In the middle of Steve Bennett’s latest column for ICv2, he stumbles across comics gold:
DC, take a page from the recent Seven Soldiers of Victory series of mini-series and pick a bunch of older characters at random that need their trademarks renewed and produce some one-shots by some of today’s top talents (everyone under exclusive contract has to do one, no excuses). Off the top of my head there’s Mark Merlin & Prince Ra-Man (an odd couple pair of roommates/supernatural detectives), Anthro (the teen caveman saga reimagined as One Tree Hill where the characters have a license to be nearly naked) and Automan (a kid finds an old retro robot in his garage and they have adventures which at no time involve the government and/or a evil corporation trying to kill them).
I would completely read that Mark Merlin and Prince Ra-Man book. Do you hear me, Dan Didio? Do you hear me?!?
February 9th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I’d but it, too. Prince Ra-Man was one of the characters I’d pick out to create an eclectic team or someone who should get another shot when my best friend would stay over in elementary school and we talked comics.