Suicide Squad #6 will be getting a second printing as the entire first run has been sold out. This was not a shock to your author as I had already written off this series because I didn’t like the characters or the writing, but even so I bought a copy of this issue. The reason: they were delving into Harley Quinn’s origin story
Coming after the Justice League Dark and I, Vampire crossover in issues seven and eight, the ninth issue of Justice League Dark will be the first written by the series new ongoing writer: Jeff Lemire (Animal Man, Sweet Tooth).
Lemire’s new Justice League Dark team will consist of the fan-favorite DC and Vertigo character Black Orchid. Judging by the synopsis of the issue, the team will be facing off against the sorcerer Felix Faust.
Starting in May 2012 Garflied is going to have an ongoing series with Kaboom, which is where Boom Studios producers their kid comic books. Garfield is not newcomer to comic books because Garfield had first made his start in the 1970’s in comic book strips. Garfield is a lazy, over weight, self centered cat whose favorite meal is lasagna.
The writer of the current Garfield Show on Cartoon Network, Mark Evanier, will be on board as the writer for the series. Mark will team up with Gary Barker, who is a Garfield strip cartoonist. So, this series will be in great hands for all of the Garfield fans out there.
Travel Foreman, the acclaimed comic book artist of the popular DC title Animal Man, was recently taken off of the Animal Man title to work on another DC Comics title: Birds of Prey.
Animal Man was a well-received series loved by many fans for Foreman’s art, and surprisingly Foreman announced on the Comic Book Resource forums that he chose to leave Animal Man and was neither asked nor forced to leave.
Announced in Marvel’s Next Big Thing Liveblog, Sam Humphries will be joining Jonathan Hickman as co-writer of Ultimate Comics Ultimates as part of a transition that will see him taking over the series as the primary writer.
“It’s exciting to be able to come into Marvel on a book like this. You’ve got Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk and all the heavy hitters, but with the leeway to throw them around in ways you can’t in the Marvel Universe,” Sam Humphries says about the opportunity.
On Saturday, 3 March 10 am (EST & PST) DC and Cartoon network will be premiering a new 1 hour programming block of DC animation. The first half hour will be filled by Green Lantern: The Animated series. This computer animated series focuses on Hal Jordan and other members of the Green Lantern Corps dealing with various dangers to the universe. The second half hour will be taken up by Young Justice Young Justice appears to be Teen Titans by another name because it consists of Robin, Aqualad, Kidflash, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis.
Surprising news this week. It was announced on DC’s blog The Source that there would be a new artist on the popular New 52 horror title Animal Man. Several other artists previously on a New 52 title will be reassigned to another New 52 title.
Artist Travel Foreman has been heavily praised for his artwork on Animal Man. This made it all the more shocking to fans when DC’s The Source announced Foreman would be moved to Birds of Prey where he will be drawing urban cities and a slew of Gotham’s most beautiful women, which include Batgirl, Black Canary, Katana, Starling and Poison Ivy. His story will have the Birds of Prey facing off against Talon and the Court of Owls previously portrayed in the popular Batman title in a new story arc entitled “Night of the Owls.” The arc will feature a cross-over with the bat-family.
Today it was announced that Smallville will have a comic book series to continue the story of where the television show left off last year on the series finale. It will show Clark Kent of Smallville try to get use to being Superman, but the series will also revolve around supporting characters like Chloe Sullivan, Oliver Queen, Lex Luthor, and Lois Lane. This will be very different from the characters from Dc comics and bring us the characters we know and love from Smallville.
The comic book will first come out on Dc Digital Comics and the release date of the first chapter in a digital format will be April 13th, 2012. But don’t worry for those of you that do not want to get a digital copy you can get a printed copy available May 16th , 2012. There will be 12 chapters for the first story arc for us to enjoy in this series.
Posting on his website, Scott McDaniel has responded to the comments made by John Rozum regarding the behind the scenes happenings of Static Shock and the reasons for that title’s failure. Rozum’s comments painted the picture that he had been marginalized as the series writer and much of the blame for Static Shock’s shortcoming fell on McDaniel and editor Harvey Richards. McDaniel has a different perspective on the matter and shares it in a lengthy post on his site.
“We found ourselves embroiled in petty arguments concerning dialogue. I thought his dialogue was overly wordy, passive and weak. He thought my dialogue was obtuse and clunky. Ahh, Crom, those were some days!
I am ashamed to admit to being provoked by the situation. I crafted most of the key characters, story points and conflicts, and he scribbles a few lines of dialogue. And along the way, he reminds me that he was the writer of the critically-acclaimed XOMBI series, as if I had forgotten his numerous previous reminders. It was maddening, for me and for him. I think at some point Harvey added a flak jacket to his expense report.“
Do you love the new Teen Titans being written by Scott Lobdell? Wish you had more pages for an even bigger story? Well, it looks like you’re getting your wish because this May Teen Titans will be getting an Annual. Annuals can play many parts in a series – it could be a supplemental story or a bunch of collected short stories. Teen Titans Annual #1 is going to kick off a cross-over event between Teen Titans, Superboy, and Legion Lost.
