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DC NATION PANEL - Friday, July 27, 2007 Notes furiously taken and feverishly transcribed by Bruce MacIntosh
The DC Nation panel at Comic-Con proceeding on a normal pace as other DC Nation panels, with Executive Editor Dan DiDio firing off questions to the panel members and deflecting attempts to get him to reveal secret future plans.
Also in attendance were Bob Wayne (VP Sales), Jann Jones (Coordinating Editor), Paul Dini (Head Writer for Countdown), Bill Willingham (Writer of Shadowpact, Detective, and a new mini-series, Salvation Run), Ethan Van Sciver (“the man who made ‘green’ a household word”), Geoff Johns (writer for almost every DC book), Grant Morrison (writer for Seven Soldiers, Batman, and according to DiDio, “man who masterminded the Multiverse”), and J.G. Jones (new interior artist for Final Crisis.)
Dan DiDio warned that they’d answer questions, but it is not necessarily the truth.
Grant Morrison is going to write Final Crisis. This will feature Kamandi on the last page of the first issue (If I could understand him correctly! The funniest part of the panel was when someone from Scotland stepped up to the audience microphone and asked Geoff Johns a question, and Grant Morrison had to translate the question for him.)
Countdown is trying to give a sense of real time in the month, so all four issues that occur in that month occurred somewhere in that month. (Unlike 52, where they would define the exact week in which events occurred.)
Trickster and Pied Piper have taken an unwitting hand in the death of the Flash, shackled together and taken in by Deadshot, and thrown out of a plane. “They are in a tight spot” said Paul Dini, “and things are about to get tighter for them.”
The death of the Flash and the "innocent" villains being captured and disappearing, leads to “Salvation Run” – the heroes are sick of the revolving door at Arkham and other supervillain prisons. So the idea is to ship them all off to their own island. But things don’t work out that well. The Joker will be one of those villains.
There will be three different versions of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Batman will figure this out soon.
Blue Beetle will cross over into Sinestro Corps, according to Johns. He assured us that Blue Beetle wouldn’t die, because they are trying to keep the book lighthearted.
J.G. Jones, the artist on the 52 covers, is doing the interior art for Final Crisis.
What’s up with Harley in an Amazon spa and being “good” in Countdown? The answer is in the October issue of Detective.
It is possible that Terry Moore will some day write Supergirl.
There will be a lot more weird aliens in Sinestro Corps, according to Ethan Van Sciver: They have a total of 7,200 icky aliens to design!
There is going to be another death of a major character in the DC Universe soon. But Dan DiDio assured us that it is “all for the better story, the greater good.”
How finished is Bart Allen’s story? Dan DiDio asked Geoff Johns, and Johns said to DiDio, “Don’t spoil it!”
Is there an Earth-1? Johns said, “Kinda”, and Morrison said, “There are just some things ya canna say.”
Morrison: “Wait til ya see Superman from a Nazi planet?” (Earth-10, by the way.)
All-Star Batgirl has been put on hold, with the obligations Johns has taken on with Final Crisis.
Morrison says that Super Chief will return some day.
Bob Wayne said that if there was, indeed, a completed Walt Simonson and Steve Ditko New Gods story that never got published (because of the cancellation of the late-80s Orion book) then he knows just the comic to publish it in now.
Jann Jones assured us that they are making every effort to get the books back on schedule and put out on a consistent basis.
Ra’s Al Ghul will appear – in some form or another – in Batman #670 & #671. (And Morrison also mentioned the Sensei.)
There are plans to celebrate DC’s 75th anniversary in 2010, according to Bob Wayne.
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I guess a better way to say it would have been, "Yes. DC does have plans in the works to celebrate their 75th Anniversary. (This will be in 2010.)"
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