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Thoughts on DC’s Re-Organization of the “New 52″
As you might have heard by now, DC made a pretty clear statement today about how they will be handling the “DC Universe” in the foreseeable future. Their ongoing comics appear to be limited to 52 ongoings at a time, so if they launch a new title, that means a current title has to come [...]
Thoughts on the Ending to Last Night’s Walking Dead Fall Finale…
Two roads diverged in a wood, and Walking Dead took the one less traveled by. SPOILERS for last night’s episode, “Pretty Much Dead Already” as well as for issues #1-91 of the Walking Dead comic book ahead!!
Thoughts on Ann Nocenti Taking Over Green Arrow
Wow, I don’t think ANYONE could have predicted THAT! Ann Nocenti is returning to monthly comics for the first time since the mid 1990s to take over Green Arrow from the interim writing team of Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens (who presumably chose to stick with Superman when that position opened up). Click the above [...]
Thoughts on the Super-Marriage Officially Being Erased
With the official word now confirming what we all knew was about a 99% certainty (I think I even went with 100% certainty at one point), that Clark Kent and Lois Lane’s marriage will be erased with the reboot, something I find myself thinking is, “Wait, they were married?” We are nearing the finish of [...]
Thoughts on Tim Drake’s Origin…
I was talking to my pal Jake the other day, and he was complaining about the relative treatment from online fans about Tim Drake and Damian Wayne. He noted that Tim Drake appears to be disproportionally popular on the internet, and he felt that Damian Wayne’s initial treatment of Tim (not to mention the fact [...]
Thoughts on Wizard Closing Down…
If you used to work for Wizard, and they fired you, I can see how you would enjoy some schadenfreude at the magazine announcing that they are closing down. That makes sense to me. Otherwise, why the heck would anyone else be happy about a magazine about comic books closing down and a bunch of [...]
Thoughts on the Fantastic Four Death…
I’ll eventually review the issue in question (I’m thinking of just doing a big ol’ review on Hickman’s whole run), but I just wanted to make a note about the death in today’s Fantastic Four #587 (don’t read any further if you don’t want to be spoiled about who dies in the issue)…
Couple Pieces of Housecleaning…
Here’s a couple of bits o’ business I figured here is as good a place to address as any. First off, commenter T. wanted me to link to this piece on Kerry Callen’s blog where he mixes the stories of DC during the 1960s (wacky weird stuff happening to the heroes) with the stories of [...]
Thoughts on the Latest Addition to Wizard’s Family of Comic Cons
Don MacPherson has an interesting editorial up about the news that Wizard has purchased another convention to add to the 10 cons they already had in their Wizard World family of conventions. Do you agree with Don’s reservations?
Thoughts on Jeff Parker Being the New Thunderbolts Writer
Boy, talk about being torn! Andy Diggle is doing fabulous work on Thunderbolts right now, so it’s a shame to see him go, but Jeff Parker is a very good comic book writer, as well, so I guess it is good news! It’s a BIT of a shame, though, to see Parker seemingly taking over [...]
Thoughts on Marvel’s Purchase of Marvelman
It’s rare to see a news story this big that has such a gaping hole in what most fans want to know about the story. Marvel now, apparently, owns the rights to Marvelman, after working out a deal with Mick Anglo, creator of Marvelman. That, in and of itself, is notable, of course. However, the [...]
Thoughts on TV Advertising of Comics
Don MacPherson has an interesting post looking at Radical Comics’ new comic book, Incarnate, which is written by Gene Simmons’ son, Nick, and was promoted on the Simmons family reality show, Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels, as well as on A&E’s website.
Thoughts on News Made Public on People’s Blogs/Twitter
The previous post reminded me of another thing I meant to talk about awhile ago. The internet is an awesome place for comic book creators to interact with their fans. It’s neat that they can share stuff with fans – their insight into the books they are making, news about their upcoming work, etc. However, [...]
Thoughts on Using Other People’s Twitter Posts
I see that using other people’s twitter posts has become a bit of an issue after Tom Brevoort noted that he was irked that a Blog@Newsarama post consisted of basically just a collection of C.B. Cebulski Twitter posts. Regarding Twitter, first off, Twitter is a collection of mini-blog posts. That’s really all it is. It’s [...]
Thoughts on Andy Diggle, Exclusivity and Timing
If you can find it (lord knows I’m not going to go through the effort to look for it), you’ll see discussions between me and various people back in late 2004/early 2005 about what Andy Diggle should do after his awesome Adam Strange mini-series was ruined by being forced to tie-in with an Infinite Crisis [...]
