DC Comics‘ New 52 is heading to the future, five years to be exact. DC announced today The New 52: Futures End, a weekly comic from writers Jeff Lemire, Keith Giffen, Brian Azzarello and Dan Jurgens to examine how heroes change with the passing of time and technology.
The New 52: Futures End, debuts on Free Comic Book Day in May with a free zero issue, with the first issue of series hitting shelves and digital storefronts later that month. It is the second weekly book announced by DC for 2014. Batman: Eternal, launches in the spring to celebrate Batman’s 75th anniversary.
The past will be explored with a character like Frankenstein, the present with Firestorm and the future with Batman Beyond who is making his first “in-continuity appearance.” But, that’s just an example, there’s a whole lot more going on, the cast is quite large.
Artists on the series include Ethan Van Sciver, drawing the zero issue, along with Jesus Merino, Aaron Lopresti and Jurgens, among others who will be added as the series goes from one issue to the next, every week.
At ComicsPro in Atlanta, GA today, DC Entertainment revealed that this September 3-D motion covers are returning in an even bigger and better way! Due to the “success” of 2013’s “Villains Month” 3-D motion covers, DC is going to give the technology a second spin.