The Bum’s Rush #13

Aw yeah, Lucky 13 boys and girls! Hard to believe I’ve been able to retain my attention span long enough to do 13 weeks worth of articles. Still, I soldier on. Never give up, blah, blah, blah.

This past weekend one of the biggest events in the comic book industry took place, the San Diego Comic-Con International. The Comic-Con is a four-day pop-culture extravaganza that is held each and every year and is always guaranteed to be a treasure chest of cool and exciting news relating to upcoming comics, movies and more. I’m sad to say that I was unable to attend this year (next year for sure!) but I was glued to the comic news sites anxiously awaiting all the news and announcements. Herein I’ve compiled all the news that interested me and will hopefully interest you.

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• Todd Dezago and Craig Rousseau’s The Perhapanauts will be published as a mini-series from Dark Horse. I am a HUGE fan of Rousseau and I’ve been waiting for a while to see if this series would get picked up.
• Darwyn Cooke, the man, the myth, will be writing and illustrating an ongoing Spirit series for DC based on comics legend Will Eisner’s most famous character. Apparently the book was in the works and given Eisner’s go-ahead not long before he passed away. I’m really looking forward to this one.
• Just prior to the Spirit ongoing series there will be a Spirit/Batman crossover written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by Cooke and J. Bone.
• Another of Robert E. Howard’s (Conan, Solomon Kane) creations will be coming to the big screen. Peter Berg (Very Bad Things, The Rundown) will direct Bran Mak Morn, the story of the last king of the Picts fighting against the rule of Rome in Britain.
• Peter David (Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman, Fallen Angel) will be writing a new X-Factor comic for Marvel, which spins out of his fantastic Madrox mini-series. The bad news is Pablo Raimondi, the artist on Madrox, won’t be returning for this book. The good news is artist extraordinaire
  Ryan Sook (Arkham Asylum, Seven Soldiers’ Zatanna) will be doing the art. Very nice.
• Will Pfeifer (Catwoman, Finals) and Giuseppe Camuncoli (Intimates) are working on Captain Atom: Armageddon for Wildstorm. Looking forward to this, mostly because of the creators, though I suppose this means that Camuncoli must definitely be off of Intimates. Sigh.
• Novelist Charlie Huston (Six Bad Things, Caught Stealing, Already Dead) and artist David Finch (New Avengers) have been announced as the creative team for Marvel’s long-awaited Moon Knight series.
• Mark Waid has signed an exclusive with DC. Like Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns, Waid will have a large role in the creative development of the Post-Infinite Crisis DC Universe. He’ll also be launching a new The Brave and The Bold series, a book he describes as a “your travelogue of the new DC Universe.”
• I was pleasantly surprised to read that Robert Kirkman’s creator-owned Image Comics character Invincible will meet Spiderman in the Kirkman written Marvel Team Up #14. I was even more pleased to find out that original Invincible artist Cory Walker will illustrate the issue.
• Frank Cho will be drawing a few issues of New Avengers. Not surprisingly the story he is to draw will focus on Spider-Woman. Ah, boobies.
• Paul Pope’s (THB, Heavy Liquid, 100%) new project is finally here! Batman: Year 100, a 200-page, four-part mini-series. And man, does it look awesome. I can’t wait.
• Doug Mahnke (Batman, Seven Soldiers’ Frankenstein) is everywhere! Now he’s going to be drawing a Team Zero (a prequel of sorts to Wildstorm’s Team 7) comic written by action comic guru Chuck Dixon.
• Brian Singer was at the Comic-Con to talk about Superman Returns and it sounds like it is in damn good hands. There were even reports (and I’m not lying) of people crying tears of joy after seeing some of the footage that Singer brought with him. Ha ha, crazy nerds.
• All-Star Superman will be debuting in November!!!! (omg, tears of joy)
• Matt Wagner is finally getting to his Batman: Dark Moon Rising series that was announced over a year ago. The story will split into two connected mini-series called Batman: The Monster Men and Batman: The Mad Monk and will be a sort of sequel to Batman: Year One. After that Wagner will be working on new Grendel material!
• Word is that Marvel has announced something (or will, I’m not really sure, it’s all so very confusing) that will crack the Internet in half. The Internet will then travel to Asia looking for some sort of homeopathic cure while his unstable protégé will assume the mantle of Internet and probably start killing people. Poor, poor Internet.
• It seems (and I am only speculating based on things I have heard and read) that the JLA comic might be coming to an end. Maybe? I’m sure it won’t but you never know. Maybe they’ll relaunch the book and Wolverine can join the team? Yay, New JLA!
• I just started a brand-new webcomic called Der Wundervolle Bean so go check it out. I wonder why no one mentioned that at Comic-Con?

Not quite as much HUGE news as I was expecting. Certainly not as much gossip-worthy material as years past. It seems there was a lot more movie news going on. Comic-Con is certainly becoming a huge mecca for multimedia promotion. Anyway, I’m sure there’ll be much more big new coming in about a month or so when Wizard World Chicago 2005 hits.

See ya next week!

NEXT WEEK: Probably something about comics, right?

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