Raises it's head once more...
DC are launching a weekly 5 years later comic, a link to which can be found here
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/11...s-later-the-weekly-comic-from-dc-comics/ Every title jumps 5 years ahead for a month and returns back to the present day. But a Weekly 5 years later book will remain. I note Giffen's involvement.
Both the GiffenBaum 5 year gap and the Adult Legion stories were pretty contentious.
Not least of the reasons for that was that any future plots would be rail-roaded towards predefined outcomes. Not that things worked out that way, quite, but that was back when minds weren't changed every 5 minutes on entire events.
This does seem like one desperate teaser to keep reading the books. But it falls flat if the events shown 5 years later aren't worth reading the books for to get to that point.
"Oh look my favourite character is now a druggie/dead/appalling 5 years later. Will I bother reading? No."
Additionally, if DC are treating it as anything other than a possible future, every creative team is now fenced in. I'm reminded of George Perez's Superman run as an example of how well DC plan and communicate.
I do think that branching out into a weekly comic is a good idea, if the price point is decent. I can only hope it's a bit more successful than Action Comics Weekly. That anthology tried to capture something for most readers, but had too many weak links to succeed. I did like the Secret Six though.
While the links I've read to this suggest that DC's previous 1 year later was a "critical success2 written by a "crack" team, I racall it as a utter waste of time, written by numbers by a team who must have mentally moved on to their next projects. So, again it can only be hoped that this is a little better.
I'm not a huge fan of those final page upcoming teasers in comics, although I can see why they'd want them to keep some of the drifting readers. I'd rather not have the spoilers.
What if it were the Legion? How would seeing another adult Legion story or a peek into the 5YG feel?