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Also, just to let you know, these aren’t weeklies added onto 52 titles. They are part of the 52 number of books that we create on a monthly basis.

So it’s not that we’re adding more product in. It’s just as the weaker books go away, we’re adding weeklies, which we think have big stories that lead to more and exciting events as they start to unfold over the next year.

From the Dan DiDio interview here.

If I’m understanding the above correctly, this means that DC is essentially going from 52 separate series a month to 40 or so, because they’re focusing on “52 issues a month” and three weeklies = 12 issues each month (Well, ish).

That’s an interesting shift in DC’s publishing philosophy, and one that could be worth watching in the months to come. What if they decide that Superman should ship twice a month? Does that mean another lower-selling book gets cancelled?

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Following the overwhelming success of 2013’s “Villains Month” 3-D motion covers, DC Comics is bringing the technology back this September! Spinning out of the events of the new weekly series THE NEW 52: FUTURES END, comic books will leap 5 years into the future! This fall expect the books to have even more depth and motion than before!

DC announces its September event for the year.

In all honesty, if this isn’t accompanied with a “Hey, we seriously fucked this up last year and we’ve learned from our lesson and here’s proof – for one thing, we’re going to overprint the whole thing so that retailers aren’t screwed again” type mea culpa from DC, they’re doing it wrong.

Related: As much as I like the idea of Futures End in concept (I suspect the execution will be too dystopian for my liking, but we’ll see), and as much as I like the idea of jumping all of the regular comics forward for a month to give glimpses of what’s going to come even though it probably won’t – hey, I bought all of the Armageddon 2001 annuals way back when, and it’s exactly the same gimmick – and as much as I like the idea of weekly comics in general… Adding all of these together sounds like a Countdown to Final Crisis-esque disaster waiting to happen to me.

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Thinking about things like Adventure Time, Jeffrey Brown’s Star Wars books and the career of James Kochalka, I wonder whether or not the mainstream success of “alternative” cartoonists says more about the weirding of the mainstream over the last decade or so, or the conservative nature of comic culture.

Or both, of course.