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Newsarama: Mark, I’m really excited to see you and Dan Mora taking on Justice League Unlimited.
Does this feel like the next level of your long running creative partnership?
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But this is a story that’s set in the modern era.
Waid:There are a couple things.
It really is the big place where all the big things are happening.
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You brought up the roster.
It’s a massive roster, basically any hero in the DC Universe is fair game it seems.
Waid:There are a couple of factors.
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So there’s always three levels of characters that I’m gonna have in every single book.
It helps that there will be running subplots.
And there’s some other smaller stuff that will be happening.
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By the end of Justice League Unlimited #1, I think you’ll have a sense of that.
What made you decide on using Airwave?
Waid:That is a deep, deep cut character my friend.
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But I’ve always liked the costume, I’ve always liked the character.
I like the fact that he’s a generational hero, that his dad was also Airwave.
Again, we’ll get into this in the main JLU book as we go.
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What can you tell us about this new threat?
They’ll be popping up quite frequently as we roll toward the end of our first year.
This new League has Superman front and center.
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He is the one who has decided there has to be a League.
He’s organizing this.
Waid:Because everybody trusts Superman.
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So if Superman asks you to join the team, the answer is automatically yes.
Waid:One of the big differences is that, in the field, he’s not the leader.
And one of Wonder Woman’s abilities is, she’s a warrior.
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She’s bred for this sort of thing.
She’s born for this sort of thing.
Superman is a good at that, but Wonder Woman is the best.
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I want to circle back a little bit to Dan Mora’s art.
I really loved seeing what he’s doing with a title of this caliber.
How much are you letting him just kind of take free reign with which characters are on the page?
But that’s kind of the rule of thumb.
If they have a line of dialogue, it’s from me.
If not, it’s something that Dan threw in.
I also want to double-check and mention our colorist Tamra Bonvillain.
Waid:I never in my life thought that I would become a Doctor Occult fan.
And again, if I’m doing my job right, I will make you like that character too.
How is the Darkseid of it all going to play into Justice League Unlimited as the title continues?
Waid:It’s a big part of the back half of the first year.
We will start to see the repercussions.
There are actually some Darkseid connections right away in JLU #2.
Waid:It really is a tradition as much as anything else.
And it’s not just about tradition.
I want to talk about the title, Justice League Unlimited.
Obviously it has its origins in the beloved animated series.
What was the motivation to choose that as the title and the mission statement for this team?
How does that play into the story?
Waid:That was all my editor, Paul Kaminsky.
That was him saying “This is the tack we should take.”
And he was right.
Why do you think it’s so important to get back to that now?
Waid:That’s a good question.
So this is the epitome of that.
This is the the DC Universe distilled into one book.
You’re continuing to work on Batman/Superman: World’s Finest alongside Justice League Unlimited.
Will we be seeing some of those temporal connections between World’s Finest and Justice League Unlimited?
Waid:Oh yeah, definitely.
That’s deliberate, and I enjoy playing that card.
It’s just set, you know, a few years in the past.
Waid:I think the answer to both is the same.
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