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February 25, 2015: Jeff King Shares "Convergence" Secrets

Convergence ComicBookResources.com sat down with Jeff King, the lead writer on DC's "Convergence" event taking place across April/May, to get a clearer insight into what we can expect from the villains and heroes of this story. Here's part of that interview...

    We've known Brainiac as a collector of worlds, but Telos as a new force seems to be an offshoot of him that has his own ideas. Where does this new character diverge from his "Father" and how does that complicate the story?

    You must be prescient! Have you ever been a mind reader? [Laughs] Without saying too much about it, I will say that Brainiac and Telos are intimately connected, and we're going to reveal something about the meta history of Brainiac's role in the DCU. That's connected to what Grant Morrison has been doing in "Multiversity," and it speaks to some ideas that came through in "Doomed" and in "Action Comics" #35. I can tell you that we're going to have a rich understanding of those characters, and you're going to see a very complicated relationship between Brainiac and Telos. Initially, the odds for our heroes are not going to be pretty because of that.

    As all this is going on, there is this multitude of two-issue tie-in series which revisit past eras of the DC Multiverse. And we've noticed that those minis roll out week-by-week with each new wave addressing a different event in DC's past from "Flashpoint" to "Zero Hour" to "Crisis" and so on. Can we assume that the story of the main "Convergence" series will also kind of rotate through those past eras as each new weekly issue arrives?

    That's a really good question - and the answer is that, in the unfolding of the conflicts that have been set up by Brainiac's original plan, you'll see an intention to go back through that timeline - that series of consecutive events. But other than that, everything is leading up to one final conflict, and you'll see that in our story.

    As you're very new to writing comic books, how have you responded to playing in the DC Universe? Is there any one character or franchise that you've found yourself most drawn to as you go?

    Oh jeez. [Laughs] I think the relationships in the Bat family and also all of the connections between the characters I didn't formerly understand or appreciate that I do now - I couldn't even begin to start! Every event that's happened up to this point, whether it be "Flashpoint" or "Zero Hour" or "Kingdom Come," all inform and serve as background for what's to come in "Convergence," but with a twist.

Read the entire interview at the CBR website.



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