DC's April Releases are "WTF Certified"

[CBR News]

A new logo for DC's upcoming April publishing initiative marks the issues of the New 52 officially "WTF Certified," with teased appearances by Booster Gold, the Creeper, the New Gods and more.


Full article here.

[adam.walters]

This is really going to be stuck on my cover of Batman?

[Mr. Holmes]

They're really having it say "WTF."

[TheNewDC]

Could be an April Fool's joke.

Otherwise, it looks like they are trying to copy the "Marvel Now" approach.

Maybe this is the start of a new tradition like launching an old series with a #1.

[neverender]

That's one way to ruin gatefold covers.

[CMBMOOL]

They're really having it say "WTF."

Seriously, the whole 52 is kind of WTF...

[bobbyraw]

Ok, I'm missing something. What does WTF stand for?


Please don't say "What the f$%K". That joke's to obvious to be funny.

Edit: Wait...reading the article again, is it actually supposed to mean "guaranteed to make you say "WTF""? That's just stupid.

[Mysterio4521]

Hahahahahahaha!

it looks like they are trying to copy the "Marvel Now" approach.

Nope, sorry. This is the type of lame only DC could pull off.

[Bad Wolf]

"WTF" is my reaction to this lame marketing move.

[Doctor Voodoo]

Legion of Superheroes will be trapped in a bottle.

Hype for the return of Booster Gold. (Threshold maybe?)

I think that Teen Titans will be changing colors.

The dying hero could be: Orion or Hawkman.

Pandora will likely fight The Spectre or Question to the death. Most like to take place in Phantom Stranger before Trinity War.

[Godlike13]

Please be it Nightwing changing his color back to blue.

[Outside_85]

I think we should just rename it from "What the f..." to "Why the f...do we keep reading this?" :)

To the points:
• Booster Gold reappears while an entire team disappears

I have a gnawing suspicion that it will be the JL team that vanishes, explaining the R. B. Silva leaked team sketch.

• One team is trapped in a bottle while another is changed completely

Guess we know where the vanished team went; Kandor.

• Some heroes change their colors and other change allegiances

One allegiance changer is bound to be in TT, since that's already been hinted in the solicitations.

• Pandora battles to the death

'With who' is the interesting part.

• A close encounter of The Dark Knight kind

Game of words I think, Demon Knights will run into the Black Knight.

• There's a new, old Creeper and some old New Gods.

Creeper; dont care.
New Gods...better not be written by Geoff Johns :(

• One hero quits, and another hero dies

What? Again?

[VicRedman]

WTF indeed. Color me unimpressed and slightly irritated. I'm not saying April won't bring some interesting developments, but I'm getting really tired of the constant marketing gimmicks. I wasn't a fan of "Zero Month", and I'm even less into this. First of all, none of these books are established enough for a curve ball to have much of an impact. Secondly, this smells of more editorial meddling, which has hurt the DCnU more than enough in my humble opinion.

Being a DC reader can be pretty frustrating these days. They should just hand a book over to an enthusiastic creative team and then leave them alone for a year or two. It seems to working for Marvel...

[capesNmasks]

Could be an April Fool's joke.

Otherwise, it looks like they are trying to copy the "Marvel Now" approach.

Maybe this is the start of a new tradition like launching an old series with a #1.

Well...other than switching creators, what Marvel did with "Marvel NOW" isn't anything new. They've done the same thing with "The Initiative", "Dark Reign", "The Heroic Age", etc.

[toddx77]

I am more interested in why DC is choosing April. I know it could be April fools but it seems unlikely. In April most of the books will be at issue 19, if you count issue 0, then issue 20 although I cannot think of any significance 19 or 20 has in relation to DC.