Does Bagley and Bendis have the magic left? Here are some preview pages of the first book creator owned book being published from Marvel’s ICON imprint. This marks the first book that Bendis and Bagley have worked on outside of the Ultimate universe. We’ll have to wait and see if it has the charisma the duo’s been known for in the past.
Another day and it looks like another comic book getting the possible movie treatment. The best part is that this vicious cycle will never end… and why should it? It looks like Paramount Pictures has acquired The Mighty, a graphic novel published by DC Comics. Slow down, I know what you’re thinking. “It’s a DC book and DC properties go through Warner Brothers.” Well not this time nerd, because it’s creator owned, so in this case the creators own the rights. Who are the creators? Why, Peter Tomasi (Brightest Day) and Keith Champagne (Armor X) of course.
Hey kids Valiant Comics is back! Hopefully this time around it works out for Valiant Comics. Valiant Entertainment, the company that purchased the rights to the Valiant Comics characters when Acclaim went bankrupt, is ready to resume publishing in 2012 in a major way thanks to an infusion of capital from Cuneo and Company, a firm headed by former Marvel CEO Peter Cuneo. Over the past few years Valiant Entertainment has published three collections of comics released by the original Valiant, a one-time publishing powerhouse during the “go-go comic book speculator-fueled boom” of the early 1990s. In 1994 the video game company Acclaim, which was also riding high at the time, purchased Valiant, but the comics market turned sour and Acclaim lost its video game mojo as well and went bankrupt in 2005.
Looking to take up even more shelf space, DC has announced they will have combo packs for their relaunched comics for $1 more than cover price. Meaning for $4.99 you’ll get the printed copy and a code to download the digital copy of the book as well. Otherwise both with sell for $3.99 seperately, with price of the digital copy dropping after about a month. This is actually a great incentive and shows retailers that they shouldn’t worry about digital books under cutting them on cost.
It’s over, Variety is reporting that case of who owns Superman is done and both parties seem to be walking away with something. So here’s the breakdown of what the Siegel’s and Shusters won and what DC managed to keep. Also it’s very interesting that this whole relaunch business is happening around the same time. Smart move on DC’s part to change up the entire Universe after losing part of the lawsuit.
DC just pulled out its big guns and announced a few of the titles spinning off from Justice League from Geoff Johns and Jim Lee. Notable books include Wonder Woman by 100 Bullets writer Brian Azzarello, Aquaman by Geoff Johns and Mister Terrific by Eric Wallace which I’m personally excited for. Really when you look at the list it’s every superstar they have in their talent pool. The real problem I see occurring, is that with so many superstars how long before they’re replaced on these books? Other than the writers, none of these artists have had a strong track record for sticking with a title for very long. And since this is there A-Team announcement, who will be on the other forty titles? Noticeably missing is Grant Morrison who is confirmed for Superman, Scott Snyder and Jock who are still somewhat confirmed for Batman, but what about Jeff Lemire?
Dark Horse Comics is extremely pleased to announce that Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) was awarded the highly coveted National Cartoonists Society (NCS) award this past weekend at the prestigious Reuben Awards Ceremony. She was presented this award in regards to her work in the Dark Horse comic Beasts of Burden!
