Random Publishing News Round-Up



A few items of straight-up publishing news, sparked by announcements made by mainstream comics companies at the recent Wizard World LA show, caught my attention.

* I missed this one, but it looks like Marvel will build on its successful publishing effort related to Stephen King's Dark Tower by doing an adaptation of The Stand. King's post-apocalyptic fantasy came out thirty years ago and was read by a lot of young comics readers in the next five years the same way they were reading many of their comic books: as electrifying pulp that dealt with a lot of adult issues but did so in a way that it wasn't baffling or depressing to try and process them. It's hard for me to imagine a successful comics version of that book's sprawling narrative, to be honest, and the story is less visual than it is about the way the survivors process the events in front of them, but I thought it was interesting they went for the other big-ass fantasy in King's oeuvre as a follow-up to the Dark Tower books.

* Buenaventura Press has moved their recent publishing news update to the top of this section of their site. Speaking of which, I kind of knew Ted May was blogging, but I had kind of forgotten it, too.

* I hadn't know that James Robinson was making a sort-of full-time return to comics. It should be interesting in that while Robinson has been a very well-regarded mainstream comics writer, I don't see what's going on right now in mainstream comics as indicative of anyone specifically building on what he accomplished in the mid- to late-1990s. At least not to my eye. I'll be interested to see how fans react.

* Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction are going to expand their writing partnership on Immortal Iron Fist into Uncanny X-Men.

* It looks like a reprint of Jordan Crane's lovely The Clouds will include five new pages, I'm guessing work drawn from a French-language edition of the book.

* Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale are doing another one of their mini-series snapshots of Marvel history, this one focusing on Captain America. The previous volumes were generally well-received, and all together they make up a nice-looking corner or half a shelf of the superhero section of better comics shops.
 
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