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CBR News: Adam, we touched on the possibility of a "Batman Beyond" ongoing last time we spoke about the miniseries, but now that the full story can be told, what was your first reaction when DC said the book had sold well enough to warrant an ongoing?
Adam Beechen: Obviously, I was really honored. We're very pleased with how well the book has done. It's a testament to the fans and how much they support the character and the book. We're delighted to keep going. We had some high hopes after the first issue came out and went to a second printing that there really was a market for the book. Sales have remained strong and people have remained interested in the story and the way we're telling it, so we're just psyched to keep it going. We have a lot of stories we want to tell.
Before we get into the new series, let's return to the big reveal fans saw in issue #4 of the mini when Dick Grayson unmasked himself as the "Hush" villain at the heart of the arc. What does that move mean for the conclusion of this story and for the way the world of "Batman Beyond" will be shaped now that this vital character from Batman's history has stepped into the book?
Well, there's two Dick Grayson's running around. There's the one who's adopted the identity of – or at least has been branded by the media as – Hush, and then there's the older Dick Grayson who had the falling out with Bruce Wayne. Either way, it's going to change the dynamic of the universe. One of them is obviously not the real Dick Grayson. One of them is a bad guy while the other is sort of a mystery character for now. I'd say the major change in this version of Batman Beyond is that we now know what happened to Dick Grayson, which was never explained in the animated series. It's his first appearance in the world of this series, and we'll have to see, based on the outcome of the miniseries, how he sticks around and the part he plays in the dynamic of Bruce and Terry and the whole world of "Batman Beyond."
I'm assuming the news of the ongoing reached you while you were still working on the mini. Did the idea that you'd carry on at all effect how you wrapped the story, or had it been crafted with more adventures in mind?
Actually, word of the continuation of the book didn't come until right when I was finishing the script for issue #6. It was very late in the process, and we already knew how we wanted to end the miniseries. Luckily, word of the ongoing coming didn't change anything, and we were able to continue on the path we had and then start fresh with "issue #7" which is now issue #1.
Last time, we talked about making the mini a series where the continuity of the modern Batman comics could sit right next to what had come in the animated series. Is that a thread you'll continue to develop in the ongoing?
My idea is to continue tying existing Batman continuity to what we're doing with "Batman Beyond" as much as we're able to do. I want to throw nuggets in that longtime Batman comic book readers will be familiar with while still respecting the future that's been created by the "Batman Beyond" animated series. It's a bit of a challenge to do that – trying to reconcile those two ideas – but it's also part of the fun of writing this book. We make sure that all the potential audiences get something out of it in order to turn it into one big audience.
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