Panelists include Dan Didio (Exec. Editor), Bob Wayne (VP Sales), and Jann Jones (Coordinating Editor). The first creator to join the group is Jim Califiore (Countdown).

They have a cosplayer dressed as Power Girl and another dressed as Donna Troy/Troia standing on the ends of the dais. Why bother with the panel? Before the panel started, women dressed as Black Canary, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and a female Green Lantern posed for pictures in front of the dais.

Califiore will be the artist on "Gotham Underground," a story of the Gotham underworld being invaded by the underworld from Metropolis. I think.

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"Savlation Run" involves the Flash's Rogues Gallery and they're sent to "an outer space Australia" where they're forced to find a new way of life.

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Editor Natchi Castro (?) joins the dais.

Tony Daniels joins the dais. He'll be working on the resurrection of Ra's al Ghul.

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Lots of applause for the image of Kingdom Come Superman appearing on the cover of JSA.

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"52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen." By Geoff Johns, the first cover features Superman.

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"Booster Gold" will feature Jonah Hex, Green Lanter, and Blue Beetle.

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"Legion of Superheroes." Francis Manapol is the new artist, but the new writer is unannounced.

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"Wonder Girl" is a new 6-issue miniseries written by J. Torres. Art by Sanford Greene. Addresses the insanity in Cassie Sandmark's life from Amazons Attack!, etc.

Didio makes a dirty joke of the fact that Jann Jones says "J. Torres does the best girls in comics."

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Wil Pfeifer (Catwoman) joins the dais. Zatanna appears on a Catwoman cover shown at the panel.

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Ethan Van Sciver (Sinestro Corps War) joins the dais.

Somewhere inbetween (I'm looking at my laptop), Jim Starlin joined the dais.

EVS says in GL #25, he draws a 10 page prelude of a story that will come out in 2009.

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Actually, Bob Wayne was late. He just joined the dais.

The "Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Planner" is, according to Jann Jones, "The girliest comic ever."

The bachelorette party takes place in Countdown.

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A cover for the Flash gets raucous applause. The Flash (presumably Wally) is running with his kids under his arms. Images of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman overlook him in the sky above.

Didio: "Is that the right Flash, by the way?"

The room goes nuts.

Didio: "It was Tony Daniels's decision to kill Bart, by the way."

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DC is making a commitment to books for kids. Even the kids books they were publishing previously were felt to skew a little older. Jann Jones approached Didio about doing more kids books.

Inside "Teen Titans" #50 we see the Titans have a favorite TV show, "The Tiny Titans," which appear to be a cartoon version of the original (Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, Speedy) and Wolfman-Perez Titans (Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire) in the X-babies fashion. Cassie Sandsmark and Miss Martian also appear on a cover of "Tiny Titans."

"Tiny Titans" will be its own book. (I missed the names of the creators. One of them is Art Frankoff (?).)

The creator of "Herobear" (sorry, I can't spell his name) will be doing "Bill Batson and the Magic of Shazam!" Another kids book.

These books are intended to be the kind that can be handed to any kid without worry of content. Jones praises the books for their humor.

A new "Super Friends" comic will come out (based on the Mattel line of Super Friends toys).

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Paul Levitz joins the dais and takes over the microphone.

They're going to show a 7-minute preview of "The New Frontier" DVD. Darwyn Cooke worked very closely with the cartoonists on storyboarding and scripting.

The preview shows some short snippets of the cartoon, plus brief interviews with Cooke, Didio, Levitz, etc.

Voicework: Kyle MacLauchlin (sp?) is Superman, Lucy Lawless (who has dyed her hair blonde and looks kind of hot) is Wonder Woman, Neil Patrick Harris is Flash, David Boreanz is GL, and Jeremy Sisto is Batman.

The DVD will be titled "Justice League: The New Frontier."

It looks AMAZING.

Levitz: "We see these cartoons and things that should be generation bridges."

Another half-dozen projects are in development for animation. Many of the original creators are involved.

Levitz announces an anime style Batman cartoon. They've been working on this for two years. It sprung out of the success of the "Batman Begins" movie. This will be a 6-part work. It will come out right before "The Dark Knight" movie. It will show some of what happened between the two movies. The project is still unnamed. Levitz will dash off to a meeting about the name of the cartoon after the panel. The talent of who's involved is not announced or confirmed.

