Cody White
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Whether its Batman’s final showdown with The Joker, Wonder Woman taking on new adventures, or the Man of Steel taking facing threats from Metropolis and across the cosmos, DC is the place to be for the best storytellers lending their talents to the World’s Greatest Super Heroes! Don’t miss your chance to hear first-hand from these comic book legends in the making as they give you the inside scoop on what’s in store for Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and other DC heroes and villains!DC talent to appear: Vita Ayala, Morgan Beem, Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Grace Ellis, Mitch Gerads, Clayton Henry, Mikel Janin, Tom King, Jim Lee, Ryan Sook, Maggie Stiefvater, Mariko Tamaki, Tom Taylor, Ram V, and Brittney Williams.
1000 PST: Jamie Rich moderates.
Kelly Sue DeConnick, one of the best people Jamie knows, is asked about Aquaman. Kelly discusses mostly the process of writing and her strengths and weaknesses and its a lovely discussion that reveals nothing.
Jamie brings Tom King in and the conversation becomes more general on writing episodically. The problems of mega arcs versus one-shots are discussed as the artists (Gerads and Henry) get involved. Clayton Henry talks about Super Friends as his introduction to American Superheros and how he used to draw Superman as a child and how getting to draw him now is a lifelong goal.
Tom Taylor talks about killing Deadshot in Suicide Squad #10. We all knew that was coming but I’m still skeptical. This makes is sound much more likely to be true.
Ram V talks about Justice League Dark and how this act is ending and his creative freedom is opening up. Look for potential new team members.
Panel members change at this point to Mariko, Mikel, Vita, Bendis and Ryan Sook.
Bendis begins with talking about Legion of Superheros. Look for a massive artist jam session with issue #9. 44 artists together– a legion of artists.
Mikel Janin talks about synergy in a creative team, using Bendis and Sook as an example. That leads to a larger discussion on entering the mythology of long run characters, specifically Mariko on Wonder Woman and Vita on Swamp Thing. Vita talks about her Swamp Thing story that is coming in the Halloween special. They were asked to write a Swamp Thing story putting Swampy somewhere he has never been before. Vita will set the story in Puerto Rico and it sounds like it will deal with how place affects characters. It sounds really exciting.
Back to Bendis to discuss Superman #25. There is an inbound alien villain created by Bendis appearing in that issue.
Mariko is also creating a new young female villain in Wonder Woman named Liar Liar. This run will center around the definitions of superhero and supervillain.
The conversation shifts back to Mikel and Ryan on designing new characters (Liar Liar and Gold Lantern respectively).
The focus now shifts to DC Young Reader books led by executive Michele Wells. First up are Grace Ellis and Brittney Williams to discuss Lois Lane and the Friendship Challenge. There is a really great energy in hearing the two of them talk about each other. It almost ties back to Janin talking about the energy created by good creative pairings. Then Michele turns the panel into a really awkward trivia contest between the two creators.
Maggie Stiefvater and Morgan Beem come in now to talk about their Swamp Thing: Twin Branches. Both talk extensively about using Alec’s biology and links to the natural world as lending itself to a coming of age story with a sense of SF fiction and creepiness about it.
