Just like the girl in the above panel from SWAMP THING, the New DC Universe is beginning to BRANCH OUT (haw haw) and get ENTANGLED (hee hee) in the vines of….continuity and crossovers! This according to hints and forebodings from EIC Bob Harras:
More Previews fallout: Marz off VOODOO
11/17/2011 by Leave a Comment
Poring over the February solicitations this week has revealed several bits of news. For instance, the Old New 52 gang is breaking up some more as Ron Marz is no longer writing VOODOO, to be replaced by Josh Williamson. Although VOODOO’s cameltoe-tastic art by Sami Basri had drawn criticism, most observers agreed that for a story about a stripper who is really an alien, Marz had done a decent job. However, editors wanted a different take, even though editor Rex Ogle was leaving to take a job at Scholastic, as Marz told Newsarama.
DC announces New 52 collection plans — UPDATED
11/10/2011 by Leave a Comment
Over on their blog, DC has announced the rollout for the New 52 collections. Instead of dumping 52 trades in one month, they will be staggered from May-November, with 7 or 8 books released a month. Justice League, Batman, Green Lantern, Detective, Batman & Robin, Batgirl, Batwoman, Batman: The Dark Knight, Aquaman, Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Action, Superman and Flash are all getting hardcovers; the rest get TPBs.
Missing from the list: Wonder Woman.
New 52: The Legion of Superheroes Trailer
09/01/2011 by Leave a Comment
It’s the daily DC 52 trailer, this time for LEGION OF SUPERHEROES by Paul Levitz and Francis Portela.
Surely you all know the name of the music, right? And you got the hidden in-joke, right?
Marv Wolfman: The man who invented the Crisis
09/01/2011 by Leave a Comment
Here is a Village Voice interview with Marv Wolfman,
which is interesting for many reasons. Because Wolfman is always a thoughtful commenter on the comics industry and its may pressures, but also because CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS –and NEW TEEN TITANS by the same Wolfman/Perez team — is to the New 52 generation what Fantastic Four #1 (the 1961 one) was to so many before it. With its sweeping changes, dramatic deaths and multiple universes, it set the stage for many a crisis to come. And, famously, there was talk after CoIE of doing a line-wide issue #1 reboot. The idea lay dormant until now. But Wolfman points out that for an event to be an event it should have actual motivation:
Review: FLASHPOINT #5 and JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 (spoilers)
08/31/2011 by Leave a Comment
Before I go any further, these comics are not aimed at me…nor should they be. I am a long lapsed superhero reader, but surely not the kind that the DCnÜ wants to entice into reading their comics. So accept this as just one review out of 8264 that will be posted today and tomorrow. AND YEAH. SPOILERS. so don’t read until you’ve read the comics in question.
New Yorkers: Hurry over to Manhattan Comics to see Lee and Johns
08/31/2011 by Leave a Comment
If you couldn’t stay up late enough for midnight madness last night, Jim Lee and Geoff Johns will be at Manhattan Comics on 10 E. 23rd St., between Broadway and Madison sometime between 11 and 1 pm today to sign. They will only be there for about 30 minutes. Everything in the store, except new books is 52 percent off today only, so it’s also a good chance to grab some other loot.
No pizza will be served, unfortunately.
New 52 news and link roundup
08/31/2011 by Leave a Comment
Oh boy, good thing the week before Labor Day is always a quiet week in comic-book land! We managed to scrape together some news items.
It’s official: JL(A) #1 sold out
08/31/2011 by Leave a Comment
Confirming rumors, it’s been announced that Justice League has indeed sold out. Nikki Finke gets the scoop:
DC 52: Men of the hour
08/30/2011 by Leave a Comment
We might be stuck at the Portland Airport and unable to partake in the festivities, but Midtown Comics is ground zero for New 52 hoopla as Jim Lee and Geoff Johns promote the hell out of FLASHPOINT #5 and JLA #1 with the Midnight Madness event. Jim Lee’s busy day began with a redeye flight (he slept the whole way) and included 10 hours if interviews followed by …. a media event. The schedule has been matched by Johns, minus the redeye. Here’s the dynamic DC duo on ABC News, talking relaunchboot.
DC 52: The Grifter trailer
08/30/2011 by Leave a Comment
And here’s one more trailer courtesy of David Macho — this time for THE GRIFTER #1 by Nathan Edmondson and Cafu.
More New 52 trailers: STATIC SHOCK
08/30/2011 by Leave a Comment
Continuing the trend of artist-made promotional materials, STATIC SHOCK artist Scott McDaniel has also made a trailer for the book, which goes on sale on 9/7.
DC New 52: It’s showtime!
08/30/2011 by Leave a Comment
Over at the Source blog, DC’s braintrust shared their hopes for the relaunch hitting tonight. Including
Dan DiDio:
New 52: Stormwatch gets a trailer
08/29/2011 by Leave a Comment
Spanish comics enabler David Macho has been doing a great job of promoting the DC relaunch comics his stable of artists is involved with, last week via tons of preview art. This week he’s doing somethign even more ambitious — trailers! And not motion comics trailers, either. Here’s the one for STORMWATCH by Paul Cornell and Miguel Sepúlveda.
DC’s Midnight Madness events
08/18/2011 by Leave a Comment
DC has posted a list of events for the launch of the New 52, including Midnight Madness at Midtown Comics which will feature Jim Lee and Geoff Johns signings JLA #1. Sounds like quite the hootnanny.
DC Comics trailer for The New 52 debuts
08/16/2011 by Leave a Comment
DC has been promising a HUGE marketing campaign for the New 52 launching in just a few trembling weeks. And now the first ad is online, but not embeddable yet. (Drat.) HEro Complex is showing a 30-second version which will be shown in movie theaters as part of National CineMedia’s “FirstLook” ad block — you know, in between the ads for Fanta and something starring Ashton Kitcher.
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