Going from Didio to Levitz is like dancing with your grandmother after grinding on the dance floor with the hootchiest of hootchie mamas. Levitz is meeeeeeeeeellllllllllllloooooooooowwwwwwwwwww.

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Q: "What's going to happen to the Kubert brothers?"

A: "Adam's finishing up the Last Son of Krypton story and Andy's working on a Batman story."

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There is only one Apocalypse although there are 52 universes.

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They forgot to show the "Superman: Doomsday" trailer, so they're showing it now.

Man, it looks like a lot of fun, but they've got mullet Superman in there.

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When Didio was presented with the "Dan Didio Must Die" t-shirt at a panel at SDCC, Paul Levitz had walked in with the chairman of Warner Brothers.

Jones says the shirt is available on Cafe Press and she has the hoodie.

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Again, they refuse to answer any questions on Superboy.

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Shelly Fish is writing "Super Friends," a writer with Children's Television Workshop.

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Favorite Superheroes?

Power Girl: Power Girl
EVS: GL
Starlin: Superman
(?): Metal Men.
Bob Wayne: Plastic Man
Jones: Ambush Bug
Franco: Batman
(?): Robin
(?): Shazam!
(?): Catwoman
Torres: Robin

Sorry, I'm really bad with names.

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Q: "Any chance we'll see another DC Nation column hinting at events in Countdown like we saw with 52?"

A: "Not if the writers have anything to do with it."

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Q: "When are we getting Ralph & Sue back?"

A: "They're dead."

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Ed Benes is staying on JLA. Dale Eaglestram (sp?) is still on JSA.

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Manhunter will be re-started once they have enough issues in the can to get back on schedule.

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Question about upcoming movie projects.

Levitz says there are projects in development on "almost every key piece of the DC universe and a fair number of key pieces in the Vertigo universe." But he cautions that it's extremely difficult to see a movie project through to the end, citing the number of years between Batman movies.

"We've just had a run of five movies we're really proud of," Levitz says, citing Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Constantine, V for Vendetta, and History of Violence.

Levitz polls the audience for who should be the Flash in a movie. Wally West appears to win out. "We'll take that back and tell them about it and try to do it right."

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A fan asks about Crazy Quilt.

Didio: "Wow. You really are a geek."

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Q: "Will we see any Vertigo animated projects?"

A: They haven't green-lit any of them yet, and they're concentrating on DCU stuff.

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A blind fan asks about audiobooks.

52 should be an audiobook.

The fan urges DC to do something to accommodate blind fans.

Paul Levitz shares a story of having read the old Gardner Fox Starman/Black Canary comics into an audio cassette for a blind friend when he was a child. Without saying so explicitly, he urges fans to do the same and share files on the internet.

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Starlin has plans for Adam Strange.

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Hitman will be in the JLA two-part story by Ennis and McCrea.

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Brad Meltzer is bad in novel land for a while. Sounds like they hope for a follow up to "The Lightning Saga."

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A fan thanks Levtiz for his past Legion work.

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They're giving Warload a rest for a while.

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In Countdown and JLA, we'll see Firestorm go after Darkseid.

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Didio is asked about DC's old war comics characters, but immediately Wayne says, "No," to stop Didio from talking. Didio says "Just three letters: W. T. F."

"It's not what you think," someone on the stage says.

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No decision on "Absolute Dark Victory."

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Sounds like the Kingdom Come-JSA stuff that's been happening have mostly been worked through between Geoff Johns and Alex Ross, and Mark Waid has been kept in the loop, but is not directly involved.

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All-Star Wonder Woman: "Adam [Hughes] is working on it," Jann Jones says.

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Q: "Could you hire me so I can make your subscription system not suck?"

A (by Levitz): "I don't think anyone has been able to make a comics subscription system not suck. We keep it there to send comics like Scooby Doo to kids. It's not really designed to work. Sorry."

Didio: "Does anyone get their comics through subscription right now?"

(Crickets.)

Didio: "Okay. Good."

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Neil Gaiman is insanely busy. He talked with Karen Berger about a number of projects in San Diego, but nothing is currently in the works. He still love comics.

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Q: "Since you've got Paul Levitz up there, why don't you bring back the real Legion?"

A: "See us for the Legion's 50th anniversary."

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Q: "Are you going to kill Kyle Rayner?"

Didio polls the panel, but when he gets to Levitz and he says "no," Didio stops the polling. "No need to go any further."

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Q: "Will we see anything more from James Robinson in the future?"

A: "Definitely, yes."