What are your overall thoughts about Future State?

[TheDragonKing]

What do you think about Future State and its contents? Do you like it? Or would you rather it not happen? And where do you think it will lead to afterwards? What are your opinions? I would like to know please.

[king81992]

I don't know how to feel.

[Dark Falz]

I honestly don't care. But to be totally transparent, I don't really read new DC Comics regularly anymore. If something sounds especially interesting to me, I might check it out to see what I think, but I'm not a regular consumer of the stuff by any means.

Future State does not look like anything I'm willing to check out, and there are some things about it I have a problem with at a very core level. I find I'm not all that interested in heroes passing down mantels, probably because I've seen it way too much in this genre and also the effects of it. I know Future State isn't a long term thing, but still...

Most heroes worth their salt to me own and originate their own identities and mythologies. I guess what I feel is especially troubling about this is that passing on mantels seems all that DC Comics can do when creating new characters and the company is resolved in that thinking, and it's just old hat to me at this point. Of course, people will say that the fans aren't interested in anything new, and there is truth to that, but I also think that fans aren't interested in anything bad, and from what I've seen from these comics publishers is that for every 1 good idea they have, there are about 150 or more that are either bad or are of little note. But whatever the case, whether it's an unreasonable fanbase or whatever, that's DC's problem to sort out, and for me, personally, until they do, I don't have much interest in the way they generally do things with adding legacies ad nauseum.

Furthermore, I just don't care about a What If future and I also don't like events that overtake near the whole publishing line. Again, it has to do with the oversaturation of that sort of thing. If it wasn't going on all the time, I don't think I would come out and say I "dislike" that sort of thing in principle.

[married guy]

My thoughts are: "Two months where I buy NO DC books".
I have zero interest in anything I've seen, ESPECIALLY the Flash with Wally again being the villain of the piece.

[Riv86672]

My thoughts are: "Two months where I buy NO DC books".
I have zero interest in anything I've seen, ESPECIALLY the Flash with Wally again being the villain of the piece.

This is basically how I feel about it.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

I'm taking a wait and see approach to this. After all the dust settles, I'll see which ones people thought were worthwhile and check them out, same as I did with Before Watchmen (which saved me a lot of money)

[Jon Clark]

It sounds pretty contrived to me. I'd rather they just went with the obvious and put people like Damian or the current Kid Flash in the roles rather than trying to create new legacies.

The descriptions make me wonder if this is just a one-off like Convergence that doesn't really have any impact on the on-goings.

Personally, I'm still deciding if I'll just take a break from DC while this is happening as nothing really sounds that compelling to me. It's another Elseworlds like Future's End, Convergence, or the never ending Metal that will ultimately be ignored by the next creative gods DC brings in to write the regular books.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

I'm curious about the "replacements" and the DCEU in the 2030s.

[cranger]

I loved Flashpoint, Convergence, Futures End, Worlds End, and how the New 52 tried to broaden the DC canvas to I am hyped for this.