It took a while, but we managed to compile all the important headlines from Marvel and DC at this past weekend’s Baltimore Comic Con.

There was some new stuff, some old stuff, and as always, some interesting stuff, so read on!

-Brian Michael Bendis announced he is leaving Mighty Avengers with Issue #20.Bendis said he’s moving on to the new series called Dark Avengers with art by Mike Deodato.

-Dan Slott will take over Mighty Avengers with Issue #21. Slott said he’s leaving the Initiative, but Chris Gage will pick it up as solo writer.

-Spider-Woman: Agent of Sword by Bendis and Alex Maleev will debut March 2008. It will be the first ongoing by the team since they left Daredevil.

-Dan Slott said that “New Ways to Die” concludes with Amazing Spider-Man #573 that has a back-up story with Marvel presidential candidate Stephen Colbert in it.

-Slott said he will also soon be explaining how Harry Osborn is back, and a John Romita Jr. arc with Marc Guggenheim will answer a lot of the questions people have been asking about Spider-Man. Slott said everything in the Spider-Man Universe will come to a “giant climax” in that story.

-C.B Cebulski told the audience that Damon Lindelof’s scripts are all turned in for Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk, and the art will be worked on after Secret Invasion.

-Ultimates 4 is in the works by Jeph Loeb and Frank Cho. Ed McGuinness was originally planned to work on the series but moved to Hulk. The artwork he did on Ultimates 4 will be reused in some way, shape or form.

-DCU Executive Editor Dan DiDio said that October sees a return to Final Crisis in a big way, with the return of Legion of 3 Worlds, Rogue’s Revenge and Final Crisis #4, as well as the two one-shots, Final Crisis: Resist and Final Crisis: Submit, which are designed to show what life on Earth is like after the heroes have been defeated by Darkseid.

-Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns according to Geoff Johns, will serve to officially introduce the Red Lanterns as a force.

-Moving on to Justice Society, Johns said that after the “Thy Kingdom Come” story wraps up, Black Adam and Isis will take center stage, and while Felix Faust will pay for hiding Isis from Adam, the main thrust of the storyline will be Black Adam and Isis taking over the Rock of Eternity.

-The forthcoming Power Girl series will pick up thematically on what Johns and artist Amanda Conner did with the character in JSA Classified’s opening arc.

-Power Girl and Geo-Force will appear in the coming Terra miniseries. Sean McKeever added that Terra also appears in Terror Titans, noting that currently in his scripts, she’s being beaten up.

-DiDio then moved on to talk about Justice League of America, which will soon see the full-on return of the Milestone characters as the Shadow Cabinet is placed against the JLA.
DiDio also said that Batgirl will play a prominent role in Batman and the Outsiders as well as in the Batman titles next year – plans for which will be announced early next year.

-The “War of Light” storyline begins in Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps in October, Johns said, adding that he and GLC writer Peter Tomasi have discussed the various spectra of Lanterns, as well as their associated emotion at length. Johns said that despite what readers may think, the various emotions represented won’t be demonstrated by the Lanterns in the way they may be thinking. “Pete and I talked a lot about the ‘love’ corps [the Blue Lanterns],” Johns said. “We asked ourselves if that would that be lame, and realized that love can be scary as well.”

-DiDio spoke about the “Faces of Evil” theme that will run through January’s titles. While the villains of the DC Universe will be given a chance to shine with spotlight stories in the mainstream hero titles shipping that month, four associated Specials shipping in January were also announced:

Solomon Grundy co-written by Geoff Johns and Scot Kolins, with art by Kolins

Prometheus written by Sterling Gates. “It’s really, really fun and really, really violent,” Gates said. “Almost as violent as a Sean McKeever book.”

Kobra - which will establish a new status quo for the DC Universe’s leading global terrorist organization.

Deathstroke - set after the events of DC Universe: Last Will and Testament.

-All characters in the respective specials will play large roles in the stories of 2009, DiDio said.

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Tags: Avengers, Baltimore Comic Con, Final Crisis, Green Lanterns, Spider-man

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