While DC will return to a pretty standard publishing schedule in June 2020, two projects that aren’t in their revised release schedule for that month is Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok’s Batman: Three Jokers and the first issue of the publisher’s Generation event, subtitled Age of Mysteries.
The Three Jokers launch was originally solicited for June 17, and with DC catching up and now launching Dark Knights: Death Metal in June, its absence is not that unexpected and a return later this summer is likely.
Generation is a slightly different animal.
Billed as ‘The Charge Toward DC’s Future,’ Generation One was originally solicited (without cover art) along Death Metal #1 for May, and despite being officially announced just prior as a five-part “monthly” event, Generations Two (subtitled Age of the Metahuman) was not originally solicited for June, with DC declining to comment on its absence at the time.
Its release may be complicated by the fact the event launch was supposed to be preceded by a May 2-Free Comic Book Day special Generation Zero: Gods Among Us, but FCBD (as it’s widely known) was of course cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis and Diamond and participating publishers have not announced plans to distribute the titles created for the event.
The status of the full Generation event, that was conceived by a braintrust of writers (Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Jurgens, Andy Schmidt, Robert Venditti, Joshua Williamson) and artists (Doug Mahnke, Bryan Hitch, Mikel Janín, Ivan Reis, David Marquez, and more), might be even more complicated than that, however.
DC’s highest-profile spokesperson for the event was ex-co-publisher Dan DiDio, who exited DC unexpectedly in late February, just a little more than a week after Generation was officially announced.
Newsarama has requested updates on Three Jokers and Generation from DC. We’ll update this story if they comment.