DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio recently revealed one of the 3D motion covers that will be available on comics in the September Futures End event. While last year’s Villains Month event incorporated variant 3D covers that DiDio said sold “extraordinarily well,” he said the 2014 covers are more complex because the characters will be changing.
“All the lenticular covers — all the Futures End stories that will be told in September — will be in the titles of the ongoing series,” DiDio said. “The covers now will also have the ability to have a ‘flicker’ effect. That means that the images change and show the transformation going on. … There is a level of change that is taking place with our characters during the course of this story.”
All covers — both the 3D and 2D covers (standard) — for the September Futures End tie-ins will have order dates at the same time on May 29th. There will be no “final order cut-off” date for the titles.
“We had a chance to work with a number of retailers,” DiDio said. “We heard what their concerns were. And we figure we came out with a structure and plan right now that I think allows everybody to feel confident in how to order these things, to make sure that the right amount of books are on the shelf.”
