Well, That’s Fairly Large
You know, I was going to be talking about how the upcoming Emerald City Comic Con has been announcing special guest from the world of web- and indy comics left and right.
I was going to point out that as of today, their site includes such names as Lucy Bellwood, Brandon Bird, Terry Blas, Ed Brisson, Katie Cook, Danielle Corsetto, Becky Dreistadt & Frank Gibson, Chris Eliopoulos, Madéleine Flores, Kaja & Phil Foglio, Zac Gorman, Brad Guigar, Tyson Hesse, Matt Inman, Jeph Jacques, Dave
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Kellett, Lucy Knisley, Scott Kurtz, Kate Leth, Sam Logan, David Malki !, Kel McDonald, Carla Speed McNeil, Dylan Meconis, Randy Milholland, Erika Moen, Yuko Ota & Ananth Panagariya, Andy Runton, Noelle Stevenson, Cameron Stewart, and the inescapable Jim Zub. And that’s just who I noticed on my first pass through the still-growing list.
Alas, I won’t be telling you about that, because of the huge, encouraging news that came out of (of all places) DC Comics: as part of a massive revamping of their line that largely walks back the New 52 nonsense, they’re bringing on a host of talent and releasing a stack of books that cover a far wider range of story and readership niches (while still staying firmly in Capeland) than we’ve seen before. Oh, and they’ve picked one of the very best of web- and indy comics to take over one of the highest profile gigs in all comics:
I’m working on Superman with the inimitable JOHN ROMITA JR! Our first issue comes out in June!
Thinking back to Gene Yang’s on-stage conversation with Scott McCloud in San Diego last year, one may recall that he resumed a light load of teaching at the high school level, meaning he just because the first cool high school computer science teacher in recorded history.
I am so excited about this, I am actually going to add a Superman book to my pull list, but if there is not at least one piece of deep red lacquerware featuring prominently in the plot line, I will be sorely disappointed. Yang (and his longtime colorist collaborator, Lark Pien) always made those look so good; yeah, he’s writing this book instead of drawing it, but he can get some lacquer in there.
Alas, it appears that we’ll be losing the webcomickiest comic book DC publishes: Batman ’66 (one of exactly three DC books I buy, the other two being the Karl Kerschl-drawn Gotham Academy and the Cameron Stewart-cowritten Batgirl) doesn’t survive the shakeup, but on the bright side we’ll be getting a Section Eight miniseries. Somewhere, Randy Milholland is very, very happy at the thought of defenestrations and dogweldings and the power of perversion. As are we all.
Spam of the day:
Thank you; while I am an engineer, I don’t need any boots right now, and anyway I prefer to buy shoes in person rather than via mail order.
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