It seems like forever ago that Darwyn Cooke announced he was leaving The Spirit to focus on creator-owned projects at the San Diego Comic-Con. In Baltimore this weekend, DC announced his replacement on the title, Sergio Aragones. Who will also be writing a new Bat Lash series for DC as well.
DC had plenty of other comic news — Billy Tucci doing Sgt. Rock, Chuck Dixon returning to Robin, Vigilante getting a new series. Even cooler is the fact that Jim Shooter, former editor in chief over at Marvel and the new writer of Legion, was on hand for signings and panels. He’s been out of circulation for awhile. ComicsDC, a Washington, D.C. based comic blog, even has pictures of him, along with a con report of their own.
Marvel had some stuff to talk about as well, including a new Young Avengers mini-series by various writers, including Ed Brubaker, and Secret Invasion, which is about the whole Elektra/skrull thing. But probably my favorite quote from Vaneta Roger’s Mondo Marvel panel report was this one:
What will happen to the Annihilation characters once Conquest is done? Will there be more of them? Brevoort: Nova has four issues that tie into Conquest, but after that, he’s “getting propelled to a whole new area of space that nobody else in the Marvel Universe has been to yet.” Brevoort said the character would find a Russian cosmonaut dog that was launched into space years ago with a “celestial head that has been turned into a city.”
How come nobody told me Grant Morrison was writing Nova?
Meanwhile, Image had a few announcements of their own, including an Atom Eve mini-series, based on the character from Invincible, and The Sinner by Steve Niles and Bill Sienkiewicz. Which I think was actually announced in San Diego, but I totally missed that one, so it’s new to me. And Jonathon Hickman’s got a new series coming out, Red Mass for Mars; CBR has an interview with him about it.
The Baltimore Comic Con is also the home of the Harvey Awards, and this weekend the main ‘rama site published the list of Harvey Award winners.
More links:
Baltimore Sun: Versatile artists a big draw at Comic-Con
SFist: Cartoonist Keith Knight wins Harvey Award
Warren Ellis clarifies Desolation Jones status
B. Clay Moore and Seth Peck on ‘76 from Image
Peter Tomasi to write Nightwing … and Green Lantern Corps.
Michael Broussard exclusive to Top Cow
September 10th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Grant Morrison isn’t writing Nova, but the series is a very nice read every month. Check it!
As for the Kubert award, why the hell are they giving one with bloody Hawkman?!? I spent years hearing about how Joe Kubert drew Hawkman and recently, being the total Joe Kubert zombie I am, I decided to buy the Hawkman Showcase. Guess what? Joe Kubert only drew half-dozen or so stories! Why the flick they talk so much about his puny Hawkman run when he did REAL long stints on serie like Sgt. Rock or Enemy Ace (incidentally, both WAY better than Hawkman ever was)? It’s just because Hawkman is a bloody super-hero?
That award should have a Rock or Enemy Ace cover. Joe Kubert should be remembered by his huge (and great) war comics work, not for a few forgettable super-hero stories starring a shameless Alex Raymond rip-off (note that Kubert wasn’t the Hawkman “creator”).
Joe Kubert is a living legend. He deserves more!
Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)
September 10th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Well, he did the Golden Age Hawkman too. Covers mostly, but he and Hawkman go way back.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
It was cool that he got a 10 or 15 minute standing ovation at the ceremony.