Sounds great, but batman Beyond in 5 years is a bit soon...

Call me a pessimist, but I can't help but think both of these announced weekly series are going to be overhyped and ultimately mediocre at best.

If DC is trying to be like marvel, then I'm out....

What the f*ck is this?

So 5 years in the future everyone will be a robot, but Batman. OK then. Looks interesting. I have a feeling Adam Strange might be present when all this happens.

Yeah I don't mind them messing with Terry as long as they keep his book out of whatever crap they pull. Maybe it will be great, but I have very little faith in New 52 events.

I would love for this to be a success. Lemire, Azzarello (which spell check is telling me should be spelled Mozzarella), Frankenstein, and Terry. That all sounds great. And then there is Firestorm, haven't read anything of him since Brightest Day. He is only noteworthy during events, huh? Which half are they killing this time?

Great cover. It looks interesting.

Brother eye, and Terry brought into the new 52?...No thanks

Just please don't make it like forever evil,. where everyone is dead ( or who knows what ) except for freaking batman the lone survivor.

Didn't Bruce wear the Batman Beyond suit for a few years before Terry wore it? I don't see why Bruce can't be the one in the suit.

This could work.

That would be awesome!!

finally! DC has been trying hard to get beyond into the continuity.

One where damian was Terry's mentor.... :P

But 5 Years? O.o What up with that

Maybe thats not terry in the suit.

OH WAIT!
Is terry gonna be like man out of time like O'hara???

reminds me of final crisis a when people were transformed into warriors for darkseid. so brother eye takes over ala the matrix? oh batman. and of course since its a dc event the future batman is the lead lol but im interested to know who else will be in the tale other than terry

So the 5 years later rumour was true. I have to admit an uneasiness over this news. Not only is the possibility of a technological domination and drastic shift in technology difficult to see even by comic book standards, the cover seems to represent a lot of things that are drawbacks of the New 52. Being dark and edgy and supposedly earth changing for the sake of change. Organic development is always superior to hastily conceived weekly series. Even with the strong lineup of writers for this series, the concept is already a difficult one to execute. Plus Batman Beyond seems like pure shoehorning for fan service.

i like terry but if this gives an excuse to get Damian or Tim their own book i am game. I like both so much more than dick, and i have batman beyond 2.0 to give me whatever terry i need.

Also we have seen in i think batwing that bruce had a prototype suit that looked very similar to batman beyond, maybe this will be bruce in the prototype!

@redqueen: they look more like robots with fake skin blown off

I think those of you who are worried that Batman Beyond will happen only five years in the future are getting anxious over nothing. While there is talk about 'five years in the future' this is probably the new present, sorta like OYL after Infinite Crisis or how the bulk of the New 52 Universe took place five years after the first Justice League arc. They say that they are exploring the past, present, and future. So the very inclusion of the word "past" means that this is not taking place all at one time. What this really reminds me of is in Crisis on Infinite Earths, when not only the different universes, but also different time periods, were merging. Dawnstar from the Legion of Superheroes, and Anthro, or whatever that caveman's name was, and characters from throughout the timestream found themselves in the DCU circa 1985. The fact that they say Frankenstein is going to be the main character in the past makes me believe that the past they speak of will be close to his creation, in whatever century that was, before most modern technology anyway. The Beyond era will probably be the future era they focus on.

This is not the first time they've tried to merge the Beyond era stories with the mainstream DCU. They were doing pretty well with that just before the New 52 reboot. Then the recent digital first series clearly cemented those characters in a universe more akin to the DCAU. I'm thinking this Future's End series will run and when it concludes, they will conclude the current Batman Beyond series, but only after at least as long a run as the previous one had, then they will relaunch a new Batman Beyond series as part of the New 52.

The name Future's End has me somewhat hopeful that this bring about the return of the pre-Flashpoint DCU, but I'm not gonna go anywhere near believing that because if I did, I'd probably get my hopes up.

Anyway, if I remember correctly, when they announced Batman: Eternal, they said that series would be one year long. But I don't see any mention of how long this series will be around. Does anyone have that information.

Wow the technology changed big time for only 5 years

Finally Brother Eye returns with a vengeance!

I've been waiting for its return since the end of Justice League International. Hmm, why do I get the feeling that the Rise of Brother Eye will be a fallout of Forever Evil?

Weeklies just don't work. Also...Batman Beyond five years into the future? No thank you.

stooge

what does that mean?

figure it out

"Cough" Freaking 52, Beyond Series (2.0 Included), Injustice, Smallville Season 11, Adventures of Superman, Legends of The Dark Knight "Cough"

Come again?

you cant tell me what to do! you're not my real dad!

While I do love that Batman Beyond is going to be official continuity, I doubt I'll check this out.

@slade_wilson: here's a pitch that could work in the future terry as batman lives in a world controlled by brother eye he works with firestorm in dc present time to stop brother eye it turns out though that there is either a hidden bad guy like vandle savage who is controlling him they need Frankenstein's help to find savage because they've meet each other and Frankenstein might be able to locate him or Frankenstein being an immortal may be able to locate something that he has encountered in the past could help.

there it took me 5 minutes to come up with a working plot for the series im sure the writers can do better