Major DC Comics news today:
https://www.gamesradar.com/what-is-dc-future-state/
DC is NOT rebooting again...but they are doing a line-wide RELAUNCH of some sort.
DC has announced January-February will see NO regular issues released of any series. Instead January and February will see the release of Generations: Shattered, FUTURE STATE and Generations: Forged.
DEATH METAL concludes the first week of January and the conclusion immediately launches into Dan Jurgen's book, Generations: Shattered which will see the original 1939 Batman team up with Sinestro, Kamandi, Starfire, Booster Gold, Steel and Dr Light to battle a threat to all of DC's history and multiverses. Generations: Shattered will be released the same day as DEATH METAL #7 and is intended to be read immediately afterwards.
Whatever happens there ties into FUTURE STATE, which will be a two month event replacing all other titles, and will then conclude with Generations: Forged at the end of February.
As noted in this thread before, originally DC was going to do 5G (Fifth Generation) and age out Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Supes, etc and replace them with new versions. Then Dan Didio got fired. Then Covid-19 happened. Then WB replaced a lot of DC's staff and leadership.
As also noted in this thread before, all the current DC Titles are either:
A) Ending in December
B) Current Creative teams are ending in December on major books (Bendis on Supes being the biggest example)
C) All current comic solicitations for December are either finales of current arcs or one-shot issues.
D) ENDLESS WINTER is taking place in multiple books, in December ONLY, in place of new stories starting in those comics instead.
What does it all mean - we don't know yet. But it would seem like DC is gearing up March to be a major jumping on point, a big refresh, new books, new creative teams for many major titles, a company RELAUNCH rather than REBOOT.
Some speculation is that DC will do a time-jump of sorts, not unlike the original 5G plans, but with some twist involved so it won't be so extreme of a change.
