Greg Pak, mostly a Marvel writer, and Jae Lee are coming together for a new Batman/Superman book. This was announced over on USA Today here:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/
Interesting that this book is Batman/Superman and not Superman/Batman like the old version. And the first arc (at least, maybe more) is set in the past as discussed here:
Bruce Wayne is new to putting on a cape and cowl and patrolling the streets of Gotham City, while Superman — when not in civilian mode as budding journalist Clark Kent — is a recently realized hero to the working class clad in jeans, cape and a spiffy, S-logo T-shirt.
I like Lee's art. The only thing I read by Pak is World War Hulk which was something of a mess for me. I hear he is a great writer and heard good stuff about his Hercules run. So I will be trying this out.
The end of Superman Family Adventures was discussed with creators Franco and Art Baltazar here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=43886
One of the things I have felt about this book is that the creative team is trying to bring back some of the more classic elements of the Superman mythos. They had stories written through #40!
And here is an interesting quote:
So when we found out that #12 was going to be the last issue, I knew that I had three issues left to say what we wanted to say. It's everything that we wanted to happen in the Superman history."
I said it before. I will say it again. Lois and Clark will marry at the end of this issue!
CBR does a nice interview with Bryan Q. Miller who discusses his Smallville specials and expanding the Smallville universe to include more of the DCU. Here is the link:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=43904
This is more about the building of a community of heroes in "Season 11." We did our Batman arc, and we're in the middle of a Flash arc now. The next arc we have coming up will explore some stuff with Booster Gold who we met in Season 10, and we'll have a side story with Martian Manhunter and Batman. It's more about creating the entire world and fleshing that world as presented over the evolution of "Smallville" as a series than it is just being "Smallville: The Comic Book."
But there is more here including the 'evil' Chloe from Earth 2, some Legion hints, and more about the Martian Manhunter. I do like the Martian art above.
Another image from Supergirl from the upcoming Superman:Unbound movie has been released here:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/02/22/link-ink-superman-unbound-the-wolverine-cardboard-iron-man/
I cannot wait for this movie!!
And ... in a rare example of good taste ... DC has decided to drop the inane WTF promotion! Here is that link: http://www.newsarama.com/ comics/dc-drops-wtf-and-other- news.html
I applaud this decision. But I am surprised that the original decision to actually name this promotion WTF Certified was made to begin with. There needs to be a 'common sense' person in the rooms at the top of DC.
1 comment:
Hi,
Have you seen the new interview with the new Supergirl writer on Newsarama yet? It sounds a good bit more promising than what we've seen previously about this writer's plans for Supergirl.
Here's the address:
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/supergirl-michael-alan-nelson-interview.html
One can always hope.
Gerry Beritela
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