John Rood introduced the moderator – Bob Wayne – who then introduced the panelists. Geoff Johns took the stage and showed off the Trinity War video we premiered last week, which you can see below. Jeff Lemire came out next, and added, “The fun thing is seeing that team interact with the greater Justice League universe. If you see Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman as the holy trinity of the DCU, I see Constantine, Zatanna, and Deadman as the unholy trinity.”
They showed off a page from Forever Evil and brought up Aquaman, where Johns answered the question we’ve all been asking. “People keep asking me if Arthur is going to fight Sharknado. He’s not, but he would win.”
Brian Buccellato came up next, wearing an appropriately fashioned Flash mask, and even showed off his fresh Flash tattoo. He couldn’t say much about Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion, but did say,“They don’t have world domination or any crazy ideas of what they do. They’re about stealing; they’re about the job. They want to drink beer at the end of the day and know that they stole something really expensive.”
Johns added that the series was focused on how the Rogues deal with the villains taking over, and how they’re not necessarily okay with that. “If you guys have seen the movie The Warriors, it’s like that.”
Lemire called the Count Vertigo special for Villains Month the creepiest thing he’s ever written, so much so that he freaked himself out with it. As for Animal Man, Lemire said he was trying to focus on Buddy’s celebrity status to explore our current culture. He said he was excited to be working with new artist Rafael Albuquerque, and that they’d be sending Animal Man on a space adventure soon. They should some pages from Trillium, and Lemire said that they’d be doing some things special to the floppy editions, storytelling-wise, and that he enjoyed playing with format.
Mark Buckingham came out next and showed off the cover for Fables #134, which features Bigby Wolf and Boy Blue. He also debuted some new pages from the upcoming story arc “Camelot,” a tale primarily featuring Rose Red. They also touched on The Unwritten/Fables story, which Buckingham called a “very much a collaborative adventure between all of us.”
Gail Simone was the next creator to come out, who joked about Batman getting punched by Gordon in the last issue. She also said that the new art team was the best art team she’s every worked with. “Fernando [Pasarin] is so good at characterization that we can build so much tension and characterization on the page without having to add a whole lot of captions or anything.” She said that all of her characters are at their edges as Gordon hunts Batgirl for killing his son (she didn’t, really).
Simone spoke highly of her collaborator on The Movement, Freddie Williams II, saying that she was proud that the book didn’t really look like any other superhero comics being published today.
Adam Hughes joined the panel to talk a little bit about his work on Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan, joking “I aged President years working on that project.” The panel also showed off Hughes’ cover to The Fables Encyclopedia, which is a wrap around.
Sadly, I had to cut out of the panel at this point to head to another commitment! Comic-Con madness!
Joey is a Senior Editor at IGN and a comic book creator. Follow Joey on Twitter @JoeyEsposito, or find him on IGN at Joey-IGN. He often wonders whatever happened to Billy's RadBug.
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