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SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2006

WIZARD WORLD CHICAGO: VERTIGO PANEL

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Chuck Dixon, writer of WildStorm's new Nightmare on Elm Street series based on the New Line Cinema movie franchise, said his first two arcs will both be three issues.

"Everything's formatted for collections these days," Dixon said at WildStorm's panel at Wizard World Chicago on Saturday. "New Line seems to like three-issue arcs."

Dixon said the stories stand on their own, but he is trying to incorporate continuity throughout -- "It all takes place on a street. Everybody can't die." He noted there will be 7-year-old girl who keeps appearing, but not long enough for Freddy Krueger to catch her, and that he wants to keep close to the tone of the first three films.

Dixon said he chose Nightmare on Elm Street over WildStorm's two other horror titles licensed from New Line -- Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. "It's an interesting juxtaposition with reality," he said. "It's a little more cerebral."

Dixon said comics can't provide the shocks a film can, so he has to work more with the characters and make them idenitifable with readers.

In other highlights from the panel:

* Describing Deathblow, writer Brian Azzarello said, "It's a story about a man who kills for a living learning to live with killing."

The series features the original character, Michael Cray. "The story picks up when they find out he's alive, when everybody though he was dead," Azzarello said.

Ivana Baiul will be in the series, but she's won't be the director of I.O.

"The Wildstorm Universe is different than what it was," Azzarello said. "It's like that Spock with a beard universe. You'll kind of recognize it, but it's different."

* Stephen Platt provides a variant cover for Deathblow #1, and sources told The Continuum it probably won't be his last work for WildStorm.

* Texas Chainsaw Massacre artist Wes Craig said he just received the first script from Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. "It plays to my strengths," he said. "I want to make it as scary as possible."

* Dixon, who also wrote the Snakes on a Plane adapation, said the movie will surpass expectations.

* Bob Wayne said there are more completed issues of WetWorks than any of the WildStorm relaunches.

* New WildStorm editor Scott Peterson said there have been "blue sky" discussions about New Line's horror characters crossing over with WildStorm characters. "There was a lot of laughing, but it was good laughing," he said.

* Peterson said that the new WildStorm Universe isn't really a reboot, but more "a soft reset."

* Describing Grant Morrison's work on Wildcats and The Authority, Peterson said, "He takes things that were implicit and makes them explicit."

Azzarello said that the reset will best be made clear in Wildcats and The Authority, and that the other titles wouldn't really focus on the changes.



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