KEITH GIFFEN ON REIGN IN HELL - NEWSARAMA

February 15th, 2008 | by admin |

Original Post here: Tales from the Longbox

KEITH GIFFEN ON REIGN IN HELL

by Vaneta Rogers
Keith Giffen’s doing it again.
When Marvel wanted to dust off and revive their cosmic characters, Giffen was handed the vastness of the cosmos and given the opportunity to use Marvel’s most obscure space characters for an epic story called Annihilation. The story was successful enough for the publisher that it spawned several other series and gave new life to characters rarely used before.
Now DC is giving Giffen a similar task, handing him any and all of their mystical characters – both the well-known magicians and the most obscure characters in the catalogue – and asking him to develop the vast world of magic in the epic mini-series Reign in Hell.
In a story that Giffen says will span eight issues, Reign in Hell will establish some of the ground rules for magic in the DCU while redefining what DC’s concept of Hell really is. Newsarama talked to Giffen about the series, which was officially announced this past weekend at the DC RRP meeting. And while Giffen is hoping to keep many of the surprises of the series to himself, he did tell us some of the characters who will show up and how he’s approaching their reappearance.