About a week ago, DC Comics announced that it was cancelling six titles from its New 52 line of superhero comics, and has not, as yet, announced what they might be replaced with.Replaced, you see, because DC has kept “The New 52” at fifty-two titles since the post-Flashpoint relaunch of their universe, giving fans a predictable 13 issues or so per week to sink their hooks into. The fact that six books are going away in May means that June should, barring a major shift in the company’s publishing plan, see the launch of six new #1 issues.While one of those issues is going to be Man of Steel #1 from Batman writer Scott Snyder and former Justice League penciller Jim Lee, that still leaves a number of titles unaccounted for. So what might fans expect to see in their June solicitations? We’ve got some ideas.Gen 13The final issue of The Ravagers hinted that there would be an important revelation made regarding Caitlin Fairchild’s powers–something that DC brass have reiterated in interviews. What does that mean? Well, to longtime WildStorm fans it means that there’s a good chance we’ll see the end of The Ravagers and the end of Team 7 come together to build toward the beginning of Gen 13.A team made up of teen metahumans who were essentially kidnapped by a shadowy, governmental organization and forced to “activate” their powers, it later turned out that Gen 13 had ties to the mysterious Team 7 – a book that came later in WildStorm but which has been published for some time now as a flashback title in the New 52. With that book being cancelled at the same time we’re getting “revelations” about Caitlin–who was the POV character for the first Gen 13 miniseries–it seems only logical that the two wouldn’t be happening by accident.Also, short of Teen Titans, Gen 13 is probably the most recognizable brand of “teen” superteam that DC owns. The fact that it hasn’t been used yet is frankly a bit shocking.
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