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This is what I get for taking some time off the comic blogs and boards. The first I heard of it was the cover to the March 2007 issue of Previews, which features an Andy Kubert spread of heroes charging forward in the classic full-spread formation.
What's really interesting about the cover (aside from being an awesome Kubert piece) is the inclusion of certain 'heroes', namely Black Adam, OMAC, and Red Hood. Also present are Adam Strange and Shazam (Billy Batson, not the new Captain Marvel).
The best part, of course, is story architect, Paul Dini. I've loved his one-shots over in Detective, and can't wait to see what he does when he gets his hands on the entire DCU. I was already preparing to mourn the loss of 52, which had it's peaks and valleys, but overall has been entertaining, and picking up speed towards the end.
Quesada has already changed his tune at Marvel last month when he said he would consider doing something like 52, but a 'hybrid', like something that would ship every other week, instead of weekly. Firstly, that's not a hybrid, that's just a bi-monthly, which is not new, and secondly, when 52 was announced, Quesada decried it, saying it was bad for the industry and would probably fail due to occasional late shipments and disenfranchised fans. Of course now that the sales have come in, and 52 has whomped everything on the market thanks to a weekly shipping schedule (distrubutors and retailers figure that five issues of 52 shipping at 100,000 each beats a single issue of Civil War shipping at 250,000 units), Quesada and crew are seeing the viability and advantage of a weekly series. They certainly have enough talent to pull it off, and if the premise were solid (and devoid of any 'House of M', Secret War, Disassembled, or Civil War nonsense), I'd definitely put my 2.99 in. Another Secret War. I mean a -real- sequeal to Secret Wars would be awesome. Or even another take on Infinity Gauntlet (which rocked), or a follow up to Annihilation that involves the rest of the Marvel U. Just something with less political angst, and more of the old-school grand Marvel style that defined the greatest generation of comics. |
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