DC today finally announced who would be taking over as publisher as Paul Levitz old job was split in half with Diane Nelson taking over as president and now not one but five people will handle the publishing half. Officially Dan Didio and Jim Lee are the co publishers. Geoff Johns is the creative chief….
Here are a few more things to close out what was an interesting week. Brightest Reign DC is clearly betting heavily on the Blackest Night aftermath as the Brightest Day plans look quite a bit like what Marvel did with Dark Reign. Tony Bedard will take over writing Green Lantern Corps while Pete Tomasi is…
It has been one of those good weeks with a healthy dose of interesting new items. Jim Doom already covered the strange case of Captain America and the Teabaggers, so here are few other things. Brightest Day DC has already made it official that Aquaman will be alive and well for Brightest Day. Also the Brightest…
I’m not very good at doing proper reviews so I thought I would try just giving some brief comments on the various books I read from this past week’s releases. Scalped #34 This is the best thing I read from last week. I have a tendency now to let the arcs build up before I read…
Secret Avengers Along with the already annouced Bendis written Avengers series the other new book in the Avengers line will be called Secret Avengers and be written by Ed Brubaker with art by Mike Deodato. Return of Bruce Wayne DC has some of the covers to the upcoming the Return of Bruce Wayne series showing more…
Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool mentioned mentioned that Dan Didio is allegedly going forward with putting together various Watchmen related comics in the form of prequels and spinoffs. Paul Levitz, despite his issues with Alan Moore, had always protected Watchmen from these sorts of things. Now that Levitz has stepped down there is likely…
My good friend Marc Streeter just launched his webcomic this week over at actionmanadam.com. It centers around Adam a Canadian living in Christchurch New Zealand who is trying to find love. Adam is based off a real life person both Marc and I knew. The real life Adam was quite the character himself and unintentionally provided Marc…
Marvel has been playing a very strange game with the pricing of their comics. They want to push the $3.99 price tag as much as they can to milk what they can out of the direct market. The strange thing is some of the books like the recent Captain America books have been priced right…
Apple officially announced their tablet device today, the Ipad. Newsarama has a good write up on the technical specs of the device. This has of course lead to all sorts of chatter about what this means for comics. The common reaction has been that this will be the game changer and that comic shop owners…
DC today announced Justice League: Generation Lost as a 26 issues bi-weekly series. It is the same format as the Brightest Day series announced yesterday. Essnetially the two books with trade off each week. The surprising thing about Generation Lost is that it will feature the classic Justice League International team, comedy and all. It will be…