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Sunday, March 20, 2005

WIZARD WORLD L.A.: DC PANEL

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A new Jonah Hex series was among the announcements at the DC Universe panel at Wizard World L.A. on Saturday.

The book will be written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. Frank Quitely has done the cover for the first issue (click on the thumbnail above for a larger images), and Palmiotti said each issue will have a different cover artist. The book's interior artist was not announced.

It's totally the Western genre and each issue will have self-contained stories with a beginning, middle and end," Palmiotti said. "When I was younger, I had every issue of this book, and Justin and I are thrilled to be on it."

In other highlights from the panel:

* Dan DiDio said the work on the 80-page DC Countdown by writers Greg Rucka, Geoff Johns and Judd Winick was "seamless."

"I challenge anyone to tell me who wrote what."

* Bill Willingham said Day of Vengeance introduces a new super-team whose intelligence officer is Detective Chimp. He also noted the mini-series will spotlight characters you haven't seen in a while, such as Ragman and Nightshade.

* Rucka said The OMAC Project starts 30 seconds before DC Countdown ends. "It's paranoid and it has Batman in it," he said.

* Gail Simone said Villains United is about six villains, including Deadshot, Chesire and Catman. "It's got sex, it's got violence and it's got poison."

* Grant Morrison on Seven Soldiers of Victory: "It starts at the dawn of time, ends at the end of the universe, and everything that happens in between is in it. And the good guys win."

And: "It starts out with the New Gods and the neanderthals and end with the Earth plunging into the sun."

He said the seven characters never meet, but their actions effect each other.

Winick and Josh Middleton are team on Shazam/Superman: First Thunder, a four-issue mini-series starting in September.

* In Action Comics, Rucka said that Lois Lane discovers who shot her and why.

* Jeph Loeb on his Superman/Batman story with Ed McGuinness: "The guys go up against a team called The Maximums. It's the ultimate version of a team and I think these guys are marvelous heroes."

The six-part story, "With a Vengeance," stars in Superman/Batman #20.

* The third Teen Titans Go! Digest is scheduled for July.

* In Wonder Woman, Diana, Ferdinand and Cassie are enlisted by Athen to go to the underworld. "Everybody comes back changed for the books this summer, where change is the gentle way to describe what happens."

Rucka said artists Rags Morales and Michael Bair and "shooting adrenaline into the book."

* Geoff Johns said the ongoing Green Lantern title will play into aspects of Hal Jordan being a space cop and that he will be involved with the Air Force.

"We get to the core of Hal Jordan -- who this person is and what he wants," Johns said. "He's a character I'd love to have a beer with ... but I can't go into comic books."

* In Hawkman, look for Golden and Silver Age foes to return with a mysterious agenda. "Stuff hits the fan in #45," Palmiotti said. "It changes the book forever."

* Johns on the "Rogues War" story in Flash: "It's a very personal story for Flash, and people will be surprised where it leads."

* Marc Andreyko said that Manhunter will feature various Manhunters in the "Manhunted" story arc. "Some will be here after this and some will not," he said, adding that a trade paperback of the first five issues will be released this fall.

* Mark Waid said that the 30-page stories will continue in Legion of Super-Heroes.

"It gives us plenty of elbow room," he said, "although the stories will remain fairly tight, with two or three characters at a time. We're still building to the notion of an interplanetary war."

Waid said the kids are more like agents of chaos, not order.

* Johns and Allan Heinberg are teaming on a five-part story that begins in JLA #115 and follows Batman's treatment in Identity Crisis.

* Amanda Conner joins Johns on the first three issues of JSA: Classified, which spotlights the origin of Power Girl. "I'm channeling my inner Wally Wood," Conner said.

* The Space Ghost mini-series will be collected in a trade paperback.

* DC released a preview image of Justice, the bi-monthly series by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Doug Braithwaite.

* The Question will show up against after his mini-series concludes.

* DiDio said he's received pitches for Metal Men, but nothing that has been greenlighted yet. He also said there's interest in Titans East, but there's too much going on with Teen Titans currently for that to happen in the near future.

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