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MONDAY, JULY 30, 2007

COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: WILDSTORM PANEL

By Ernie Estrella

SAN DIEGO -- WildStorm Productions staged its Comic-Con International panel on Saturday.

Panel attendees included Jim Lee (Wildcats), Scott Peterson (Editor), Gail Simone (Gen 13), Ben Abernathy (Editor), Christos Gage (Armageddon), Hank Kanalz (VP General Manager) and Brian Azzarello (Deathblow).

Following are highlights:

* The six Armageddon specials, written by Christos Gage with covers by Mike McKone, kick off in october with Midnighter: Armageddon, by Gage and Simon Coleby.

Void mysteriously returns and transports the Midnighter to a not-so-distant future in which London has been destroyed -- by the crashed wreckage of the Authorityıs dimension-shifting Carrier!

The book will ship bi-monthly.

* Lee discussed the license to produce World of Warcraft comics, noting he is a longtime player of WOW and the fantasy genre. He will provide covers for the first six issues. The series will be written by Walt Simonson, with art by Ludo Lullabi.

* As previously reported, Lee and Alex Ross ar providing covers for WildStorm's collection of the material based on NBC's Heroes.

* WildStorm is pursuing a Veronica Mars comic but nothing could be announced or confirmed.

* The adaptation of the Trick 'R Treat film, written by Marc Andrekyo, will mirror the film's format, with four interlocking vignettes.

* New Line Cinema's Tales of Horror is a new horror story combining the slasher fun of A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Gage described the story as someone is going around killing with a red and green sweater, it's not Freddy and that makes him mad.

* Abernathy spoke about The Programme, written by Peter Milligan with art from CP Smith. It involves Soviet soldiers who are weapons of mass destruction and who come to life thinking that Joseph Stalin is still alive. The Programme will run 12 issues.

* Ex Machina is so far ahead of schedule that WildStorm will be releasing a Halloween story Masquerade Specialat the end of the summer.

* Ex Machina's new story arc is called "Ex Cathedra." It takes place at the Vatican, where Hundred meets an influential world leader.

* Lee addressed the lateness of Wildcats, saying that he and Grant Morrison are still committed to the title and that he wanted to wrap up All Star Batman first, which is the current hold-up, and then work on WildCATS.

* The Authority: Prime is a six issue mini-series with Gage and art by Darick Robertson and is a story that fits into the continuity .

* Wildstorm Revelations is a new bi-weekly book that follows the Savants post-Armageddon.

* In an upcoming Gen 13 story Grunge absorbs some powers that give him some interesting attributes.

* Gail Simone will be taking a break from Gen 13 with #13 and will pass the writing torch to Simon Oliver for six issues.

* Kanalz endorsed Welcome to Tranquility as "a great zombie book that if you're not reading you should and if you are reading it, buy some for your friends. It is one of our best books we do."

* Azzarello said that Deathblow continues and is a meditation on torturous moral questions, talking dogs and cool art.



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