Wizard World Texas: Friday report
I’ll hit a lot of this stuff more in-depth later, but here’s a few quick hits from Wizard World Texas, going on this weekend in Arlington.
* Ethan Van Sciver was pumped about his new Batman action figure that he designed from the DC Direct Superman/Batman series 6 “Enemies Among Us” line. Van Sciver said the Hal Jordan from the line was already sold out at the booth he visited.
* Van Sciver also said he’d have an interest in an “Aquaman” series with writer and frequent collaborator Geoff Johns.
* DC Story Editor Ian Sattler told attendees at the DC Nation panel to look for a lot more Deathstroke, Lobo and Animal Man in 2009.
* Crowd seemed decent for a Friday.
* Saw some neat DC Treasury editions, including the somewhat hard to find and not-available-in-trade-paperback Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.
* Sattler encouraged everybody in the crowd to pick up “Supergirl,” by OU graduate Sterling Gates.
* Sattler insisted that “Final Crisis” would make sense once the final issue came out, and said readers should consider “Superman Beyond” to be the closest of the tie-in miniseries. Sattler said that “Legion of 3 Worlds” would be extremely important to DC Comics in the coming years.
* Writer-artist Billy Tucci talked about the Japanese-American soldiers who served in World War II, who were the real-life inspiration behind “Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion.”
More later!
- Matt Price
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