sounds intriquing. love that cover.

Somehow I sense trouble looming with that tagline - “featuring women who have no trouble being both sexy and strong-willed”.

DC’s retrospective books are always classy. I don’t think they’ll delve into excessive cheesecake.

Interesting.

G. Fabs:

My point is that I lament the fact that Simonson’s writing is no longer in comics and that instead I get writers like Bendis. You like Bendis (as do many), while I enjoyed Powers for a period it soon began to chase its own tail. His Marvel work has been extremely successful, but it does not click with me. His Ultimate work is merely a giant What If project. That’s innovative? In a sense, yes. Was his run on Daredevil highly successful? You bet. But really, in five years, will anyone be asking for a return of Milla Donovan? I dare say that in a few years Daredevil will be sitting in quarter bins with Power Pack.

Sure “New Mutants” and “Power Pack” age poorly, but that’s one sliver of Simonson’s work. Consider the following (say it’s good or bad, but consider that these characters have had substantial impact on the company’s respective universes {I’d say long-term impact, but nothing has that impact any more–see death of Hawkeye for evidence}):
–Apocalypse was created by Louise Simonson and Jackson Guice
–Cable (created along with Liefeld) in the not so fresh New Mutants
–An 80+ issue run on Superman: Man of Steel where she was part of (yes, long forgotten and continuity revamped) Death of Superman
–Steel, a character she created with artist Jon Bogdanove [and yea he worked on Power Pack too])

So, to still not stay on topic, I really lament that while Walt Simonson is still quite active in the industry, his wife is not afforded the same opportunities (or so it seems, maybe she doesn’t WANT the grind of writing a monthly).

There are only so many Marvel and DC titles to write. And a great number of the same people are writing them. And a great number of them are men. Bendis is an easy high profile target, particularly since I don’t enjoy his writing (a subjective opinion that can easily be challenged by a majority of comic readers, I know). That being said, I’m not saying because Bendis is employed that means Simononson and Kesel cannot work. There’s no cause and effect to be found there.

Odds are we’re not gonna agree, but I really was irked to see Louise Simonson’s work boiled down to Power Pack and New Mutants by you, but I understand it was done in defense of my driveby shot at Bendis’ work.

Now back on topic, I agree with you, I look forward to seeing what the book is like.