After a one-page teaser in last month’s DC Connect magazine, DC Comics has announced details on Future State, their forthcoming line-wide event. An immediate follow-up to Dark Nights: Death Metal, Future State will present future and alternate versions of the heroes of the DC Universe in a series of miniseries and anthology titles, which will replace the publisher’s regular monthly titles for two months in January and February 2021.

DC Future State

Here’s how DC describes Future State:

In DC Future State, the Multiverse has been saved from the brink of destruction, but the triumph of DC’s heroes has shaken loose the very fabric of time and space! The final chapter of Dark Nights: Death Metal (on sale January 5, 2021)  brings new life to DC’s Multiverse, kicking off this glimpse into the unwritten worlds of DC’s future!

The previously teased John Ridley & Nick Derington Batman series will be a part of a Future State anthology title called The Next Batman. Other creative teams include Mariko Tamaki and Dan Mora contributing to another anthology title called Dark Detective, (the pair had a prelude story in Detective Comics #1027), a Nightwing series by Andrew Constant and Nicola Scott (who’s been known to draw Nightwing’s most famous asset in the past), Becky Cloonan writing Midnighter and Wonder Woman in separate anthology titles, Superman vs. Imperius Lex by the Flintstones team of Mark Russell and Steve Pugh, and a Wonder Woman miniseries written and illustrated by Joëlle Jones, among many, many other titles.

Check out the full title, concept, and cover art for Future State below. The event kicks off in January 2021.

Batman Family

In this future, Gotham City is controlled by the Magistrate. This villainous regime has taken control of the city, now under constant surveillance. All masked vigilantes have been outlawed and Batman has been killed. But led by an all-new Batman, a new assembly of Gotham’s guardians rise to give hope to all of those who lost it!

Oversized Comics:

  • Future State: The Next Batman #1-4
    • The Next Batman, by John Ridley, Nick Derington and Laura Braga
    • Outsiders, by Brandon Thomas and Sumit Kumar
    • Arkham Knights, by Paul Jenkins and Jack Herbert
    • Batgirls, by Vita Ayala and Aneke
    • Gotham City Sirens, by Paula Sevenbergen and Emanuela Lupacchino

  • Future State: Dark Detective #1-4
    • Dark Detective, by Mariko Tamaki and Dan Mora
    • Grifters, by Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine di Giandomenico
    • Red Hood, by Joshua Williamson and Giannis Milonogiannis

Monthly Miniseries:

  • Future State: Batman/Superman, by Gene Luen Yang and Ben Oliver
  • Future State: Catwoman, by Ram V and Otto Schmidt
  • Future State: Harley Quinn, by Stephanie Phillips and Simone Di Meo
  • Future State: Nightwing, by Andrew Constant and Nicola Scott
  • Future State: Robin Eternal, by Meghan Fitzmartin and Eddy Barrows

Superman Family

Due to his involvement in an international crisis happening in the near future, Clark Kent has been rejected by Earth, causing him to focus his lifesaving efforts outside his adopted home. He travels to Warworld to rise through the ranks of gladiatorial combat in order to defeat Mongul with the help of some unlikely heroes. Back in Metropolis, Clark’s son Jon has taken on the mantle of Superman. After seeing the horrors that befell Gotham, he bottles Metropolis in order to keep it safe, putting him at odds with Supergirl.

Connecting the two oversized Future State: Superman titles, Shilo Norman, the man known as Mister Miracle, finds himself caught between the city he grew up in and the battle-torn planet that could be his downfall.

Meanwhile in the Amazon rainforest, Yara Flor is chosen to be the new Wonder Woman. Years later, the new Superman and Wonder Woman join forces to save their cities in a new superhero team-up the likes of which the world has never seen.

