After some squawking over forcing retailers to order September’s “Future’s End” event comics blind due to the time needed to manufacture the lenticular covers, DC has revealed all the lineups and even a few covers. It’s the usual blend of mainstays, with a few yeoman back-ups. In other words, you must be reliable. As for whats in the stories, you can rely on a full array of face sewing, limb chopping, insect-leg attaching action as you like it!
ACTION COMICS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Sholly Fisch
Penciller: Pascal Alixe
Cover: Lee Weeks
AQUAMAN AND THE OTHERS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciller: Sean Chen
Inker: Mark Irwin
Cover: Yvel Guichet
AQUAMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciller: Alvaro Martinez
Inker: Raúl Fernández
Cover: Yvel Guichet
BATGIRL: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Gail Simone
Penciller: Javier Garron
Inker: Javier Garron
Cover: Clay Mann
BATMAN AND ROBIN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Ray Fawkes
Penciller: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Dustin Nguyen
Cover: Pat Gleason & Mick Gray
BATMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Scott Snyder & Ray Fawkes
Penciller: Aco
Inker: Aco
Cover: Jay Fabok
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Greg Pak
Penciller: Howard Porter
Cover: Aaron Kuder
BATWING: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray
Penciller: Eduardo Pansica
Inker: Julio Ferreira
Cover: Dan Panosian
BATWOMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Marc Andreyko
Penciller: Jason Masters
Inker: Jason Masters
Cover: Rafael Albuquerque
BIRDS OF PREY: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Christy Marx
Penciller: Robson Rocha
Inker: Oclair Albert
Cover: Dan Panosian
BOOSTER GOLD: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciller: Moritat, Steve Lightle, Stephen Thompson, Mark Irwin, Ron Frenz, Brett Booth
Cover: Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund
CATWOMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Sholly Fisch
Penciller: Patrick Olliffe
Inker: Tom Nguyen
Cover: Terry & Rachel Dodson
CONSTANTINE: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Ray Fawkes
Penciller: Juan Ferreyra
Inker: Juan Ferreyra
Cover: Juan Ferreyra
DETECTIVE COMICS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato
Penciller: Scott Hepburn
Inker: Scott Hepbuirn
Cover: Jay Fabok
EARTH 2: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Daniel H. Wilson
Penciller: Eddy Barrows
Inker: Eber Ferreira
Cover: Giuseppe Camuncoli
THE FLASH: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Robert Venditti/Van Jensen
Penciller: Brett Booth
Inker: Norm Rapmund
Cover: Booth/Rapmund
GRAYSON: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Tom King
Penciller: Stephen Mooney
Inker: Stephen Mooney
Cover: Andrew Robinson
GREEN ARROW: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Penciller: Andrea Sorrentino
Inker: Andrea Sorrentino
Cover: Andrea Sorrentino
GREEN LANTERN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Robert Venditti
Penciller: Martin Coccolo
Cover: Billy Tan
GREEN LANTERN CORPS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Van Jensen
Penciller: Igor Lima
Inker: Ruy José
Cover: Francis Portela
GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Justin Jordan
Penciller: Dio Neves
Inker: Marc Deering
Cover: Diogenes Neves, Deering inks
HARLEY QUINN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti
Penciller: Chad Hardin
Inker: Chad Hardin
Cover: Amanda Conner
INFINITY MAN AND THE FOREVER PEOPLE: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Dan DiDio
Penciller: Philip Tan
Inker: Jason Paz
Cover: Howard Porter
JUSTICE LEAGUE: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Penciller: Jedd Dougherty
Inker: Jedd Dougherty
Cover: Mike McKone
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK: FUTURES END #1
Writer: J.M. DeMatteis
Penciller: Andres Guinaldo
Inker: Walden Wong
Cover: Juan Ferreyra
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Penciller: Jedd Dougherty
Inker: Jedd Dougherty
Cover: Mike McKone
NEW SUICIDE SQUAD: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Sean Ryan
Penciller: Andre Coelho
Inker: Scott Hanna
Cover: Jeremy Roberts
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Scott Lobdell
Penciller: Scott Kolins
Inker: Scott Kolins
Cover: Giuseppe Camuncoli
RED LANTERNS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Charles Soule
Penciller: Jim Califiore
Inker: Jim Califiore
Cover: Scott Hepburn
SINESTRO: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Penciller: Igor Lima
Inker: Ruy José
Cover: Kevin Nowlan
STAR-SPANGLED WAR STORIES FEATURING G.I. ZOMBIE: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray
Penciller: Scott Hampton
Inker: Scott Hampton
Cover: Dave Johnson
SUPERBOY: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Frank Barberie
Penciller: Tyler Kirkham
Cover: Jorge Jimenez
SUPERGIRL: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Tony Bedard
Penciller: Ema Lupacchino
Cover: Giuseppe Camuncoli
SUPERMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciller: Lee L Weeks
Cover: Ken Lashley
SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Charles Soule
Penciller: Tom Raney
Inker: Tom Raney
Cover: Tom Raney
SWAMP THING: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Charles Soule
Penciller: Jesús Saíz
Inker: Jesús Saíz
Cover: Jesús Saíz
TEEN TITANS: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Will Pfeifer
Penciller: Andy Smith
Cover: Karl Kerschl
TRINITY OF SIN: PANDORA: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Ray Fawkes
Penciller: Francis Portela
Inker: Francis Portela
Cover: Guillem March
TRINITY OF SIN: PHANTOM STRANGER: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Dan DiDio / J.M. DeMatteis
Penciller: Phil Winslade
Inker: Phil Winslade
Cover: Guillem March
WONDER WOMAN: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Charles Soule
Penciller: Rags Morales
Inker: Rags Morales
Cover: Tom Raney
WORLDS’ FINEST: FUTURES END #1
Writer: Paul Levitz
Penciller: Yildiray Cinar
Inker: Paul Neary
Cover: Stephen Segovia
Updated to add: these covers are absolutely hideous.
