The Titans Tower Monitor reports that Judd Winick is being assigned to write another relaunch of the Titans starring a couple of the original members as we know them. Which may be their biggest mistake, as I notice that he seems to otherwise be the only writer they’re willing to assign to books like these. He may use a lighter tone on this new volume, as they say here, but that doesn’t mean it’ll
As this news clip from PennLive tells: Marvel releases new reprint for ‘Thor’
Because of the demand, Marvel announced the first three sold-out issues of “Thor” from the creative team of writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Olvier Coipel will be collected in “Thor 1-3: Rebirth.”
Rebirth features Thor’s return from the dead, the re-emergence of Asgard and his battle with Iron Man.The return
Now, as confirmed by Fabian Nicieza, Ra’s is coming back in the winter. But beyond that…there’s no garuntee that it’ll be worth it if the DCU is in as messed up a state as it is ever since Identity/Infinite Crisis.
Since this interview with Nicieza is about Nightwing, one has to wonder if they’re willing to reverse the damage done when they got rid of Bludhaven, Gotham’s sister city (suburb?).
Another blogger who’s understandably unhappy with the crossovers stemming from Countdown: There’s also Countdown #30, which I only bring up because we’re inching closer and closer to that magic issue #26, which promises to shake up the whole DCU. A lot of other DC issues are ruined this week dues to Countdown, however, like Detective Comics #837 and Supergirl #22, which are both purely
Although Joseph Szadkowski, the comics and games columnist for the Washington Times, let me down at least a year ago when he went out of his way to gloss over Identity Crisis, I suppose there is something to consider in this article he wrote about Grant Morrison’s Batman and Son story, which involves a son he had from his liason with Talia al-Ghul: Mr. Morrison takes readers on a scattered
Another article that deals with the readership growing older: TROY, N.Y. — It’s that time of the week again at Aquilonia Comics in Troy…delivery day. But when it comes to the readers, they aren’t your typical 12-year-olds waiting for that latest Superman comic. These days, they’re mostly adults.
Comic book reader Tim Colaneri said, “I grew up in the sixties and seventies reading comics and
Marvel makes more oh-so big announcements that Captain America is going to return in 2008, with what sounds like a new protagonist under the cowl. But first:
NEW YORK — You can’t keep a good American down.
Marvel Entertainment announced Thursday that its slain hero Captain America will rise again with a new outfit and a new secret identity, after the character was killed off in March by a
According to the Daily Galaxy, Stan Lee gave an interview to CBC radio, and is optimistic about the future of superheroes.
In a CBC radio interview with Q’s Jian Ghomeshi, Stan Lee, the one-man dynamo behind some of Marvel Comics’ greatest creations discussed the state of affairs in the comics industry. Lee, who is no longer affiliated with Marvel, is quite optimistic about the superhero genre
Comic Book Movie (via Newsarama blog) says that in the latest of Entertainment Weekly, it’s been reported that the script for the Justice League movie, if it’s being made, is going to be based on things surrounding Infinite Crisis. And as this description here says:
Batman - A.k.a. Bruce Wayne. The most human in the bunch is mistrustful of others, which leads to quite a few problems for the
Now here’s some awesome news: a copy of Batman’s debut in 1939 was found in an attic in Pennsylvania and sold to a collector:
A near-mint copy of Detective Comics No. 27, a pre-World War II comic featuring Batman’s debut, was recently found in an attic and sold to a local collector.
The comic is considered to be the second-most valuable available and can fetch up to $500,000. The only comic