By the beard of Odin! Can this be true?!
Comixtreme has reported that Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski will be concluding his epic run of Thor in September, with Thor: Defining Moments Giant-Size #1.
This book was not in last week’s previews, but Comixtreme says that this new solicit — which will be in July’s issue of Previews — declares that Defining Moments will be Straczynski’s bow from the series.
This may signal a shift for Straczynski, who ended his exclusive contract with Marvel in February of 2008 to pursue some writing opportunities with DC Comics. Thor, while critically acclaimed by many, has also been a perennially late title, so a creative shift may put the book on a more frequent schedule.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hopefully they can find a writer that can keep this story going in the right direction. But yes i think a new one will definitely get this title back on time every month.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
So thirteen issues is now considered an “epic”? My, how our standards continue to decline.
Maybe now the book will revert back to $2.99 now that they’ll no longer have to pay JMS’s salary.
Yeah….right!
June 25th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Yeah, with all of the movie projects that he keeps stumbling into, I am surprised JMS waited this long to bow out.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Where’s coipel going?
June 25th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I hear he needs some free time to continue his passion for not finishing “The Twelve”.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Didn’t he say a couple of months ago that he might leave the book because there was a Siege of Asgard crossover event coming up?
Also, what’s the deal with these September books Marvel hasn’t solicited yet? It seems like they announced a few others over the weekend.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
If this is true, just give me Fraction, and I’ll be glad to continue buying this comic.
Peace.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:56 am
How many issuses will we get before the finale?
June 29th, 2009 at 11:23 am
And so, once again, Marvel torpedoes a book that was arguably the most critically acclaimed Marvel book on the shelves just to bleed out X number of additional sales for a mega-crossover event. This reminds me of when Peter David was doing a fantastic job on Aquaman before being dragged into the Millenial Giants crossover (UGH!). Also, I love the current Old Man Logan story-arc, but I find it hypocritical that Marvel is forcing JMS to submit his title to the big-event madness that is plaguing comic-dom while allowing Mark Millar to write at his own pace uninterrupted. Mind you, Old Man Logan (the best solo Wolverine story ever published) is well worth it, and any additional wait for that excruciatingly sparse publishing schedule would be agonizing, but Marvel should have given JMS similar leeway.