2013 Comic Book News Archives

October 3, 2013: Bryan Q. Miller Brings Teen Titans to "Smallville"

Smallville: Titans Writer Bryan Q. Miller is bringing the Teen Titans to the "Smallville" comic book series, in a four week digital-first story titled "Smallville: Titans", with Chapter #1 available tomorrow.

Newsarama.com spoke with Bryan to find out why the "Smallville" comic books are changing format, and what we can expect from upcoming stories...

    Q: Bryan, how has it been overall to expand the Smallville universe through comics, and why was the switch made to mini-series and specials instead of the ongoing?

    Bryan Q. Miller: To the best of my knowledge, we shifted gears a bit in presentation to help lower the intimidation factor for new and potential readers. If you're on the digital store, and you see "Smallville Season 11: Chapter 70," that's kind of two sets of qualifiers that shout "You're really behind on your reading!" So rolling back to #1 with each new arc lessens that.

    Q: What was the motivation for the Titans special?

    Miller: Aside from me wanting to play with a version of the Teen Titans? Superboy. We've been doing "parallel" stories that are shorter than the main arcs and sort of run along side them, from a narrative standpoint. We had some staggering craziness happening as we transitioned from our previous main Supergirl arc ("Argo") into our current Wonder Woman arc ("Olympus") that dictated we start the next side story before "Olympus" finished. So we had to get a new smaller story started, with someone related to the show but not involved in all the madness in Washington D.C. in the main arc... and since we mentioned that Conner (who we first met in Season 10) was at a school for the "gifted" in San Francisco during "Olympus"... you can see where we're going.

    Q: Besides Conner, what other characters will we see in the issue?

    Miller: Jaime Reyes! Megan Morse! Mia Dearden! Zan and Jayna Whatever Their Last Names Are! And their mentor/teacher, Jay Garrick! As well as a villain we haven't met, but who has ties to some bits and pieces of Season 10.

Read the entire interview at the Newsarama website.



2013 Comic News

Listed below are all the Comic News items archived for 2013.


Back to the News Archive Contents page.

Back to the Latest News page.