The second arc of Dan Jurgens and Aaron Lopresti’s Justice League International is now well and truly underway, with three major new villains stepping forward this issue and making themselves, their powers and a bit of their agenda known. Meanwhile, Booster Gold is struggling to keep things from falling apart, with members in the hospital, new members joining willy-nilly and a team that has far more determination than they do direction.Dan Jurgens joined us as always to talk about the issue, and while he was a little more evasive than usual, he did drop hints about what’s next–and name names as far as a villain we still haven’t seen come into play yet on the page.Russ Burlingame: There’s an interesting opening sequence between Batwing and Vixen. In establishing a past relationship between these two characters, did you have to run it by the Bat-office to make sure that nobody was stepping on David’s timeline?Dan Jurgens: Of course. As Mike Marts edits both Batwing and Justice League International, it was easily done. I’m happy we could make it work and I think it’s cool to have a previous connection between David and Mari.Women and minorities have a hard time supporting their own books, and there’s always the rumor of a “wave three” around the corner, theoretically replete with its own spate of cancellations. Does it ever feel like putting a character like Batwing on a team book can hurt his title as much as it can help it?I can’t say that I think this would hurt Batwing’s title in any way. We’ll do whatever we can to be true to the character and book.Wow! It’s been a while since we had the old “Booster Gold’s suit is out of batteries” problem. I kinda thought it had gone the way of Green Lantern’s 24-hour charge.Not quite. It’s still make of a fiberweave circuitry that depends on a power supply.
