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Okay, here we GO!
The other four posters can be found here:
The Search for Ray Palmer
The Seduction of the Innocent
Unto Man Shall Come... A Great Disaster
Villains Defiant
- DC's Weekly Series "Countdown" will start with issue 51 on May 9th one week following the completion of 52 (appropriately on 5/2), and finish 52 weeks later with issue zero. The series will be acting as the backbone of the DCU, and the repurcussions of the monthlies will be reflected in the pages of Countdown (they used the examples "someone having a baby" and "a Wedding", leading me to believe that the rumored marraige of Green Arrow and Black Canary will be happening in this book).
- The book will be 2.99, 49 cents up from the cost of 52. No word on whether it'll be up to a usual monthly's worth of content with the price.
- The Process of the Book: Paul Dini writes the overall story, which he then breaks down week by week with the Editor, and delivers to the individual weekly writers. The writers work their magic and deliver a script to Keith Giffen who does the panel by panel breakdowns before its all delivered to the artists. Cover Artists will rotate month by month, and J.G. Jones will probably join in later on in the series for one of those months.
- 52 dealt with the Third-Tier Characters, and Countdown will focus on the Second-Tier Characters (I would define Third Tier characters as those without a book who exist outside of the mainstream books, occasionally popping in... Second Tier would be characters like the Teen Titans and Green Arrow).
- Mary Marvel will go on a Hero's Journey, and some of her choices will be surprising. (It's been implied that she'll be one of the primary characters in Countdown)
- Newsarama got this wrong... Their website says that the Death of Ralph Dibny is still a story that needs to be finished. What Didio was actually refering to was Faust being captured in Fate's Tower, and pretending to be Deadman in JLoA. The missing link between those two moments is the untold story.
- "There will be one key appearance form one key character in 52 that's essential to one of the storylines that's already been shown"
- On the Villains Defiant poster it seems that The Trickster has been shackled to Doomsday (but if I'm wrong, somebody please correct me). Didio mentioned that the central idea behind this scenario was that two of the unlikeliest of villains will spend most of the year cuffed together as they explore the depths of the DCU's Villainous Underworld.
- "What's Darkseid doing in the picture?" "He's looking evil!"
- Kyle Rayner will be around in Countdown
- The Monitors will be involved as well.
- Sean McKeever has another project on his plate with DC other than Countdown, but it's still top secret.
- Paul Dini will be staying on Detective Comics for the forseeable future.
- On an unrelated note, DC has uncancelled Manhunter once again.
- New Project! "Captain Carrot and the Final Ark"! The central villain will be Ra's Alpaca. (An Alpaca is sort of like a half-llama, half-sheep. They is very soft and wonderful)
There's more stuff over at Newsarama, and I'll summarize the DCU Panel tomorrow.
The other four posters can be found here:
The Search for Ray Palmer
The Seduction of the Innocent
Unto Man Shall Come... A Great Disaster
Villains Defiant
- DC's Weekly Series "Countdown" will start with issue 51 on May 9th one week following the completion of 52 (appropriately on 5/2), and finish 52 weeks later with issue zero. The series will be acting as the backbone of the DCU, and the repurcussions of the monthlies will be reflected in the pages of Countdown (they used the examples "someone having a baby" and "a Wedding", leading me to believe that the rumored marraige of Green Arrow and Black Canary will be happening in this book).
- The book will be 2.99, 49 cents up from the cost of 52. No word on whether it'll be up to a usual monthly's worth of content with the price.
- The Process of the Book: Paul Dini writes the overall story, which he then breaks down week by week with the Editor, and delivers to the individual weekly writers. The writers work their magic and deliver a script to Keith Giffen who does the panel by panel breakdowns before its all delivered to the artists. Cover Artists will rotate month by month, and J.G. Jones will probably join in later on in the series for one of those months.
- 52 dealt with the Third-Tier Characters, and Countdown will focus on the Second-Tier Characters (I would define Third Tier characters as those without a book who exist outside of the mainstream books, occasionally popping in... Second Tier would be characters like the Teen Titans and Green Arrow).
- Mary Marvel will go on a Hero's Journey, and some of her choices will be surprising. (It's been implied that she'll be one of the primary characters in Countdown)
- Newsarama got this wrong... Their website says that the Death of Ralph Dibny is still a story that needs to be finished. What Didio was actually refering to was Faust being captured in Fate's Tower, and pretending to be Deadman in JLoA. The missing link between those two moments is the untold story.
- "There will be one key appearance form one key character in 52 that's essential to one of the storylines that's already been shown"
- On the Villains Defiant poster it seems that The Trickster has been shackled to Doomsday (but if I'm wrong, somebody please correct me). Didio mentioned that the central idea behind this scenario was that two of the unlikeliest of villains will spend most of the year cuffed together as they explore the depths of the DCU's Villainous Underworld.
- "What's Darkseid doing in the picture?" "He's looking evil!"
- Kyle Rayner will be around in Countdown
- The Monitors will be involved as well.
- Sean McKeever has another project on his plate with DC other than Countdown, but it's still top secret.
- Paul Dini will be staying on Detective Comics for the forseeable future.
- On an unrelated note, DC has uncancelled Manhunter once again.
- New Project! "Captain Carrot and the Final Ark"! The central villain will be Ra's Alpaca. (An Alpaca is sort of like a half-llama, half-sheep. They is very soft and wonderful)
There's more stuff over at Newsarama, and I'll summarize the DCU Panel tomorrow.
He's gonna get into a bar fight with Jonah Hex.
