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It's a bizarre place. When my non-comics reading friends ask me about it I tell them to imagine a small city forms inside of this very large building and all the world's most interesting characters show up in one-place and they're celebrating Halloween and New Years at the same time. That's Comic-Con.

Speaking of comics, are there any plans for a comic book series to run concurrent or otherwise?

Yeah, we are doing 22 online comics that run concurrent with the show. Everybody who's anybody is involved with it. Michael Turner. Koi Turnbull. I know Jim Lee's involved. I know Tim Sale's involved. They'll be written internally by us, people like Aron Coleite ("The Covenant"), Jeph Loeb and Bryan Fuller ("Dead Like Me," "Wonderfalls"). They're going to be spectacular.

I'm looking at the first one right now. They will be both ancillary material and sort of additive material to the show, not necessarily a retelling, but a kind of different direction into the stories. In other words, if you read them, you will sort of have greater knowledge and deeper knowledge into what you're seeing.

Often times we'll be telling a story from another side, through another character, or will give the missing beats of a story that weren't told in the show - a character gets to a certain place and in the show you jumped him passed four or five different story beats, but you can see how he got there in the comic.

Those artists you mentioned, these are all artists who are friends with Jeph Loeb. Is he the primary driving force behind these online comics?

Yes, absolutely. The truth of the matter is that Tim Sale was actually brought onto the show before Jeph, although I got to Tim through Jeph, because Jeph and I have been friends for many, many eyars. When I called Jeph to talk about this early on, we had several conversations while I was writing the pilot, and I wanted to do some artwork in the script as a sales device. Just hire somebody out of my own pocket to do a few pieces for the script. And I asked Jeph to see if he could recommend somebody. He got me in touch with Tim and that's how that started. So, you know whether it was Tim's involvement or Jeph's involvement, and the fact that the show got a lot of buzz at Comic-Con, we were sort of on everybody's radar when we approached people. But certainly Jeph's knowledge of the business and the people in it - we couldn't ask for more.

Are there any plans to publish these comics in the real world?

I hope so. I'm hoping there's not legal issues with that. I'm looking at color Xeroxes of these things and I don't see why they wouldn't.

Thanks a lot, Tim. Pleasure speaking with you today.

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Awesome! I wish they would publish the stupid website so that i can bookmark it though!