Rocking The Fringe Of The DCU – Young Animal At WonderCon With Gerard Way, Jody Houser, Cecil Castellucci, Jon Rivera
>A fresh 60 minutes after the opening of WonderCon in Anaheim, California, on Friday, March 21st, the Young Animal panel kicked off the show, bringing together editor Jamie S. Rich, curator, writer, artist and rock star Gerard Way, writer Jody Houser (Mother Panic), writer Cecil Castellucci (Shade: The Changing Girl), and writer Jon Rivera (Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye).
>Starting off with a discussion of Doom Patrol, and noting that the Director’s Cut was released this week, they also said issue number 6 is coming up in April. Way said he feels “super lucky” to be working on the title, and brought up the new scheduling on Doom Patrol. More complicated to put together than expected, the series is going to arrive after a hiatus between 6 and 7, drawn by Mike Allred. Way said keeping the quality of the book was the biggest issue, and they want to be able to guarantee dates rather than being behind. Cancelling the three issues for orders was so that they could re-solicit after the restructuring of the schedule.
>Since Way is involved in all of the Young Animal comics, he clarified that he is involved in running the imprint, doing business stuff constantly, so that can get in the way of writing scripts fast enough, he said. He looks at everything that comes in from Young Animal, which takes time. Asked about the evolution of Larry Trainor, Way said he was a character who needed to be figured out over time since the character changed a lot in the past since his inception. He’s constantly evolving as a character, too. He’s never had a say about what’s happening to his body, so Way wanted to give him a chance to talk about that. He’s “different” now since he’s encountered the Negative Spirit.