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The Bum’s Rush #16
Okay, okay, I know. This week’s
column was supposed to be me blubbering and crying about the
cancellation of one of my favorite comics, Breach. And I was
in the middle of writing it while keeping an eye on the news
coming out of the Wizard World Chicago Convention when I
realized that there was too much big news to ignore. So I’ll
blubber and cry and bitch and moan about Breach next week,
that’s a promise. Right now though there’s way too much
stuff coming out of the Con for just any old Quick Bits
feature, so I present to you …
Ultimate Quick Bits 3 – Wizard World Chicago Con Edition
- Grant Morrison and Jim Lee’s relaunch of Wildcats
has been confirmed. This will be one hell of a book.
- Grant Morrison will also be taking on a role at
Wildstorm similar to the one he has at DC. He will be in
somewhat of a creative/editorial position in regards to
all of the major series relaunches for Wildstorm.
- Jeph Loeb has just signed an exclusive contract with
Marvel where he’ll be working on something with …
- Joe Madureira! Joe Mad has been out of comics for
several years, working instead in the gaming industry.
No word yet on what Loeb and Madureira will be working
on, but I’m sure it will be a while before we see it.
- Loeb’s exclusivity with Marvel (which goes into
effect at the beginning of September) begs the question
– what will happen to the ongoing Supergirl series the
Loeb was slated to write for artist Ian Churchill. Loeb
assured that he would not leave a mess behind him, so I
assume that he will write the first several issues
before another writer takes over the series.
-
 Not surprisingly Ed Brubaker and Mike Lark have been
confirmed as the new creative team for Daredevil
following the departure of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex
Maleev next year. I may have been one of the few people
who was not at all impressed with the Bendis/Maleev run
on Daredevil and I’m really looking forward to
seeing what Brubaker and Lark (who previously worked
together on DC’s Gotham Central) will do.
- Bendis will be working on a Spider-Woman
origin mini-series with the Luna Bros. (Ultra and
Girls from Image Comics), which will lead into a
Spider-Woman ongoing by Bendis and his
Daredevil collaborator Alex Maleev.
- Saw cover art for Marvel’s X-Factor (written
by Peter David with art by Ryan Sook) and I’m thinking
this might end up being a new favorite for me. (Click
on top image to enlarge in a new window)
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Likewise
the cover art for Nextwave has me looking forward
to the Warren Ellis/Stuart Immonen book quite a bit.
Still an awful name though. (Click on lower image to
enlarge in a new window)
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 Michael Turner will be doing a number of covers for
Marvel as well as six-issues worth of interiors for the
company somewhere around 2007.
- Leinil Yu, who has been working at DC for the past
several years, has just signed an exclusive contract
with Marvel Comics. One of the first projects the artist
will tackle is an Ultimate Hulk vs. Ultimate
Wolverine book with a writer still to be announced.
- DC announced a brand new Sandman Mystery Theatre
mini-series from Vertigo in 2006. The five issue series,
titled Sleep Of Reason, will be written by John
Ney Reiber with art by Eric Nguyen and will feature a
new character donning Wesley Dodds’ gas mask to face
terrors in the Middle East (which, dammit, is really
similar to a Sandman series I wanted to pitch. But hey,
what the hell right? I’ve yet to get any comic work
published at all.)
- DC is hoping to price their new weekly series 52
(no word on whether that title is permanent or not)
relatively low, with Dan DiDio suggesting that a $0.99
price tag would be a good idea. 52 is a series
spinning out of the upcoming Infinite Crisis
mini-series that will fill in the year long gap between
Infinite Crisis and the “One Year Later” story
that will cross over all the DC titles.
- The Ultimates will have a Vol. III
following the wrap up of Vol. II by writer Mark
Millar and artist Bryan Hitch, but with a new creative
team. Some rumors floating around the convention
speculated that Jeph Loeb and Joe Madureira might be
that new creative team. Makes sense, Bryan Hitch is a
slow artist so why not replace him with an even slower
one?
- Gail Simone and Talent Caldwell will be the creative
team behind the launch of a brand-new Gen 13
series.
- Ale Garza’s new book is called Skye Runner,
which will be part of a new fantasy line at Wildstorm
called “Storm & Sorcery”. The book will take place in
the same world as Garza’s previous mini-series Ninja
Boy.
- Considering Giuseppe Camuncoli is working on the new
Captain Atom: Armageddon series it’s not a real
surprise to hear that his last book The Intimates,
with writer Joe Casey, will be ending with issue #12.
Fortunately Ale Garza will be handling art chores as the
book ends, so while it certainly sucks to see yet
another favorite book get the axe at least it’ll look
really pretty going out.
- Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco should return to
Arrowsmith late next year.
- Look like Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s
Planetary may be wrapping up early next year. Of
course I’ll believe that when I see it.
- Ha-ha, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred will return to
X-Statix with a Dead Girl mini-series.
That was kind of unexpected but great news.
- This wasn’t announced at Chicago but I heard that
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are hoping to team up
for a sequel to Daredevil. Glee!
- When Kevin Smith showed up at the Marvel Knights
panel to announce he had finished writing
Spiderman/Black Cat (mentioned in last week’s Quick
Bits) he received some applause from the audience.
Respectfully, Smith declined the applause and
acknowledged that he didn’t deserve any congratulations
and shouldn’t be celebrated after he “lowered the bar.”
Okay, he got some points for that one. At least he
admitted that he screwed up.
- After a slate of one-shots Danger Girl will
return in November with a four issue series titled
Back In Black which series co-creator Andy Hartnell,
joined by Nick Bradshaw on art, will write. The series’
other co-creator J. Scott Campbell will provide covers.
NEXT WEEK: Back to our regularly scheduled
programming where I plan to blubber and cry about Breach
(and maybe even The Intimates) being cancelled.
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