Nerdy News for May 18, 2005

Ahoy maties! I've slashed through all the news and here's what's important today. There's a preview of Neal Adams X-Men story and it looks like you can go home again. Red Sonja is making a big comeback as you can see, and there's a nifty interview and preview images over here. If you sold all your old Red Sonja comics, never fear, they will be releasing them in trades, just like the Conan trades, with introductions by Roy Thomas. There's an interview with J. Michael Straczynksi about his upcoming FF run. Not much new here, but some dandy art by McKone, and he does say there will be a Silver Silver mini-series coming out with art by Essad Ribic, who did such a great job on the Loki mini-series that I almost bought it. I read somewhere else that the reason Mark Waid has dropped off all Marvel projects is that DC will be making him an exclusive offer that he can't refuse--like editing books in addition to writing them, which means he would have a hand in shaping the DCU. All the Rage reports that DC may be going after John Romita Jr in a big way as well. I'd love to see JRjr do Batman or Superman. Several sites are reporting that Kelsey Grammar from Frasier is going to play Hank McCoy (The Beast) in X-Men 3. He's a bit old for the role, but I'd love it if Bebe Neuwirth played his old girlfriend, Vera, from the 60s coffee a-go-go beat poetry days. Nuff said.