Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* they're counting down to the release of the Dan Clowes art book and why not?

* this Fall, Drawn and Quarterly will be publishing Brian Ralph's alt-comics classic Cave~In as an all-ages book. New cover, too.

* Bruce Canwell announces that the second Library Of American Comics Alex Toth book is going to be late.

* Vertical, Inc. makes a couple of edition notes. I didn't know that the on-line booksellers might mis-price something in advance, but that makes total sense.

* there was some mainstream comics news publishing-type announcements at WonderCon. Changing the Thunderbolts to Dark Avengers seems to be an odd choice consider Marvel's relative lack of workable brands that weren't created in the early 1960s, but if it means we maybe get Brynocki as Dark Jarvis, I'm cool with it. Brian Wood is picking up a pair of the X-Men books. Kelly Sue DeConnick is the writer that will be transitioning the Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel character into a new iteration of Captain Marvel. DeConnick's superhero stories aren't really like anyone else's in the Marvel writer roster, so any platform for her is a good thing. Also, with DeConnick/Parker/Wood leading their WonderCon news, that's a nice job by Marvel in putting forward a few of their not-huge-star writers. Mark Waid unveils his immediate digital plans, which I think is probably the most interesting material from this show in terms of what we're going to see over the next six, 12, 24 months. It's also the one that will likely initiate the dumbest backlash.

* a final Steve Gerber story featuring the Lee/Thomas/Conway/Morrow swamp monster Man-Thing will appear this summer. That's nice.

* Brian Wood and Ming Doyle talk a science fiction/sports-related forthcoming project.

* two items of Rocketeer-related news, of all things, also WonderCon-related (at least one of them is). One is that Mark Waid and Chris Samnee will be doing an extended story featuring Dave Stevens' characters. I like both of those creators, and while I have to admit to almost no appetite for more Rocketeer I'm sure that will be a handsome, fun comic for those that do have that desire to see more of that world. The other is that IDW is collecting the other work from Dave Stevens, which I honestly didn't know was enough to generate a collection.

* speaking of collections, there will be two new ones this year featuring Liberty Meadows work.

* finally, a hardcover editions of The Silver Darlings is due this summer from Blank Slate.


 
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