I have a hard time recommending books from Avatar Press to people.  They are like a small press version of Marvel where you get a number of really good things mixed with some really bad things.  On the positive side Avatar is the best place for Warren Ellis and Garth Ennis fans to find most…

A few days ago, Marvel announced a third Avengers book that they’ll be putting out when the Heroic Age starts in May. Just like they did with Avengers and Secret Avengers (well, sorta), Marvel is revealing the cast of New Avengers one at a time through promotional images. After first announcing Luke Cage (who’s suddenly…

Robot 6 has reported that the two Bendis written Avengers books will have backup features in each both written by Bendis.  This comes on the announcement that New Avengers will relaunch with a new number one issue titled New Avengers.  That’s right it’s the exact same name and clearly the usual ploy to try and inflate sales…

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…

When I saw this story break this afternoon, my first thought was “It took this long?” According to Fox News, the depiction of Teabaggers in the latest issue of Captain America has angered members of some Tea Party groups, proving yet again that we are in the midst America’s Most Sensitive Political Movement. Dave Wiegel…

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…