Comic writer Brian Michael Bendis took to the stage at New York Comic-Con to share a first look at his new curated DC imprint. Wonder Comics will be a teen-focused line of comics kicking off with four new titles: Young Justice, Wonder Twins , Naomi, and Dial H For Hero, each of which will focus on a different corner of the the DCU's young adult superhero community.

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"When I first met with [DC co-publisher] Dan DiDio and we were talking about my work with DC, he went, 'You know, we've really been having a lot of luck with this pop-up imprint stuff, it's a really unique way for creators to really dig in and laser focus a message to readers.' So I looked at Young Animal and a very early version of the Sandman Universe and tried to think of what that would look like," Bendis explained while sitting down with IGN at the show. "[...] and then I realized, I knew what I was already missing since I was just wrapping up my final issue with Miles Morales, that I could look at the message of the Ultimate line."Bendis was eager to draw comparisons to his work on the Ultimate books back at Marvel, but stressed that Wonder Comics was not a literal transcription of the line from Marvel to DC. Wonder Comics will be in DC continuity, pulling from corners of DC's lore and mythology in brand new ways -- while simultaneously introducing new pieces to the puzzle, it's the DNA of the projects that resonate so well with one another."I've been on a year-long deep dive re-read of things in DC history. I'm so excited to pull genuine gold out of the history of DC Comics and present them like this -- that's really what the Ultimate line was, in its initial inception," Bendis said.Young Justice, written by Bendis alongside artist Pat Gleason, will reunite Tim Drake, Conner Kent and Bart Allen, a trio of heroic best friends who haven't appeared on a team together since DC's 2011 New 52 relaunch. It's a reunion that has been, according to Bendis, in the works for quite some time -- especially the long-awaited return of Conner Kent, who has yet to be revealed in the post-Rebirth DCU."Everybody knew about Conner, everybody was working towards finding ways to show those connective tissues. It's all been connected. We've all been working to tease out the logistics of bringing him back," Bendis explained. "We find him in the most surprising place you could find him and I got to write my favorite line of dialogue ever. Bart sees him and says, 'Oh my god, Conner, how are you here? How did you grow a beard?'"And yes, before speculation starts ramping up, "they're all the characters from main continuity," Bendis laughed. "These are main continuity, from-the-other-books characters. Main universe, main timeline characters." As for the current Superboy, Jon Kent? Don't panic. Conner won't be superseding Jon in anyway, Bendis assured. "Jon's story is unfolding in Superman and will be coming back in Superman #6 with a lot to work with. His story is a big one."Bendis went on to tease the return of Gem World and the character Amethyst as well as two new characters: Jinny Hex, the great-great-great granddaughter of Jonah Hex who knows nothing about her distant relative and "Teen Lantern," a Bolivian hacker who has been secretly accessing the main Green Lantern power battery.Naomi, co-written by Bendis and David Walker with art by Jamal Campbell will feature a new protagonist created just for Wonder Comics."Naomi is a young African American girl in the Pacific Northwest. She's adopted, she's the only person who looks like her in her tiny town and one day, Superman and Mongol crash there for a split second during the middle of a fight," Bendis teased. "It's a little blip in the bigger scheme of things for either of them but his appearance there will inspire Naomi to look into her own adoption -- and the result of her looking will bring about something the DC Universe has never seen before."Dial H For Hero by Sam Humphries and Joe Quinones was a natural pick for the line, as Bendis explained."It's my favorite DC idea maybe in the history of DC ideas," he laughed. "I love Dial H For Hero so much. So when I pitched the idea to Sam Humphries he was like, 'Yeah, yeah, this is about something, this is about our world -- but I want an actual dial. I don't want like 'Dial App For Hero' I want an actual dial tone.' So that's what we did. It's an actual dial in the story."The final book in the Wonder Comics opening salvo will be Wonder Twins by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne, which Bendis believes will be a "must read book." Bendis credited Russell's unique style and work on books like The Flinstones as major reason he was approached for the project."We sold the idea to him by looking at the fact that the Wonder Twins have a psychic connection to one another -- they're a teenage boy and a teenage girl, a brother and sister, who are always in each other's heads. Can you imagine always having a psychic connection to your teenage brother?!"Wonder Comics kicks off with its first two books, Young Justice and Naomi, in January of 2019.