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Newsarama reports that Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco will do twelve issues of Superman, after the post-IC story by Busiek and Geoff Johns is finished. There's a quote from Didio about trying to get A-list creators on the top tier books:
""There was an A+ creator that I wanted to work with, and in a meeting with him, told him that I'd love for him to write Superman or Batman, and he told me he just couldn't do it. I asked why not, and he said that he didn't have three years worth of stories in him. I told him I was just looking for six issues, and he was back on board, because he had a great six issue story. I told him that was t he story that I wanted from him. That's what this all is about, I wanted writers and artists to give me their best stories. If we still have juice after the six or twelve issues, then we'll see if we want to do more, but for starters, let's go with a finite number of issues, and your best story."
This shows you how far the industry has come. In the old days, Marvel and DC wanted creative teams to stick around for years. Now as long as they get six issues out of a team, it's sufficient, because a run like that will make a nice trade or hardcover book. Deadlines also matter very little now. Who cares if Ultimates, Defenders, Superman-Batman, etc., are months late? What matters the most to these companies financially is the collected editions.
Paul Dini let us know (through his blog at LiveJournal) that he will "be writing a ton of new Batman comics this year, along with a very special graphic novel starring two DCU darlings near and dear to my heart." Hmmm...could he be referring to Harley and Ivy? Zatanna and Black Canary? If you look at Dini's blog, I am thunderstruck by how much his wife Misty May resembles Zatanna. According to Newsarama, Dini will work on Detective Comics with Rags Morales for 12 issues. They might even put the detective back in Detective.
Looks like Rich Johnston's predictions are falling apart all over the place! He claimed Grant Morrison and Adam Kubert would be the Detective team, and that Mark Waid would write the Flash. Nuff said.
>Looks like Rich Johnston's predictions are falling apart all over the place! He claimed Grant Morrison and Adam Kubert would be the Detective team, and that Mark Waid would write the Flash. Nuff said.
One out of two ain't bad. And the Flash ain't over until... well...
Good job, Rich! I always enjoy reading your column...