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JMS exits Thor
Major Spoilers —
[image] J. Michael Straczynski has confirmed to CBR that he is indeed leaving Thor. I agonized over this for months, then finally — and I’m trying to remember when the email chain took place, but I think it was somewhere either just before or just after the first of the year — I went to the ever-patient and wonderful [editor] Warren Simons, and the equally patient, warm and fuzzy [Publisher] Dan Buckley, and said of the coming event, “I really, really hate this, because creatively I’m having the time of my life, but I think I need to let go of the book or risk screwing it up when we hit the Event.” It was an awful decision, not just because it’s a ...
J. Michael Estranged
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Writer J. Michael Straczynski confirmed and explained his exit from Marvel's Thor to Jeffrey Renaud at Comic Book Resources. Here’s the Top 5 things Straczynski explicitly does not say in the interview: He’s working on a Superman project for DC Comics. Neither Straczynski himself nor anyone else on the creative team is responsible for the delay between Thor issues. (This contradicts a recent comment made by Marvel editor Tom Brevoort.) He’s out of the loop at Marvel, even as far as the ending of his own run is concerned. Someone at ...
Seven Days | The week in comics
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
A look at the biggest, and most interesting, stories from the past week.
1. BOOM! Studios grab the license for Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse comics: The four-year-old publisher acquired the comic-book rights to the Disney characters previously held by the financially troubled Gemstone Publishing. Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories and Mickey Mouse and Friends will join the BOOM! Kids imprint, already home to comics based on The Muppet Show and Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles and Cars.
2. J. Michael Straczynski will ...
Sunday Brunch: 6/28/09
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources —
Why, hurrah! A new version of WordPress that makes things even more complicated, inconvenient, and counter-intuitive! I’m so happy.
Anyway, on with all the really important (read: inane) stuff from around the comics internet.
ITEM! (Remember those?) Bookseller.com reveals that Grant Morrison has authored a book– with words!– entitled Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, described as:
“…the definitive history of the superhero”, from the invention of Superman in 1938, through to the movie versions of ...
I know as much as you do.
Chris Weston —
... a dignified silence, despite some of the aspersions cast in my direction on the boards (and, yes... I'm aware that "dignified silence" is not one of my strong points as regular readers, acquainted with the forensic details of my genitalia, will attest!). I'll just leave you with everything I know on the subject of the book's future: "it's going to be finished come hell or high water" So says JMS in a Comic Book Resources interview. Think I've found my T-Shirt slogan for this year's San ...
JMS leaves THOR
THE BEAT —
Well-reviewed, chart-topping, but irregularly shipping, the J. Michael Straczynski/Olivier Coipel run on THOR was one of the better selling recent character relaunches. However, it had been rumored widely that JMS was leaving the book, and an interview at CBR confirms. The reason given isn’t any big blow-out, but rather that JMS didn’t want to get involved in a big company-wide Thor event:
The one concern at the back of my head was that of being pulled into a Big Event that could affect the forward momentum of the book and alter its direction. I’ve said elsewhere that in ...
In case you missed it: J. Michael Straczynski to leave 'Thor'
iFanboy —
... You might not have seen the news as it was released on Friday and lost to the weekend, but J. Michael Straczynski has confirmed that he is leaving Thor in September. ...
Weston knows as much as you do about the future of The Twelve
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
The Twelve #9
If you read Comic Book Resource’s interview last week with J. Michael Straczynski then you’re as up to date as artist Chris Weston is about the status of the unfinished Marvel miniseries The Twelve.
“I’ll just leave you with everything I know on the ...
CUP O' JOE: Thor, X-Factor, MAX
Comic Book Resources —
... along with Damon Lindeloff and sat in on our mini Ultimates Creative Summit. Allanâs insight and ideas were instrumental in helping us create âUltimatumâ and what comes directly afterwards. My apologies to Allan, if he even reads this column. Between a ton of artwork with impending deadlines and Comic-Con on the horizon, I rushed through the answer and neglected giving credit where creditâs due. Kiel Phegley: Joe, since we last spoke, J. Michael Straczynski announced right here on CBR that he'll be leaving "Thor" pretty soon and that the reason is because he didn't ...
Cup O' Joe - CUP O' JOE: Thor, X-Factor, Punisher MAX
Comic Book Resources —
... along with Damon Lindeloff and sat in on our mini Ultimates Creative Summit. Allanâs insight and ideas were instrumental in helping us create âUltimatumâ and what comes directly afterwards. My apologies to Allan, if he even reads this column. Between a ton of artwork with impending deadlines and Comic-Con on the horizon, I rushed through the answer and neglected giving credit where creditâs due. Kiel Phegley: Joe, since we last spoke, J. Michael Straczynski announced right here on CBR that he'll be leaving "Thor" pretty soon and that the reason is because he didn't ...
Cornucopia of DEATH! DC Comics Solicitations for November, 2009
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
Grumpy Old Fan
While pulling together my notes on DC's November solicitations, I saw that I was talking about Blackest Night a lot. Big shocker, right?
Well, it kinda was. See, BN's actual presence doesn't increase that much in November, but the event seems to have a bit more impact this time ...
The Fifth Color - TIMECRASH! November 2009 Solicitations
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
Our pal, the EEK in charge Joe Quesada has been very clear with us that Dark Reign won't last out this year (God, willing, the creek don't rise and shipping schedules don't fail us). At SDCC's Cup O' Joe he was asked this pretty directly and all on the panel sort of nodded calmly to the inevitable fact that whatever madness that got Norman Osborn to be in charge of national security would be put away by the end of 2009.
I know, direct, huh? Not exactly like our extravagant exaggerators and hold-out experts to just give us a timeline and shrug as they'll meet you at the finish line. Where's the panache? The bells? The whistles? ...
