DC Comics’s WTF Certified Covers: Spoilers, Predictions, Guesses

Fans who got a look at the new Previews out yesterday would have noticed that DC Comics’s New 52 covers were all stamped with a “WTF certified” logo. What’s that all about?That’s the question that Buzzfeed is asking, and they’ve got a few kinda-sorta answers from DC.What does it mean, they ask? Well, of course anyone who’s been paying attention knows what it means–each of the issues has a surprising plot twist inside, and it’s reflected on a gatefold cover, only one half of which appears in the solicitation for the issue.What clues did DC share with Buzzfeed, though, and what might they mean?

• Yeah, well, that’s pretty much all over the place, isn’t it? You’ve got betrayals and traitors and teammates carrying each other off to Arkham and all sorts of things in these covers:
• It looks pretty clear that Catwoman will not be long for the Justice League of America, with a whip around Green Arrow’s neck on the JL of A cover and then Arrow and J’Onn carrying her off by force to what looks to be Arkham Asylum on the front of her own book.
• Birds of Prey have a traitor solicited
• “change their colors” probably refers to a couple of characters going bad or good or what have you–but is there a possibility of Guy Gardner returning to the Red Lantern Corps or something? Certainly they’re playing with the White Lantern idea over in the New Guardians book.
• Wonder Woman is turned against Superman in his own book, while in Justice League someone (looks like Batman) is going at him with Kryptonite.
• “What horrors lie beneath the mask of the Red Hood, with a confused/scared looking Starfire, seems ominous
• As does “Which one hero has the power to bring down all the Lantern Corps?”
• Justice League Dark battles an “unexpected threat,” in a book full of characters who are morally grey and whose leader has been spying on them.
• Team 7 welcomes a new member into the New 52 who might tear the team apart.
• Which new member of the Teen Titans reveals his true colors?

Geez, apparently April is just “treason month” at DC Comics.Pandora battles to the deathThat’s gotta be Phantom Stranger, right? Unless she’s the ghostly apparition haunting Constantine, which might also make sense given the fact that DC changed the writer of that newborn series to be one of their most trusted and best-selling guys.A close encounter of The Dark Knight kindWell, Batman is missing in action as Gotham crumbles in the actual Batman: The Dark Knight title. Is he off-planet on Justice League business? It could also have to do with the 900, or with the two mysterious people he encounters in Batman and Robin or Batman.This one’s tough to get a grip on because the comics aren’t the movies–Batman is doing “alien” stuff all the time.