DC Digital held a panel at Comic-Con this year to discuss their digital initiatives. Expert moderator Bob Wayne got the ball rolling by pointing out that DC released a new digital first comic every day of the week.
First up, Derek Fridolf and Dustin Nguyen spoke about an upcoming issue of Lil’ Gotham, which would feature Gotham City’s own Comic-Con. They said the issue was a love letter to comic book fandom and would be tons of fun. “We don’t worry too much about stuff, we just have fun,” Fridolf said.
Writer Tom Taylor then talked about Injustice, the digital first series that serves as a prequel to the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game. “This book explains what happened and why Batman and Superman want to tear each other’s spins out,” Taylor said. He pointed out that he loved Superman and it tears him apart to write him so sinister and violent. The bestselling series will have an upcoming annual that featuring Harley Quinn fighting Lobo. “I just wanted to write an issue where Quinn beats up Lobo. That was my pitch,” Taylor laughed.
The panel then quickly touched on Batman ’66, which is the launch of the DC Squared initiative. Some art from upcoming issues was shown which featured Penguin and the Joker. “There’s a big fan base,” editor Jim Chadwick said. He said that many creators were reaching out to him and begging to work on the series. The panelist joked that they wanted to bring Batman ’66 into some of the other digital series, like a Lil’ Gotham ’66. The audience cheered loudly at this joke. Seriously, this needs to happen.
Kyle Higgins and Christos Gage discussed the DC Beyond Universe next. Higgins expressed how much he loved the Beyond series and what a big fan he was of the original cartoon series. Some artwork from the series was showed off and it featured Batman battling a Man-Bat. Gage then showed off some art from Justice League Beyond. “Can I say who the villain is?” Gage asked and was quickly told he couldn’t by nearby editors. “It’s an old Superman villain returned, that we can say.”
Hank Kanalz then announced that The Vampire Dairies would become a weekly digital first series. The series would include lots of threads setup by the television series. “We’re very excited about this,” Wayne said. The only artwork previewed for the new series was a cover which featured a drawing of the cast of the show. No further details were given, but Kanalz stressed that lots more news would be coming up regarding this new series.
Coming in November, Scooby-Do Meets Batman and Robin would be launching. The panel stressed this was not a one shot, but rather a continuing, bi-monthly series. “This leaves the door open for the Royal Flush Gang vs. The Harlem Globetrotters, right?” Miller said to cheers from the crowd. “I want to write that,” he laughed.
Also coming up are Beware the Batman and Teen Titians GO! series. Both would be launching in the fall and follow the tone and stories of the new Cartoon Network television’s shows.
When the floor opened up to fan questions, an audience member asked about the recoloring of a Stephanie Brown character in the Halloween issue. The panel deftly dodged the question and instead focused on the proper coloring of peppers in the comic.
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