Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* growing top five comics publisher IDW has announced plans to work with Archie on archival material. This will include newspaper material, early Archie material, volumes collected by prominent creator and the Pureheart the Powerful material. If you have any interest in Archie at all, you should read the full article available through the link.

* much of the old Comico team reunites for a new, on-line effort co2 Comics.

* this one slipped by me: Godland's Tom Scioli has a new Myth of 8-Opus book coming out this summer.

* the Brian Bendis-written Powers will be relaunched.

* so I guess at some point there will be a team-up between DC's Justice League property and Teshkeel's The 99.

* old man alert: not only hadn't I heard of this project, I'm not sure I've heard of the person behind the project.

* CMX announced five new manga series at Anime Expo.

* the prolific mainstream comics artist John Romita, Jr. says there will be another three issues of The Gray Area, this time from Marvel's Icon imprint.

* reported everywhere and a long time ago with great enthusiasm, the writer J. Michael Straczynski will be leaving the Thor comic he helped make a consistent top 10 comic book. This is worth mentioning for the reason, which appears to be he didn't want to work with the narrative dissonance of the next mega-crossover, and for the fact that getting a Thor comic into the top 10 is a pretty amazing feat given the general sales fecklessness of that character's recent -- by which I mean the last quarter-century -- history.

* I never meant to suggest that Roger Langridge would stop doing Muppets comics after the conclusions of his recent, four-issue Muppet Show showcase, only that they were ending the series which had brought some attention to the deserving cartoonist. The Langridge-created muppet stuff continues in four-issue arcs.

* finally, Nathanial Cook has launched a site through which he will be reviewing mini-comics. You should all send him yours.


 
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