Wolfman Howls at DC Again

At Wizard World Texas' "Infinite Crisis Counseling" panel this past Friday, Dan DiDio, recently promoted to Senior Vice President — Executive Editor, DC Universe, announced that Marv Wolfman, the chief architect of Crisis on Infinite Earths (with artist/co-plotter Gerorge Perez) 20 years ago is celebrating the anniversary with a return to the characters that he and Perez created even before that: "Marv is co-writing a couple of issues of Teen Titans with Geoff (Johns) and he's co-writing the Teen Titans Annual with Geoff."

DiDio also noted the Perez has a lot of work lined up with DC and that Wolfman has several pitches in with the publisher.

Other tidbits from the panel:

• Many DCU titles will be ending by the time Infinite Crisis is over, and "50 to 75 percent" of the remaining titles will have new creative teams
• 52, the weekly comic that fills the gap between Infinite Crisis and "One Year Later," starts in May, two weeks after the last issue of Infinite Crisis
• Zero Hour will be covered in Infinite Crisis, but Hypertime will not.
• The positive response to Jason Todd's return as the Red Hood in Batman indicates that he will be around awhile. How he has returned and how it ties into "The Death in the Family," the story where he was seemingly killed, will be the focus of the upcoming Batman Annual
• Blue Beetle Ted Kord, killed in Countdown to Infinite Crisis, will remain dead
• Speculation that Jim Corrigan, the corrupt cop from Gotham Central, will become the new Spectre is likely correct. Corrigan was the name of the original name of Spectre's human host . He was replaced by fallen hero Hal Jordan in recent years, but the Spectre is currently without a human host since Jordan returned to the mantle of Green Lantern

Read full coverage of the panel here.