More on this newsDC Entertainment will launch a new, unnamed weekly series in October 2014, DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio revealed to Newsarama. The weekly series will be the third weekly from the publisher this year, following April's launch of Batman Eternal and May's The New 52: Futures End .
Although DC would not confirm how long the new October weekly is planned to continue, all three of the company's 2014 weekly series will be running concurrently after October's launch of the new comic.
To me that reads that if you're getting say Eternal, after the October event you'll need to pick up all 3 of the weekly books.
Thing is I like the idea of Future's End and the creative team attached, it's just that if I'm not picking up any other DC books like Justice League it feels a bit pointless. Because all the main story stuff with lead into Justice League or the new Lemire JL title.
In the interview, DiDio implied that the 12 (or more) weekly issues that would ship every month after October would, in theory, replace what would normally be 12 monthly titles. He said the three weekly series would not be added to the approximately 52 titles that DC publishes every month, but would be counted as part of their normal monthly line.
That's actually pretty sensible of DC. The New 52 has had some utter shite that barely last 10 issues, and every "wave" has been full of cancellations. Trim the gooseberry fool, fill it with weeklies, profit?
No way am I picking up 3 weeklies though. I just hope it doesn't affect Eternal too much and I can just read that and Batman.