Batman Beyond Universe’s Higgins and Gage On Rebooting the Future at DC

The first issue of Nightwing writer Kyle Higgins’s Batman Beyond hit the (digital) stands yesterday, kicking off a new era that will also see Bloodshot and the H.A.R.D. Corps co-writer Christos Gage stepping in on Justice League Beyond.That’s as big a shakeup as the Beyond universe has had since it was relaunched in 2010 as a digital-first anthology series.The pair joined ComicBook.com for an interview at San Diego Comic Con International last month, to discuss their future plans for the Beyond titles, Batman’s major status quo change and Superman’s first date after the death of Lois.ComicBook.com: What is on the horizon for your two books to start with?Christos Gage: Basically, we’re digital-first so on alternating weeks. One week will be a new chapter of Batman Beyond and the next week will be a new chapter of Justice League Beyond. Eventually they’ll be covered in print as Batman Beyond Universe.We’re keeping the continuity of what’s gone before. In his case, I’ll let him tell you more about it, but it’s jumping forward in time. Mine is too but it’s not really a big change. For him, it’s more like you’ll start reading his first chapter and go, “Whoa! What happened here?” I’m going for that effect with the last chapter of my first arc, so we’re sort of balancing each other out, which I think is fun.ComicBook.com: Well, and Kyle is doing a solo as opposed to a team book, so a time jump for a single character can seismically alter the book whereas for a team there’s kind of a level.