Comic-Con 2008 - Second day

First panel I went to Friday was for Batman: Brave and the Bold, a new cartoon coming out this fall on Cartoon Network. I was curious how it might be dealing with Batman in a way that might be unique.

The panel was comprised of producers Sam Register and James Tucker (Tucker seems to be the big ideas guy for this cartoon), writer Michael Jelenic, director Brandon Vietti, voice director Andrea Romano, and voice actor Diedrich Bader, who does the voice of Batman in this cartoon.

The new take on Batman being done in this instance is:

• Does not take place in Gotham City.
• Does not use Alfred.
• Does not use Commissioner Gordon.
• Does not use Robin.
• Has Batman teaming up with generally lesser known DC heroes.
• Has Batman fighting against generally lesser known DC villains.
• Does not take a dark tone, as it needs to be child friendly.

A very entertaining video was shown of short clips from the cartoon.

Also went to Spotlight on Connie Willis. I've enjoyed many of her novels, so definitely wanted to see and hear her at this.

She was first given one of Comic-Con's own achievement awards, the Inkpots.

She then talked about what she is currently is working on, especially a novel that she has had in the works for more than 10 years, All Clear, and is hoping to have wrapped up and on the way to her editor within 4 weeks.

She also talked about other writing she has plans to do, a couple stories and then a novel.

She then took questions, which got her talking at length about her passion for history and incorporating it into her science fiction, about writing comedy science fiction, and other topics.

Here are my second day photos.