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Dark Nights: Death Metal Lands New Launch Date
via Newsarama

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Dark Nights: Metal sequel Death Metal has returned to DC's schedule.

Originally solicited for a May 13 release, the debut of the six-issue limited series is now June 16 as part of DC's post-Diamond shutdown revised schedule. The Tuesday date represents the day-and-date digital debut along with comic shops served by distributors Lunar and UCS. Wednesday, June 17 will be the official debut date for stores serviced by Diamond.

"This is a story we've been building for three years - we pitched it when we pitched Dark Nights: Metal," Snyder tells Newsarama. "It brings a lot of threads together to give what we hope will be the epic ending of one era of DC comics and the equally epic start to a new one..."

Since the COVID-19 pandemic put the entire comic industry on hiatus, DC's (and Snyder's) plans for Death Metal have expanded to include more tie-ins, specials, and anthology issues.

"So, for example, there’s an anthology issue coming that’s one of my favorite things that we’ve ever done that is a Death Metal guide to the Dark Knights. And it’s all the evil Batmen," Snyder told Newsarama in April.

"And then we have a Metal guidebook that takes you all around the world of Metal and what happens to the DCU and the current state of things," the writer added.

And while DC's other summer event Generation is M.I.A. in DC's revised May and June schedule, Snyder has said that Death Metal will "sort out" DC continuity.

Jonah Hex Joins DC's Dark Nights: Death Metal Cast
via CBR

Greg Capullo is hard at work on Dark Nights: Death Metal, and he's posted penciled art of Jonah Hex’s unforgettable disfigured face to announce his inclusion.

"Death Metal #3 is underway!" Capullo tweeted, along with a close crop of Hex's face.

Jonah Hex is a scarred bounty hunter from the 19th-century American western frontier who lives by his own code, walking the thin line between hero and vigilante depending on the situation and his disposition. While he hasn't been used much lately, but this could lead to the resurgence of Hex in the DC Universe.

Hex’s role in this limited series isn’t clear yet, but it’s possible this could be a version of the character from the Dark Multiverse.

Writer Scott Snyder recently said, because of the extra time that the coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdown has provided, the story is going to get bigger and better. It’s quite the feat for a series that already has a chainsaw-wielding Wonder Woman and a Dark Multiverse Batman dinosaur called "Bat-Rex."

Dark Nights: Death Metal #1, by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion and FCO Plascencia, was originally scheduled to go on sale May 13. However, it has since been delayed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

DC GENERATION Event, THREE JOKERS Not On DC’s June Release Schedule
via Newsarama

While DC will return to a pretty standard publishing schedule in June 2020, two projects that aren't in their revised release schedule for that month is Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok's Batman: Three Jokers and the first issue of the publisher's Generation event, subtitled Age of Mysteries.

Billed as 'The Charge Toward DC's Future,' Generation One was originally solicited (without cover art) along Death Metal #1 for May, and despite being officially announced just prior as a five-part "monthly" event, Generations Two (subtitled Age of the Metahuman) was not originally solicited for June, with DC declining to comment on its absence at the time.

Its release may be complicated by the fact the event launch was supposed to be preceded by a May 2-Free Comic Book Day special Generation Zero: Gods Among Us, but FCBD (as it's widely known) was of course cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis and Diamond and participating publishers have not announced plans to distribute the titles created for the event.

The status of the full Generation event, that was conceived by a braintrust of writers (Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Jurgens, Andy Schmidt, Robert Venditti, Joshua Williamson) and artists (Doug Mahnke, Bryan Hitch, Mikel Janín, Ivan Reis, David Marquez, and more), might be even more complicated than that, however.

DC's highest-profile spokesperson for the event was ex-co-publisher Dan DiDio, who exited DC unexpectedly in late February, just a little more than a week after Generation was officially announced.

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