If a character you've never written before is appearing in your title, how do you make sure you get them right? Are there memos on each character to keep their personalities consistent across writers and titles? How do you keep histories straight with the

Usually, it’s editorial’s job to make sure you don’t mess up with previous appearances. We do the research we can, and editorial will often send us additional issues or books to figure out what we need to know about a character. Then OUR editor talks with THEIR editor.

It’s a good system, but I prefer to also talk with the writer of the other book, if the character is still appearing in one, and the character’s creator, if possible. So everyone is connected and okay with it.

We don’t have memos about individual characters. But if, say, there’s a crossover, there are usually shared documents going back and forth with the main writer of that crossover. Scott Snyder writes big, intricate backstories, they’re as cool to read as they are to write from.

Sometimes I will use a reader or another pro as a resource, if there’s a character I am shaky on. At this point, the New52 is so new that we usually only have to coordinate with one or two writers to get stuff right.

There was no backstory meeting or timeline meeting precisely, but there were a lot of documents early on nailing some things down. They wanted the timeline to be open to new ideas, which leads to some continuity conflicts but also prevents everyone from feeling too restricted.