DC's daily 'Digital First' program has recently added stories tha🦩t are 🍃actually being published first digitally, although DC readers and retailers might not have noticed.
No, we're not talking about Harleꦫy Quinn: Black + White + Red announced a couple of wꦇeeks back, or DCeased: Hop⛎e at World's End announced a few weeks before that.
New to the publisher's daily program in the last few weeks are stories that did not originally appear in their DC Giant print titles and that are being digitally published for♋ the first time anywhere.
However, in recent weeks, oriꦗginal, brand new stories that have never been published anywhere have begun to appear under the same banners, although DC has not announced this specifically to readers or highlighted the change in their weekly email to the press about the digital schedule.
Monday's Superman: The Man of Tomꩵorrow #11 story 'Fight of a Lifetime' by Robert Venditti, Gleb Melkinov, Jordie Bellaire, and Clayton Cowles appears to be original; as did last week's Batman: Gotham Nights #12 story 'Five Little R💟obins' by Tim Seeley, V. Ken Marion, Sandu FLorea, Andrew Dalhouse, and Troy Peteri.
And there appears to have been other original stories als𓃲o released in the previous few weeks.
The DC Giants program was finite so the publisher was inevitably going to run out of stories that first 🐻appeared in their pages. The new stories seem to suggest DC is prepared to continue the daily digital program uninterrupted with wholly new material that is not already and will not be made availaꦏble in print, at least for the immediate future.
Newsarama anticipated that DC's original Digital First expansion plans foreshadowed bi🌊gger changes to their publishing strategy down the road.
DC has not r🅷esponded to Newsarama's inquiries about the new stories and the program.
