After a few seasons of big dark storylines, Supernatural is bringing back the monsters, executive producer Sera Gamble told fans at Comic-Con today.

"We got very epic, and we enjoyed getting very epic. We were excited that you kept watching and that we could actually do the apocalypse," Gamble said. "And then we were like, ‘We really want to shoot some monsters in the face.'"

Gamble said that the monsters will also become part of the wider story being told in season six, and not just be fillers in between deeper storylines. 

The start of the new season will pick up a year after the events of the season five finale, when Sam dragged himself (Lucifer's vessel) and half brother Adam (the angel Michael's vessel) into hell, but then somehow appeared on the street outside Dean's potential new normal family home.

Jared Padalecki has no idea how Sam gets out of hell, but thinks that divine intervention may be involved. "I think we probably have someone watching out for us," he said. We'll see a domesticated Dean, living a normal life, who is pulled back into hunting demons again.

Misha Collins said that Castiel will be on "clean up detail in heaven" after what happened last season, likening him to Yeltsin in a post-Soviet Russia. He also pitched his idea that Castiel should adopt a Russian accent this season to Gamble, while on the panel.

Jim Beaver gets some more screen time with Mark Sheppard as Crowley, but there'll be no more kissing to make deals with the demon. Jensen Ackles has directed episode four of the season, Weekend At Bobby's, which delves further into the deal and the repercussions.

Ackles introduced a clip of the episode before the panel started, and said that it was a real challenge to look at the script as a director, rather than an actor. That, and getting Jim Beaver to stand where he wanted him to.

Producer/writer Ben Edlund was asked what kind of dark twisted stories he has in store for the boys this season. And he mentioned something about an encounter with a fairy.

"I see a moment where the boys have to fight a tiny pinprick of light that ultimately is Tinkerbell. I see Jensen with a little light coming towards him and he just says, ‘It's so beautiful!' You can clap your hands in this story and believing won't help."

We could also see some fangs this season, if Ackles gets his way.

"I'm looking forward to killing some vampires properly this year," Ackles said. "There are a lot of vampires going on these days, and I'd just like to really show people how it's done properly. Not this pasty, waify shit out there right now."

How about fairies and vampires in the same episode? That, I think, would be awesome...