DC Comics has launched the 52thecomic.com Website in support of the weekly comic book series, 52, which debuts in stores tomorrow.  Weekly comics have been tried before (unsuccessfully), but DC's 52 is different, it's basically a 52-issue mini-series that plays out in 'real time' with each issue covering the events during one week in the DC Universe in the most tumultuous year in its history in a manner analogous to the much more compressed narrative of Fox's TV series 24.

Throughout the year as the 52 comic book series chronicles the fate of a world without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, 52thecomic.com will function as an Internet newsmagazine granting readers access to the headlines and stories of The Daily Planet including sports and weather information.  In addition to this straight narrative function, the Website will also provide visitors with a 'meta' service by providing interviews with the writers of the 52 comic, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid as well as behind-the-scenes storyboards by 52 breakdown artist Keith Giffen.