After several significant publishing announcements right out of the gate on Wednesday — among them, the Vertigo Crime imprint, Darwyn Cooke’s Parker adaptations and the BOOM! deal with Disney/Pixar — the first official day of Comic-Con seemed, well, subdued. At least as far as new projects go.
The biggest news on Thursday probably came from the “DC Nation” panel, where it was revealed that Kevin Smith will write a three-issue Batman miniseries called Cacophony, which features the villain Onomatopoeia from Smith’s 2000 run on Green Arrow. If you were planning some jokes about whether the miniseries will be late, or never finish, save them: Smith beat you to it.
And, surprising no one, Barry Allen will return in The Flash: Rebirth, by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver.
The “Mondo Marvel” panel introduced a handful of new titles, including an ongoing Agents of Atlas, Greg Pak and Leonardo Manco’s War Machine as a replacement for Iron Man: Director of SHIELD, the return of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon for a weekly Punisher: War Zone miniseries, and … an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Electric Ant” by David Mack, with covers by Paul Pope.
Yeah, that last one seemed to surprise, or puzzle, a lot of folks.
At the X-Men panel, the next big X-event was revealed: X Infernus, a sequel, of sorts, to 1989′s Inferno crossover.
Other convention-related announcements:
• Virgin Comics and Perspective Studios rolled out their collaboration with writer Grant Morrison, MBX. It’s an animation franchise based on the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata.
• Devil’s Due Publishing announced its new online initiative with Kevin Spacey’s talent-scouting website TriggerStreet.com.
• Wildstorm continued its licensing frenzy with a six-issue miniseries based on Electronic Arts’ upcoming video game Mirror’s Edge.
• And then there was the now-usual run of movie news: Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry and Radical Pictures adapting Radical Publishing’s Freedom Formula miniseries; Landscape Entertainment picking up the rights to the Image miniseries Pretty, Baby, Machine, by Clark Westerman and Kody Chamberlain; and Disney renewing its first-look deal with Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment.
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
That would be 1989, not 1999.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Ah so yet another X-Men! Should be interesting, something to look forward to. it looks like they’re going to dominate the next coming years
July 25th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
>>In the “Dark Horse Horror” panel, the publisher announced it will release an archives of Warren’s Eerie horror magazine, as well as a new Creepy black-and-white comic. The 48-page quarterly comic will debut next spring.<< Naw – they announced that at WonderCon this year. Damn tv and its shortening of people’s memories.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
@Tyrone: Yeah. Especially if Marvel caters to THAT kind of fanbase.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:55 am
The link for complete coverage isn’t working.
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