The only panel I’ve attended here at Wizard World Chicago was the DC Comics panel which gave some info on upcoming titles.

Geoff Johns reports that an upcoming arc in Teen Titans will have the team visiting their future selves a decade down the road, when the Titans have become Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Flash, and they aren’t happy with the changes in their lives.

Meanwhile, JSA will be crossing over with the JSA of the 1950s.

Kurt Busiek takes over the chores on JLA. This isn’t new news. I merely report it to tell you that this announcement was followed by rousing applause of a roomful of happy fans. About as many as who cheered at the announcement that Hal Jordan returns to Green Lantern later this year. (Again, not news. A lot of this isn’t new news, but it was accompanied by full-color slides showing the covers.)

The Question wll be returning in a six-issue mini-series which looks to have a gritty realism.

THEN…they announced a special guest. David Goyer, writer of Batman Begins. At this announcement, a skinny young guy two chairs away from me the whole time got up and spoke!

Goyer said, in response to an audience question, that there were no “Bat-nipples”, no product placements, no neon street gangs. (Applause!) Someone asked if they were very glad that Joel Schumacher was nowhere near the movie. Bob Wayne of DC said they were trying to be diplomatic…but he had introduced the trailer as, “We’re glad we can show a trailer for a Batman movie that we know you’ll all enjoy.”

Goyer was asked if there was going to be a sequel! He said that there was almost certainly to be a sequel, though that was a long way off. The person who asked then asked who would be the villain in that one and who would play him. (Geesh. Fanboys.) Goyer added that this movie is essentially a reboot of the Batman films, and new movies will be starting afresh.

As for the Batmobile (which has been spotted filming on the streets of Chicago along Wacker Drive), Goyer said that they wanted a car which worked and looked like it could take a corner without rolling over. (The previous Batmobile wasn’t able to do much besides charge in a straight line.)

Later today was a Green Lantern/Batman Begins event which would reveal a number of new tidbits of info, but you needed a wristband from the DC booth to attend. By the time we could even exit the room and get back to the booth, the wristbands were already gone! Sorry, folks.