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June 2, 2008: Wizard World Philadelphia News

Newsarama.com covered the Wizard World convention in Philadelphia this past weekend, and there was some interesting Superman news that came out of the "DCU: Crisis Now!" panel hosted by Dan DiDio...

    DiDio also reaffirmed that "This really is the Final Crisis. The idea is to have a cohesive direction for the DC universe after this story is done."

    Final Crisis tie-in Superman Beyond was described by Didio as "The book Grant Morrison's most excited about. The book is in 3-D, and it's even in 3-D for Superman. He dies one of his eyes blue, and the other one red, so he can see everything in 3-D. You think I'm kidding? Just wait and see."

    Didio then showed a slide of the upcoming weekly series Trinity, which focuses on Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. DiDio polled the audience on what they thought of weekly books, which was met with much applause. Didio then said "We believe the weekly format works. To me, if there's a weekly book you like then there's no wasted trips comic store. Even if there's nothing else out that week that you read, at least you have that next part of the story."

    Trinity also brought up the question of the core DC character aging. DiDio said that "That's one of the challenges we face, this generational storytelling. Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman will never age, but as some supporting characters age around them we have to make sure the core three stay relevant. It's our job to make sure it all fits."

    DiDio also mentioned that the issues of Trinity will be split between what is essentially A and B storylines, as opposed to the back up and origin stories seen in 52 and Countdown.

    Next up was Superman/Batman. Shane Davis teased that the last issue of the current arc will surprise some fans. "I've read the message boards, and there are things that no one has picked up on," he said.

Read the full report at Newsarama.com.



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