DC Announces Geoff Johns, 'Doomsday Clock' Events For New York Comic Con

DC this morning announced a number of events coming up during next month's New York Comic Con which will bring chief creative officer Geoff Johns front and center in anticipation of his upcoming event miniseries, Doomsday Clock.

According to a press release, which came complete with a previously unreleased piece of Doomsday Clock promotional artwork, the panel for the series will take place on the New York Comic Con main stage Friday, October 6th, at 6:00 pm ET.

You can see the promo art, which depicts Batman reading Rorschach's journal, below.

During the panel, DC says that Johns will reveal the first pages of issue #1 -- he already revealed the first panel during the series' Comic Con panel in San Diego -- and lead an in-depth discussion on how it all began, starting with his acclaimed DC Universe: Rebirth one-shot and leading to Doomsday Clock, which launches on November 22nd.

Audience members who attended Johns's Comic Con Spotlight panel were given Doomsday Clock buttons featuring the series' logo, a yellow Doomsday Clock with the Superman logo placed at midnight. Members of the New York Comic Con audience will receive a limited-edition Doomsday Clock item available only at the panel.

Doomsday Clock is 12 issues long,"and it takes place a year in the future of the DC Universe, so that when the last issue comes out, the DC Universe will catch up," Johns said during his Comic-Con spotlight panel. "Everything from Rebirth and Metal and everything else, this will take place after all of that, and by the time issue #12 comes out, the rest of the DC Universe will catch up and be affected. You'll see some changes to characters in this that you'll see unfold and you'll see events happen in the DC line that will then catch up to what we're doing."

"There's so much great thematic and important stuff about what the DC Universe is, what these heroes mean to us, what the world faces on a daily basis, and what these heroes — DC's in specific — speak to me and hopefully why they speak to you," added Johns. "That's what the book is about. The book is a celebration of all of it; it's a comic book that encompasses everything from Action Comics #1 in 1938 all the way till today, and it leads the DC Universe into tomorrow with issue # 12 — like, literally tomorrow. There's a lot of things that I'm excited for you guys to see, but one scene in particular that I love: I love seeing the smartest man from one world talking to the smartest man from another — and the smartest man from DC is Lex Luthor — and that's all I'll say."