Futures End Solicitation covers are up

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Some lenticular covers for September's Futures End from DC

Now updated with text from the DC website, including the identity of one of the characters on the Batgirl cover.

Perhaps the most relevant to the readers of scans_daily; Batgirl... but perhaps not singular!

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Additional info from DC Comics webpage

It’s five years later, and Barbara Gordon has become Bête Noire – a.k.a. The Black Beast! Part Batman and part Bane, she leads a squad of female agents through the Gotham Underground!

Not sure about the Bane-like Batgirl in the background, but look at the three in front, now who could THEY all be?

Wonder Woman
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Well, she IS the Goddess of War I suppose...

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It’s five years later and Bruce Wayne is using dangerous science to help him continue his war on crime. What is it, and what forced Bruce to resort to such extremes?

I know it's not what I should be taking from the images, but I keep hearing Bruce's voice going "Time to use that move Dick taught me... Deploy BATASS! Hmmm... it never works as well for me as it does for him... I wonder why"



And here are some giffed covers


Batman takes his war on crime to the next level, but he needs the help of his greatest ally – The Riddler?!

I like to think Batman has just pushed Riddler off the roof for taking Robin's place.

Branded a traitor, Dick Grayson has become the most powerful hero in the newly resurgent and dominant Mother Russia – and now, he must battle the Beast from the East in one final struggle for supremacy!

Dick goes to Moscow, appears to be staying over at Starfire's place... but not Kori Starfire, Kovar Starfire

Lois Tornado does the "Sexy Robot" thing, for those who like such things...

Mera has claimed the throne of Atlantis for herself – and she’s sentenced her unfaithful husband, Aquaman, to death!

Mera and Arthur are NOT happy at having their special private-happy-alone-time disturbed.

I don't know that the future's like, but the Phantom Stranger's expressions are hilarious in any era

And Swamp Thing appears to have become the Tinned Vegetable Elemental.

Comments

[obsidianwolf]

Does Redstar even exist in the Nu52? I mean since Dick is wearing his outfit in the future he might have become the new Redstar. (they've already got him carrying a gun as a seductive super spy could meta human defector to Russia be that far behind.)

And thinking about Kori you don't suppose she's the really built Batgirl by some chance. I mean Bane-girl does look a bit orange to me.

Also it looks like Batman has had his back broken again.

[icon_uk]

I have no idea if Red Star exists in the New52, but the costumes are, I suspect, too similar for it to be a complete coincidence.

Kori would be an... unusual version of a Batgirl, who have always been non-superpowered, but who knows..

[obsidianwolf]

Welp that solicitation answers that guess of mine about Dick.

[chrisdv]

The Grayson cover has a serious "Rocky" vibe to it.

[shadowpsykie]

if he is shirtless and beating a lot of meat i don't have a problem with that comparissio....

what? why are you looking at me likethat?

[endis_ni]

Oh, I'm not looking, I'm cheering you on!

[shadowpsykie]

hmmm a blonde batgirl, a dark/short haired batgirl, a batgirl with undecernable hair color (and slightly darker complexion) and a redheaded BaneGirl..... that does leave SEVERAL possiblities.....

Banegirl DOES look kinda orange, and the "exposure" kinda makes me lean towards Starfire.... as does the long hair... but the color scheme could be EITHER redhead....

hehehehe Batass....

Oh my. Mera, Arthur, not in the thone room!

[icon_uk]

Nope, not Starfire, now updated with her identity.

[shadowpsykie]

huh.... i admit... i am intruiged....

[kurenai_tenka]

Pahahahaha, tragic.

[espanolbot]

I'd say that it's Babs, Cass, Nella and Steph... which would fit with Gail saying that she had been allowed to use a character she'd not been allowed to use for the past three years... but they're probably just unrelated characters who just fit the roles.

[crimsonmoonmist]

Mera and Arthur's "alone time" involves Artie in handcuffs?

[donnblake]

On his knees, no less.

[icon_uk]

That's why it's "special private-happy-alone-time"

[thatnickguy]

Anything to keep the marriage alive!

[pyynk]

Charles Soule recently did an interview on Word Balloon and mentioned machine elementals having an avatar. I'm going out on an especially sturdy limb and saying that's what the Swamp Thing cover is referencing.

[misanthr0pe]

The red, the green and the grey?

[aperturedreams]

The recent issue of Swamp Thing revealed that The Grey represents the world's fungi.

[jlbarnett]

You know that Future's End for Grayson is absolutely necessary. I mean how long has that book been stagnating with no new ideas

[obsidianwolf]

*cracks up laughing* Yes absolutely the Grayson title obviously needs a revamp immediately.

[kurenai_tenka]

Blah, as nice as it is to see Steph, Cass (?) and Nell (??), it's still only AU, and every gimmick DC puts out just drives me up the wall.

Still, the #1s imply that they're staying out of the main books right? So that's a positive turn. :)

[kurenai_tenka]

Also very serendipitous that the tab next to this one turned out to be this: http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2077

[jlbarnett]

Could also be Tamara Fox

[kurenai_tenka]

Could be! The timeline matches up better I suppose.

[espanolbot]

Well considering how a member of the Bat Family who hasn't been seen in ages will appear in an upcoming Batman Eternal issue (8 or 10) while Batman and Mr Unknown are visiting Hong Kong...

[kurenai_tenka]

Well I did figure that was the case, but I thought I'd add a safety question mark. ;)

[misanthr0pe]

So part highly trained part roid beast?

[big_daddy_d]

1. Dat Bat Ass! OR rather.. Bat Ass! Make that a thing!

2. Anyone else thinks Swamp Thing cybernetic form makes him look like Vilgax?

[zapbiffpow]

Oh, man, I wanna see that Grayson of Russia thing pay off.

Bruce: "So now, you're a national hero."

Dick: "Yes."

Bruce: "A national...hero. Of Russia."

[monkey12]

Batman: the bad ass with the Bat-Ass.

Although I really want to call it the Bat-Butt.

[jaybee3]

I'm pretty sure the Aquaman/Mera turnabout has been done a million times before. Does anyone at DC even remember the never-ending Obsidian Age saga which ended with Aquaman's water hand exile from Atlantis at the hands of Mera, Sub-Diego and then Artie Joe Aquman with Orin as a squid person. It wasn't THAT long ago, DC!

[timefire]

A part of me feels like they're ripping off the Flashpoint Paradox film. Which isn't that long ago, either.

[halloweenjack]

Hey, Dick, someone named James B. Barnes is on the line. I don't understand what he's saying--I'm pretty sure it's Russian--but he seems to be pissed off and laughing at the same time.

[timefire]

So are Mera and Aquaman, like, married now? *Married*-married?

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?