This is a joke, right? Like someone at DC missed the “April 1” deadline for an April Fool’s joke and decided to just go ahead and do the bit anyway?
Is it a bad thing to say I have no clue who 85% of these artists/pencillers are, anymore? I might be picking up a couple, but that’s about it. Giant kudos to the regular creative teams sticking around to do these special issues (Green Arrow, and Swamp Thing come to mind!)
So, not just 3D effects, but also animation/time-lapse stuff, which sorta makes it 4D. Will they do 5D covers next year?
Interesting to see Charles Soule write the Wonder Woman issue along with the Superman/Wonderwoman issue.
Andrea Sorrentino appears to be one of the few artists out there able to crank out high quality work every single month and never need a month off. Kudos!
Not Final Order Cutoff. Orders are due May 29th.
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41 titles. Does that cover (HA!) every New 52 ongoing title?
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Why didn’t they animate the DC peel?
Why not animate the DC peel into a future logo?!
Then use THAT on merchandise.
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Is that a scroll in your pocket, Johnny?
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Hmm…
Since this is an alternative timeline series, couldn’t DC have changed the trade dress? (See: DC One Million)
There’s a lot of wasted space here… The vertical UPC sets the width of the frame, when it could have been moved to the top, making the circuitry of the event title morph into the barcode, situated in the upper right corner.
Since these are one-shots and are tied into the event, DC doesn’t need that big “#1” on the cover. People will buy it because of the eye-catching cover and/or the event.
Since the character(s) is front and center, you don’t really need the logo. Work the title into the barcode box. Title, number, price. Or use the event typeface and add the title to that banner.
Hmmm… I guess it’s too late to insert an RFID tag into the cover? A secret code which generates extra digital content?
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Hmmm… a variant timeline, but no variant covers?
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Since the logo is part of the lenticular effect, why not design “future” logos for each series?
truthfully i Can not wait, lots of sour grapes aleady and I am sure will be coming. These will sell like better then anything published during the same month
I think I like opera-singing Mera best.
@Torsten Adair: Agreed. There’s so much they could have done, and yet I have such low expectations for DC cover design at this point, I would’ve been happy if they’d just moved the #1 and price box over to the right side to balance against the DC logo.
I don’t personally think the covers are hideous, just supremely bland.
Sidenote: Fabok appears to be suggesting in his Batman cover that in the future that it will be just as common for men to get the butt-shot treatment (his cape even flows to the side in the first frame to give us a partial view before the full reveal).
I`m going to buy them all. I`m going to spend $52 BILLION on all of them ! Yea ! that will work. Or save $52 BILLION for I just saved them for free. After all does story really matter at this point ?
I read lips. Mera is singing “Don`t Cry For Me Argentina” !
does DC still use a “house style” like its the 50s?
because those covers all look like they could have been done by the same illustrator.
a boring one.
Has the talent pool run dry at DC? Seriously, I barely recognize about 10 of the artist/pencillers/inkers listed here. Is this to give the regular artist/pencillers/inkers time off for the summer?
It seems that people forget that nearly no artists does 12 issues a year anymore. Marvel has artist switch every arc.
Most of these artists have done work in the new52. Hampton, Sorrentino, Hardin, Rocha, Booth, Guinaldo, Saiz, Pansica and Luppachino are the regulars.
Morales, Cinar, Winslade, Nguyen, Alixe, Portela, Raney, ACO, Howard Porter, Kirkham, Calafiore, Kollins, and Neves all worked on ongoings.
Ah, the joys of Universe-wide spanning events….whether you want them or not!
Seems clear to me the reason for the “wasted space” is because the lenticular part will be limited to an area in the center of the cover, which probably helps with production time.
Wow. I don’t think I’m really buying any DC titles anymore, at least I really haven’t been. That list cements that notion. Vertigo books, yes, depending on the talent. Sometimes a Palmiotti/Gray book here and there–especially Hex. Sure, I’ll read Simone and Snyder and others if my public library continues to buy the trades, but I don’t dip into my wallet unless it’s Image or about 5 Marvel writers I always follow. Really heartbreaking how the New 52 alienated their fan base. I have no idea who the next generation of readers are for the publisher, but my 11 and 13 year old daughters absolutely detest the New 52 and the look of the iconic characters. As far as they’re concerned DC ruined Wonder Woman and Supergirl. (I like Azzarello’s WW, by the way.) I wouldn’t say my kids were fully supportive of DC before the new 52 as they prefer Archie and manga over superheroes, but DC isn’t winning the next generation of readers I helped bring into this world. When my children want toys of DC characters they never want new 52, just the blue, red, and gold WW.
That is not the Harley Quinn cover. It is the suicide squad cover.
did dc not learn the last time they did a cross over with the 3d cover thing. that not only did they have retailers screaming given how they even limited them but the rate dc keeps moving their time line pretty soon they will need to revisit the legendary crisis on infinite earths to sraighten things out again . though kind of like that phantom stranger cover for its making me think maybe the phantom ticked off some one powerful enough to strip him of his powers or a side effect of constitine having fates helmet
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