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Wondercon is taking place this weekend.

Its a comic book convention in San Francisco, in case you were wondering.

No, I'm not there. Maybe I'd like to be, but no.

Generally speaking, Wondercon doesn't get a lot of huge announcements from Marvel and DC. Those are being saved for what I would think are considered the Big Three of the Cons - The New York Comic Con, The San Diego International Comic Con, and Wizard World Chicago. New York is in April, Chicago is in June, and San Diego is in July.

(On a side note, Wizard World Chicago is usually in August. Traditionally, it has been the show that the biggest announcements in comics are made. With it taking place now a month before Comic Con International, I expect that to change. I would guess that San Diego can now be expected to make some really major announcements. Good news for me, since I hope to be there!)

Where was I? Oh, yeah - usually, there aren't huge announcements made by the Big Two of the comic book industry at Wondercon. Teases? Sure, but straight out answers? Not so much.

And, thus far, the news flowing out of Wondercon is pretty much par for course this year. There was one huge thing that I heard, though. DC is planning a Who's Who update.

For those of you who don't know, Who's Who in the DC Universe was a 26 issue set of biographies of the characters that were released in 1985.

It was followed up with updates in 1987 and 1989, spun off to a Star Trek comic Who's Who, and a Legion of Superheroes Who's Who later. A final update was created in the 1990's, but was made up of packs of loose leaf pages and binders, as opposed to comic book form.

And, that was it.

I love these, though. Well, the comic book versions, anyway. I never got into the binders. They are just entries with an image of the character, telling their powers, personal information, and history. So simple, but so much fun.

As a matter of fact, I'm getting ready to send off a set of these comics to a book binder so I can have them conveniently in hand like an encyclopedia.

As I said, though, they haven't had an update in almost 20 years! As much fun as my originals and updates are, they are hopelessly out of date. Characters have died, resurrected, and died again since then! Other superheroes are completely different people now!

I NEED AN UPDATE!

At Wondercon, a fan asked straight out about a Who's Who update, and was greeted with a plain "Yes" as an answer.

Woo hoo!

Of course, with my luck, it'll probably be in loose leaf form. Still, I'd take that at this point.

No word as to when these can be expected, but I would guess it will probably be shortly after then next huge event in DC, Final Crisis. That way, they can be billed as a roadmap of sorts for the new DCU.

I'll type at you later.