We kicked off this week with an interview with the brains behind Citizen Press and the upcoming Johnny Repeat graphic novel, Jason and Elizabeth James. The James gang were kind enough to supply us with several copies of the book, which we’re giving away in our first contest. Deadline for entries is Wednesday, July 5, so go check it out!
Lisa Fortuner joined us this week with her new weekly feature, Amateur Art Appreciation, and several other posts, including a recent podcast interview with Gail Simone and the difference between comic book Storm and movie Storm.
Graeme highlighted the similarities in Marvel’s comic plots to what happens in their movies, a recent exchange between Comic Reporter Tom and Marvel’s Aubrey Sitterson, Tom Breevort’s thoughts on continuity, leaked info on a New Frontier animated DVD and Michael Netzer’s new website.
Tom took a look this week at the cover to JLA #2 and first issue of the new Flash series … “I suppose it could be worse: Bart could be the fake-out, and that idiot Griffin could be the new Flash…. ” Um, let’s not give anyone any ideas, Tom …
I had a lot more fun writing this week’s I ♥ Comics feature than what’s probably allowed.
And we ended the week with what has become one of the most popular posts in our short history, Kevin Melrose’s recap of how the Siegel/DC legal battle over Superboy is affecting the upcoming Legion of Super Heroes cartoon. Kevin also brought us news on the biggest comic book movie opening of the summer, comic numbers for May and the latest on the McFarlane/Tony Twist legal battle.
