There's no better time for DC to celebrate its past, present and future than at New York Comic Con. This year, the long-running comics publisher took over the convention's Main Stage for a presentation celebrating its upcoming line of comics. DC Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, artist Tony Daniel, writer Tom King, writer N.K. Jemisin and artist Lee Bermejo stopped by to share their plans and tease the future of DC Comics.
"I've been fortunate enough to work with some of the best writers in the business: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Tom King most recently," Daniel shared. "Each one is different, and I learned something different from each writer. Grant Morrison is very technical," he added. He explained that Grant Morrison wrote two pages about how he wanted Joker to appear, whereas King was "more collaborative."
"For me, the challenge is not how to make them different, but to make them better," he continued. "When I work with James Tynion, I'm already having ideas about what I want to do with the characters... The challenge is real, but it's something I look forward to."
As to how Jemisin, a novelist, adapted her style to write comics, she said, "It was a pretty massive change. I didn't even know what the format was like... I had to teach myself to write in script format... I got the 2000 A.D. scriptbook," she recalled. "That helped me figure out how to issue directions and that kind of thing. So far, Jamal Campbell has been able to figure it out, so I guess I'm doing okay."
"It's inherently science-fictional. I'm a science fiction writer," she said. "Gerard Way came to me with an idea, and his idea was creating a new world within his universe," she revealed. "So that's what I wanted to do."
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