As expected, major changes are afoot…
DC’s solicitations were released Friday and, as you might expect, a lot of changes are afoot — including the cancellation of several series.
Whether these were planned before this week’s news of major layoffs at the publisher or not, here’s a list of titles that will end come November: Hawkman, Suicide Squad, Teen Titans, Young Justice and John Constantine: Hellblazer were all marked FINAL ISSUE.
Here are the salient solicitations, in alphabetical order:
HAWKMAN #29
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art by FERNANDO PASARIN
Cover by MIKEL JANÍN
ON SALE 11/10/20
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
FINAL ISSUE
He’s lived and died and lived again. But now, with just one life left to live and the reincarnation cycle at its end, will Hawkman sacrifice everything to protect the woman he loves from the cursed blade of Hath-Set? Learn the fate of Hawkman and Hawkwoman in a tale that will take you to the edge of time and space!
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JOHN CONSTANTINE: HELLBLAZER #12
Written by SIMON SPURRIER
Art by AARON CAMPBELL
Cover by JOHN PAUL LEON
ON SALE 11/24/20
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC
DC BLACK LABEL | AGES 17+
FINAL ISSUE
John Constantine faces his final reckoning with the older version of himself who’s been seeding magical chaos all around England, while the lives of all his friends hang in the balance…and that is not a good situation for John Constantine’s friends. Can the evil in John’s heart ever be contained? Or will it reach out and destroy the one life he would give anything not to corrupt?
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SUICIDE SQUAD #11
Written by TOM TAYLOR
Art and cover by BRUNO REDONDO
ON SALE 11/24/20
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
FINAL ISSUE
The explosive final issue is here! Task Force X has been through hell and back. Now they’re the last thing standing between a human bomb and an island full of innocents. Which means that even if they win the day, there’s nowhere to run when the Justice League arrives to clean house!
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TEEN TITANS #47
Written by ROBBIE THOMPSON
Art by JAVIER FERNANDEZ
Cover by BERNARD CHANG
ON SALE 11/17/20
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
FINAL ISSUE
Robin betrayed them. Superboy abandoned them. Now the only Teen Titans left are Crush, Kid Flash, Red Arrow, and Roundhouse. As the teen heroes wrap up what may be their final mission, they’re going to get some unexpected encouragement from a group that knows a little about how hard it is to be heroes. Special guest stars the original Titans prove there may still be some good this team can do in the future.
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YOUNG JUSTICE #20
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS and DAVID F. WALKER
Art by SCOTT GODLEWSKI
Cover by JOHN TIMMS
Card stock variant cover by DERRICK CHEW
ON SALE 11/3/20
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
CARD STOCK VARIANT COVER $4.99
FINAL ISSUE
For the first time in months, the entire Young Justice team comes together to face a threat bigger than anything they’ve faced before. Just as the team has come to grips with their fractured legacy, someone from Young Justice’s past has come back to murder them! Guest-starring the Wonder Twins, Dial H for Hero, and Naomi—plus some other Wonder Comics surprises too hot to mention here! Don’t miss this final issue from the Eisner Award-nominated co-writers of Naomi!
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A few thoughts:
— Despite rumors to the contrary, Aquaman is not being cancelled with Issue #65.
— In a purely bizarre coincidence, the Teen Titans announcement comes 40 years to the day after The New Teen Titans #1 debuted. On a brighter note, we’ve been celebrating TEEN TITANS WEEK and you can click here to check it out. With Young Justice also off the table, I’m curious as to what’s next for DC’s younger heroes.
— Hawkman is and shall always be a cult-favorite character. But he has a truly devoted fanbase and I’m saddened by this move. Robert Venditti wrote some of the best Hawkman stories ever and did the impossible — made sense of Carter Hall’s convoluted history. His run will go down among the greatest.
— I’m not 100 percent sure that Constantine wasn’t planned as a 12-issue series but I don’t believe it was. (Titles like Dan DiDio’s Metal Men and Warren Ellis’ The Batman’s Grave, which also end in November, were planned as limited series.)
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MORE
— Major Layoffs at DC COMICS. Click here.
— FILMATION AQUAMAN Swims Away From the DC UNIVERSE App. Click here.
August 14, 2020
DC’s definitely changing their game this year.
August 14, 2020
Assuming these cuts are all made based on low sales, it’s dismaying that so many of these have corresponding mass media TV, movie, or animated series that you would think would bolster their sales. Teen Titans, Young Justice, Suicide Squad, Constantine… only Hawkman doesn’t have a counterpart on TV or the big screen. Marvel has the same type of inability to capitalize on what would SEEM to be free widespread marketing.
Of course in almost all of these cases, the comic bears NO resemblance to the live-action/animated versions.
August 14, 2020
END THE VARIANTS –$$$$$$ GRAB!!
will DC Finish off the story lines or just kill the books!
August 14, 2020
It’s sad that especially on Dan’s Teen Titan’s Week to get this news. So many of these worthy heroes deserve to go on, but alas, it’s not always meant to be. I can only find comfort in the knowledge that with comics books, science fiction and the supernatural genres, all things can be resurrected.
August 15, 2020
It really comes down to being entertained for the dollars. At $4 and $5 an issue, those titles weren’t holding my interest. Conversely, I just picked up the Firepower trade for $10, and was entertained. Made me want to pick up the first 2 issues.
August 15, 2020
Where the Teen Titans is concerned, they’re in the same space where the original X-men movies were.
Anyone seeing the TV show who then decides to pick up the book doesn’t see one character they know from the series!
Marketing & cross departmental planning fail 101!!