KingdomCome

Last week DC Comics announced that Superman and Wonder Woman would lock lips in the upcoming Justice League #12, and unlike their previous lip-locks (like the one above, from John Byrne and George Perez's Action Comics #600 in 1988), this one would lead to an actual relationship, making them the DC Universe's premiere super-power couple...

What happens when superheroes grow old? It's been addressed in plenty of comic book stories from Frank Miller's classic old Batman story "The Dark Knight Returns" to the grey-haired Superman of "Kingdom Come," and of course, Marvel entire series of "The End" comics, imagining the final days of heroes like Wolverine, the Hulk, and the X-Men...

My first stop of the day was a DC Comics panel on Countdown. I had expected this to be a normal discussion with the people on stage talking for a while then opening the floor to questions from the audience. Instead, after the introductions of Dan DiDio, editors Mike Marts, Mike Carlin, artists Jim Calafiore and Dan Jurgens, writers Paul Dini, Sean McKeever, Adam Beechen, Tony Bedard, Justin Gray a