Magog #1Keith Giffen sat down with Newsarama to lay out his plans for the new Magog series that was announced yesterday.

With Howard Porter on pencils, Magog #1 will launch a series focusing on Lance Corporal David Reid, a former American soldier who was given mystic powers to save his life after being injured. Along with the new Magog, Giffen plans to round out the comic with a new group of supporting cast members and villains for the character.

It all fits with Giffen's mission to establish new characters in the DCU, an effort the writer emphasized when Newsarama recently talked to him about his new Doom Patrol series that starts in August. Giffen said he intends to infuse the DC Universe with new characters and concepts on "everything I touch from now on."

"I think that's critical in comics right now," he said. "The old communal well has been plundered to the point of depletion. Time to restock it."