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It’s all well and good talking about films and television shows, but when you think about a show with the word ‘Comic’ in it, you do expect some news on that front. And fans were given some bombshells. |
Most of them came from DC Comics. DiDio announced in the DC Universe panel that they had aquired the rights to not just the Milestone characters but to the Archie superheroes. Both are going to be a part of the bigger DC universe with the Archie heroes set to be apart of J. Michael Straczynski’s Brave and the Bold series.
At DC’s first Nation panel, it was revealed that film director Kevin Smith was to write a new Batman comic which, surprisingly to those in the panel, has already had one script completed.
At DC’s second Nation panel, it was announced that after ‘Batman R.I.P’ comic legend Neil Gaiman was set to write the main Batman title.
Other announcements that came from DC included ‘Flash: Rebirth‘ being written by Geoff Johns after Barry Allen returns to the DC Universe. And there were more discussions about ‘New Krypton’, the new Superman crossover in which hundreds of thousands of Kryponians happen to land on Earth and think it’s their new home. This will be in ‘Action Comics’, written by Johns, ‘Superman’ written by James Robinson and ‘Supergirl’ written by Sterling Gates. There was, of course, a panel based on an event happening right now, Final Crisis.
Marvel had panels dedicated to Secret Invasion and the Ultimate Universe with the latter announcing that controversial writer Mark Millar is set to return. Marvel’s next big event ‘War of Kings‘ also got a mention in which many of Marvel’s outer space characters such as Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy were going to take a very big part of.
It wasn’t only Marvel and DC at the ‘Con. Top Cow and Dark Horse had panels to run down their newest titles but the biggest news came from Image Comics. Image founders Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, Rob Liefeld, Whilce Portacio, and Todd McFarlane along with new partner Robert Kirkman arer working on a new six part mini series called ‘Image United‘ in which all major Image characters would come together and, get this, every character will be drawn by each respective founder so Spawn would be handled by McFarlane etc. Even if they reunited together last year, I doubt anyone saw this coming.
A highlight of the ‘Con was the first time meeting of two very different yet prolific comic book minds. Even though Stan Lee and Grant Morrison were covering a new Virgin Comics brand, it was still enough for most to see two legends of the industry under one roof discussing issues reciding in the wacky world of comic books.
Along with the Final Crisis stuff, Grant Morrison made another appearence doing a panel with My Chemical Romance frontman and creator of the highly successful Umbrella Academy Gerard Way.
There were other panels for Alien & Predator’s return to comics, Star Trek, Ghostbusters and IDW’s GI Joe/Transformers panel.
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