Nerdy News for May 16, 2005

August 2005 DC Comics solicitations are now up at Comic Book Resources, and the top two items (click to expand the pics) really caught my eye. The first one because one of the things I loved about 60s era DC Comics was the imaginary stories: "What if Superman married Lana Lang and Had Super-Kids and sent Lois to the Insane Asylum?" They were silly in retrospect but magical if you were a kid reading them, and there's really no replacement for them today. The Brian Bolland cover shows a few gems that I recognize: Superman-Red and Superman-Blue; Lori Lemaris, the mermaid that Clark Kent fell in love with; the Batman with the II on his chest...is that the son of Batman from the World's Finest series? The second cover is another Wonder Woman bondage spectacle. It's pretty amazing that this is the secret of WW's appeal from 1940 until 2005: sales are down, let's tie up the bitch and see if we can sell a few more copies! No complaints from me, I might even go for it--Rags is drawing the book and it's a Crisis tie-in. The effects of the Countdown mini-series are reverberating through Wonder Woman, Flash, etc. The Secret Society of Super-Villains (SSSV) are hitting hard in Action, JLA, and Villains United. This kind of continuity pollination is what Marvel invented but can't do anymore. They's rather strip away continuity so they can have two totally different Iron Men and Shanna's running around. Nuff said.