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June 20, 2005
Nerdy News for Friday, June 20, 2005
There's a bunch of DC and Crisis related news: somehow I missed this item about Geoff Johns taking on an editorial role to oversee the direction of the DC Universe before and after Infinite Crisis. Today there is an article about Grant Morrison taking on a similar role to revamp DC's backlog of characters into new series. If Morrison could make Animal Man into a must-have book, he should be able to do it for any character. They are talking about the Quality characters (Freedom Force, Doll Man, Phantom Lady, etc.) and I would hope that the Phantom Stranger is on the list. Meanwhile, it seems that Mark Waid is in discussions to go home again and become the new Flash writer after Geoff Johns leaves. That would heal my aching heart. I got very excited about learning that DC is working with a company to do a MMORPG based on the DC Universe. How cool would it be to create your own character, go online, and join the Justice League? Going over to Marvel, there's an interview with Bendis on why he thinks Spider-Woman is so cool. Check out that cover; I think she's cool too and I ordered Giant-Size Spider-Woman #1. I wish I still had my entire Claremont run of that book, the later issues with Leialoha on the art were great. In the movie world, these articles may get you excited about War of the Worlds after the Cruise-Holmes fiasco: this one talks about the film itself, while this one interviews Spielberg. Nuff said, I gotta go watch Oprah!
