By San Diego Comic-Con 2005 is over and no big announcements of what DC will be like post-Crisis 2. The Superman rumblings were enough to tell us something will change but we are not quite sure what. We do get the impression that Superman Returns will probably kick ass from such people as Jim Lee on the blue tights site. The biggest DC news after the Spirit-Cooke deal is that Mark Waid is now exclusive. He’ll be a consulting editor and bringing back the Brave and the Bold team-up series. I found this quote from Waid to be tantalizing: “Clearly, the post-Infinite Crisis DCU is designed to be a much different landscape than what we’ve got now...this is your travelogue of the new DC Universe.” I wonder if Crisis 2 will be the opposite of Crisis 1. Will it pull apart DC’s heroes into separate universes? When I read Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers mini-series, I definitely get the feeling this is a brand new universe where the characters are re-imagined.
For the best DC Universe news summary, take a look over here at Comics Continuum’s coverage. Likewise, they have an excellent Marvel summary here as well. The biggest surprise that Marvel had at the con is that Moon Knight is returning in a series by Avengers artist David Finch and fiction writer Charlie Huston. Other than that, I see them mangling more characters than ever.
The coolest news I’ve seen is the Justice League Unlimited panel recap at the Continuum. JLU will continue for another season with all the villains gathering in one super-sized Legion of Doom. Hawkman and the Legion of Super-Heroes will make appearances. The Legion is another one of those gems that DC could really capitalize on in animation. Nuff said.
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