If you weren't paying attention, you probably missed a lot of small, but important news, interviews or previews from this past week. I'm just going to go through a short 'link post' with general summaries of what to look for from those links. Yes, this is a lazy post that tries to cover the fact I had nothing else to really talk about today. Hit the jump for the full run down.First up, Guardians of the Galaxy was announced by Marvel with an exclusive cover preview over at IGN Comics. It features some spoilers on who survives Annihilation Conquest, but it's well worth checking out. The cover is absolutely gorgeous and the book will be done by the current Nova team of Abbnett and Lanning. Score.
Next on deck, again from IGN Comics, Secret Invasion covers and solicits, along with a brief interview, about the upcoming Skrull infestation. It reveals some of the
Warren Ellis took time out of his busy, and oh, so late, shipping schedule to put out a free webcomic called Freak Angels. The art is quite nice and the story, of what little was in the six page debut, was pretty interesting. From what I understand, this will be released online first and eventually put out in paper form. It'll be interesting to see how this affects the sales of the book and I could see a lot of future comics, especially indie ones, using this format. Much cheaper than a full print run that may or may not sell and it should generate a lot of press with a free online comic.
Newsarama, and I assume other sites, posted the DC solicits for May. Just a bunch of solicits, no big deal, right? Well, May just happens to be the month Final Crisis debuts and the cover that accompanies it is rather...odd for a major event. It features a beautiful Jones' pencilled Green Lantern cover and the entire cover is washed in the green radiating from his ring. It's not that I dislike Green Lantern. Quite the opposite, especially with how great his comic has been of late, but for DC to use GL as the poster boy for this major event's first cover over a Superman, Batman or JLA style cover speaks volumes and actually has me more interested in the event than I was before. It just screams this won't be the atypical DC event and that's a good thing.
Speaking of Final Crisis, my brother sent me a couple links to Funny Book Babylon, a comic book blog, that featured some very interesting articles concerning Grant Morrison that could shed some light on what he has planned for Final Crisis. The posts are about a month old, but still very well thought out and draw on a lot of past interviews and comments by Grant Morrison. If you're interested in a good read about Morrison or possibly some incites into FC, I recommend you check these links out.
Hits Off The Source, Part One: Kirby, Evil and the Invisibles
Hits Off The Source, Part Two: Hyper-Crimes in Hyper-Time with Superboyman-Prime
The new X-Force debuted this week and Comic Book Resources posted an entertaining read in the form of a commentary track with Yost & Kyle, the writers of the book. They walk us through each page of the book and if you read the book, I'm sure you'll enjoy this follow up with the creative team.
Not quite a news item, but over at mike's progressive ruin, mike posted a hilarious take on Aqualad from Teen Titans: Year One #2. It's technically from about a week ago, but still relevant, especially for any H.P. Lovecraft fans.
If comic book wallpapers are your thing, Nerd Rage Report has been posting a series of wallpapers over the past month. I'm actually using one of the Batman images as my current wallpaper. There are a couple of neat Hydra and SHIELD logo wallpapers as well that I downloaded for future reference.
Finally, Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker are teaming up again for a collaboration on a Daredevil arc. Not sure if I should be happy about this or not. I believe Brubaker's Gotham Central arcs were stronger than Rucka's, but I also think Brubaker has been faltering on Daredevil ever since his stunning first arc. It's still a great book, but maybe Rucka will be able to focus Bru's creative juices and keep the story on track.
As you can see, it was a busy week and I'm sure I missed some things. Hopefully something I list here enlightens someone that might have missed a random story or post around the comic world. Enjoy your weekend guys, I'm off to watch some hockey, eh.
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4 comments:
I posted those wallpapers for my daily updates while I had midterms, it was basically just a fill-in. Glad someone enjoyed it, though!
well, JG Jones is doing covers with a superhero per 7 covers. so expect superman to be the last issue
just wanted to let you know, I read an interview stating that each cover of Final Crisis will hae a single "top tier" person on the cover i.e. lantern, supes, batman, wonder woman, etc. Don't know who the other 3 will be but it is interesting how the first cover is lantern and not supes or batman like you said
Thanks for the link, on behalf of all of us at the NRR.
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