Weekly Comics Continue With Countdown

With the light at the end of the tunnel of 52 glowing brighter every week, fans everywhere are beginning to wonder what they'll do every Wednesday after the series ends. What, with the major delays rampant throughout the industry, what book can they count on to be there week in and week out? DC has the answer: Countdown.

Countdown will be a year-long weekly series beginning the week after issue 52 of 52 is released. But here's the cute part-- instead of issue #1, that issue will be #51! The following issue will be #50, and so on until #0, when I can only hope some giant spacecraft is launched.

At the New York Comic Con, some artwork was released that gives some insight into what may happen in Countdown. Slogans in the pictures included "Jimmy Olsen Must Die" and "The Seduction of the Innocent" (the latter accompanied by a picture of Mary Marvel and... someone else's arm). Check out the photos over at the Newsarama story. There are also a bunch of other fun announcements made at the DC panel.

-Elizabeth