playing out, we get the news of the first new series launching from DC Comics in March 2021, to follow Future State The new post-Future State series will be written by Ram V, drawn by Mike Perkins, coloured by Mike Spicer and lettered by Aditya Bidikar (UPDATE: The[...]

A few more big comic books coming down the pipe and being lined up by Marvel and DC Comics from September 2021 onwards. And with The Next Batman featuring

The lead-ins to all of January's DC Future State comic books lead in with the words "The Multiverse has been saved from the brink of destruction With victory comes new possibilities as the triumph of our heroes shakes loose the very fabric of time and space From the ashes of Death Metal comes new life[...]

And that the new Batman would be the son of Lucius Fox – Luke Fox we presumed at the time. Then everything changed, DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio and instigator of 5G was fired, and 5G was canned, some of the planned material truncated and reassigned to the already-planned two-month editorial gap ahead of the 5G,[...]

So how well is DC Future State going to do in January and February? The publisher has made all the comic books, released on a biweekly schedule through January and February – and then a straggler at the end of March, returnable The returnability should help retailers to order with more confidence than they otherwise[...]