THE ROAD TO 5G
Posted: 010520

At the New York Comic Con the DC Universe Timeline was shown to fans. The timeline lays out the full history of the DCU in a series of generations. Generation 1 covers the first twenty-five years; Generation 2 covers the next fifteen years; Generation 3 follows the fifteen years after that which leads us to the current Generation 4. What follows is what Bleeding Cool has labeled 5G. The map showed that that Booster Gold knows what’s going on with the new timeline and that Jonathan Kent aged when he went to the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes instead of what was told in the arc that covered the aging. 5G would relaunch a number of major DC Comics titles and place a new character in the lead role. A number of creators would leave their current titles and have Jonathan Kent take over as Superman, Luke Fox take over as Batman (we would be told that Bruce was dead but instead would mentor Luke); we would get a new Wonder Woman in January 2021 and so on. The transitions would be smooth at times and rough in others. With the second Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp Green Lantern limited series coming in February 2020 there are rumors that Young Justice’s Teen Lantern would take over for Hal Jordan. The reason for the original heroes being replaced hasn’t been even been hinted at but Scott Snyder hasn’t been shy about something big coming.

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