We had the pleasure of chatting with Eric Kripke the creator and executive producer of Supernatural at Comic Con '09. He talked with us about the 5th season, if there will be a 6th season, and the feedback he's gotten on the series from fans.

What does, "God has the left the building," mean?

Eric Kripke: God in the mythology of our show has gone missing. He's not in heaven. There is a bureaucracy of angels who don't necessarily have the most benevolent intent - who are running things in his absences. That's sort of why Zachariah and his ilk have jump-started the apocalypse. I think they just got impatient and there was no one telling them not to.

Did God go on a vision quest and he's just in the wilderness, or was there foul play?

Eric Kripke: I'm not going to reveal that, and the reason I'm not going to reveal is because - not in anytime of the first half of the season - but God will be a character in Supernatural this season. Which has lead to no end of hilarity in the writer's room of Supernatural trying to break God's motivation. We're like, "What would God do?" "What's his motivation in this scene?" We start laughing and say well Gossip Girl doesn't have these problems.

He will be a character. I'm not going to reveal how or where. He's not going to thread in anytime soon. This is the big season. We felt we couldn't bring on the devil without bringing on God too. It brings us no end to amusement that our little show has these characters, and is asking these kinds of questions. Hopefully, we don't bore everyone silly this season.

You said that you had a five-year plan for the show. This is going to be season five, so what are your plans?

Eric Kripke: The real answer is that we never dreamt it would go five years. At least I didn't. So yes, there was a five-year plan, and a five-year story. We are in the fifth year of that story. This is the last chapter of this volume. We plan on telling it well and climatically. We certainly are also batting around ideas, and there's no reason why there can't be another volume, and no reason a new epic story can't begin. We're not going to stretch this one out past its expiration date. We're not going to drag this one to a place it isn't. We're going to tell it the way it supposed to be told and it's going to end. Another story can begin. That's what we're preparing for, and well just see how the season goes.

You would be on-board for a new story?

Eric Kripke: I'm going to cross that bridge when I get to it. I am breaking episode six of the season. My head is so far away from season six that I honestly have no idea. I'm very interested in anything can happen. I need to see how this season goes first.