Joss Whedon

Sam Loeb wrote a short story in "Tales of the Vampires". Sam died after a 3 year battle with cancer. It was revealed in this weeks Wizard Magazine by Jeph Loeb (Sam’s father) that Sam was to be the writer for Superman/Batman #26, and had finished the plot and some of the dialogue. Jeph Loeb and others are going to pen the comic in Sam’s memory :

Joss Whedon
Geoff Johns
Allan Heinberg
Jim Lee
Michael Turner
Rob Liefeld
Tim Sale
Pat Lee
Ed McGuinness
Ian Churchill
Joyce Chin
Arthur Adams

Sam was a regular figure at conventions, accompanying his father at the DC booth and panels, and was a budding comics writer himself, having penned a six-page story in Dark Horse’s Tales of the Vampires #5 (illustrated by his father’s frequent collaborator, Tim Sale), a spin-off of its Buffy titles.