Oversized Comics:

  • Future State: Superman of Metropolis #1-2
    • Superman of Metropolis, by Sean Lewis and John Timms
    • The Guardian, by Sean Lewis and Cully Hamner
    • Mister Miracle, by Brandon Easton and Valentine De Landro

  • Future State: Superman: Worlds of War #1-4
    • Superman: Worlds of War, by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Mikel Janin
    • Midnighter, by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Gleb Melnikov
    • Black Racer, by Jeremy Adams and Siya Oum
    • Mister Miracle, by Brandon Easton and Valentine De Landro

  • Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1-2
    • Immortal Wonder Woman, by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Jen Bartel
    • Nubia, by L.L. McKinney, Alitha E. Martinez and Mark Morales

Monthly Miniseries and One-Shots

  • Future State: House of El, by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Scott Godlewski (one-shot on sale February)
  • Future State: Kara Zor-El, Superwoman, by Marguerite Bennett and Marguerite Sauvage
  • Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes, by Brian Michael Bendis and Riley Rossmo
  • Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman, by Dan Watters and Leila del Duca
  • Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex, by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh (3-issue series ending March 2021)
  • Future State: Wonder Woman, by Joëlle Jones

Justice League Family

A thread of great change runs through the Justice League heroes: a new League is built upon secret identities (even from each other), but an old and evolved enemy will use these secrets to try and overthrow the world. For the supernatural heroes of Justice League Dark, the very fabric of reality has shifted, and heroes are being hunted.

For Flash, Shazam, and the Teen Titans, it all begins when the four Riders of the Apocalypse unleash hell in a battle at Titans Academy, Barry Allen is cut off from the Speed Force, a Famine-controlled Wally West may be beyond saving, and Billy Batson makes a deal with the devil that will change Shazam forever. Off-world, John Stewart and the remaining Green Lanterns are stranded in the shadow of a dead power battery; Jackson Hyde and Andy Curry are separated across the galaxy; and Amanda Waller executes her ultimate plan with a new but terrifyingly familiar Suicide Squad on Earth-3.

At the end of time, Swamp Thing reveals its true intention, ruling supreme until a remnant of humanity launches a rebellion, and Black Adam looks to the past as the only way to save the future of the Multiverse.

Oversized Comics:

  • Future State: Justice League #1-2
    • Justice League, by Joshua Williamson and Robson Rocha
    • Justice League Dark, by Ram V and Marcio Takara

  • Future State: Green Lantern #1-2
    • Last Lanterns, by Geoffrey Thorne and Tom Raney
    • Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, by Josie Campbell, Ryan Cady and Ernie Altbacker, with Sami Basri and Clayton Henry

  • Future State: Suicide Squad #1-2
    • Suicide Squad, by Robbie Thompson and Javi Fernandez
    • Black Adam, by Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin

Monthly Miniseries:

  • Future State: Aquaman, by Brandon Thomas and Daniel Sampere
  • Future State: The Flash, by Brandon Vietti and Dale Eaglesham
  • Future State: Teen Titans, by Tim Sheridan and Rafa Sandoval
  • Future State: SHAZAM!, by Tim Sheridan and Eduardo Pansica
  • Future State: Swamp Thing, by Ram V and Mike Perkins

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4 COMMENTS

  1. So basically this is what they’re doing with all of the 5G work that had been completed before DiDio was fired.

  2. Good lord. Is that not literally what Marvel did with “Age of Apocalypse” two decades ago?

    “their forthcoming line-wide event. An immediate follow-up to Dark Nights: Death Metal, Future State will present future and alternate versions of the heroes of the DC Universe in a series of miniseries and anthology titles, which will replace the publisher’s regular monthly titles for two months in January and February 2021.”

    Bleech. Stop the insanity! Are people still rushing to get these events? Which are just re-hashes and fan-fic approaches to previously existing storylines? Marvel is just as bad. I joked to a friend that the next thing they’d re-do would be “Acts of Vengeance” and he said, “oh, they just did a new version of that” (looks like The Evolutionary War is next!).

    The Big 2 are creatively bankrupt. They strip mine the past wayyy too much and it’s the same old, same old. I wish a publisher like Valiant once was would come back and just organically build new stories. Sigh.

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