DC’s line-wide event this September will take its storylines five years into the future, and like last year, the entire line will sport 3-D Motion lenticular covers.  The stories will spin out of the events of the weekly The New 52: Futures End (see "DC Plans 'New 52' Weekly"), and occur in DC’s regular ongoing titles.

Retailers will have until May 29th to order the special cover versions of the September books, with no FOC date, DC told Newsarama.  Last year, DC received more orders on its Villains Month issues than it could fulfil, and had to allocate them (see "DC Says 3-D Motion Covers Will Be Allocated"), an unpopular decision.  By cutting off orders before the special covers are printed, DC should be able to ensure that all the advance orders can be filled.

Then coming out of the Futures End event in September, DC will launch a new weekly title in October, its third weekly of 2014.  The first, Batman Eternal, will launch in April (see "Stephanie Brown Returns in 'Batman: Eternal'"); Futures End launches out of Free Comic Book Day in May; and now this new title will flow out of Futures End. 

DC will have 12 (or more) weekly issues in October, which will count against the 52-title benchmark that DC established with the "New 52;" if there are twelve weekly issues, there would only be 40 monthly issues, according to the plan as described by DC Co-Publisher Dan Didio to Newsarama.  This could help raise the line average, as DC has had a hard time getting titles in the bottom rungs of the "New 52" to sell enough copies to stick around; the weeklies, anchored by strong characters, may be able to replace those poorer sellers with better selling issues.