On his LiveJournal, Wisdom/Dr. Who writer Paul Cornell responds to the news that he’ll be taking over Excalibur:
I’m very pleased to say that, as announced by Marvel Comics head honcho Joe Quesada announced yesterday at the Wizard World convention in Chicago, I’m going to be the new writer on the ongoing series Excalibur. For those of you who don’t follow comics, this is the monthly adventures of (basically) the British branch of the X-Men. And that’s all I’m going to say about the content (or anything else, really) for now. It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with editor Nick Lowe on my Wisdom mini-series, and I’m looking forward to that relationship continuing on this new book. This is something I’ve always wanted to do, the one big current comic book I really wanted, and I’ve got many, many plans. If you haven’t given super hero comics a go for a long time, or ever, I hope I might have a go at luring you to do so.
I’m planning to blog at greater length about all sorts of things tomorrow (having had three huge and splended meetings in the last two days), but tonight I just wanted to leap up and down and whoop a lot about this. Current mood: ecstatic!
Lucas Siegal was on hand for the announcement; read his thorough panel report over on the main site.
