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Title: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: Super Monkey on January 24, 2006, 07:49:26 PM
After the Busiek and Johns 8 part run who will take over?

Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco

That's who!


See Mr. Busiek, that's what happens when you start posting here, you get typecast, now you can't stop writing Superman comics.  :D


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: lastkryptonianhere on January 24, 2006, 07:57:52 PM
Now that is truly good news.


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: JulianPerez on January 25, 2006, 09:14:52 AM
The fact that Superman is going to be written by Kurt Busiek as an ongoing is great news. For one thing, it means that he can do one thing that he does well, which is create multiple story threads and "microplots" that over the course of the run are resolved, giving a payoff to someone that reads all of the run. Englehart too, was good at this technique, as was Paul Levitz.

Even more exciting is the hiring of the always classy Carlos Pacheco, whose mindblowing science fiction art in ARROWSMITH was what made that book extraordinary. Like all great artists, he is shown to visibly improve over time; I cannot believe that the same guy that did ARROWSMITH also did the far less polished AVENGERS/SQUADRON SUPREME ANNUAL '98.


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: Super Monkey on January 25, 2006, 11:58:12 AM
new article with more info about this run:
http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=57005

With artwork


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: Kurt Busiek on January 25, 2006, 12:15:22 PM
Quote from: "JulianPerez"
Like all great artists, he is shown to visibly improve over time; I cannot believe that the same guy that did ARROWSMITH also did the far less polished AVENGERS/SQUADRON SUPREME ANNUAL '98.


Wait'll you see his cover to AQUAMAN: SWORD OF ATLANTIS #41...

kdb


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: Genis Vell on January 26, 2006, 05:06:17 AM
I'm happy.
Thank you DC.

One and only problem: Pacheco will need a replacement often, sigh.


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: Super Monkey on January 26, 2006, 03:52:47 PM
The big Kielbasa tells all in this new interview about his upcoming run on Superman!

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=57173


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: Great Rao on January 26, 2006, 06:17:20 PM
Talking about his upcoming run on Superman,
Quote from: "Kurt Busiek"
New villains. Returning villains. A new role for Lana Lang. Pericles Hazard. Camelot Falls. Outer space. Paragon. New realms to conquer for a certain bald-headed master criminal. Friends from the past, menaces buried for decades, catalysts in the present from decades ago. Jimmy Olsen's Blues. Krypto. The problem of Smallville. The Science Police. The Galactic Golem. The strangest object in the universe. When he was a boy. A day that may or may not ever happen. Pete Ross's post-White House career. Time-traveling tourists and gorilla underclassmen. The bubble city of Metropolis. The Envoy. Maxima. Amalak. The secrets of Lexcorp. Subjekt-17. A shattered Earth. Two new Metropolis-based heroes, for very different reasons. Brainiac. Khyber. Omni-fi. Superman's true home. Romance, action, mystery, suspense, science fiction, sorcery, and a pie in the face.

And when asked to identify his favorite elements of the Superman mythos,
Quote from: "Kurt Busiek"
My single favorite element of the Superman mythos is Superman's indomitable spirit.  That, and the imaginative sense to Superman's world that says that nothing, but nothing is impossible, and leads to gigantic stories of galactic, operatic scope and small-scale personal stories that get at the very human hearts within these characters.

Either that, or it's Vartox. I'm never sure.

I am very happy and can't wait to read this title!  Kurt, you've got my support and my thanks.

:s:


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: Super Monkey on January 26, 2006, 06:28:07 PM
For the 1st time in 20 years I am actually looking forward to reading an on-going regular Superman comic. This book and All-Star Superman, I think that finally everyone, old and new fans alike are excited again about Superman.

Now, who will be doing Action Comics and what about the new Superman series?

I know who I would like to see write those two books, but I don't know what DC has plan.


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: King Krypton on January 29, 2006, 07:24:31 PM
And what a shock: the Iron Age fanboys are already raking Busiek over the coals for being "too Silver Age." The ringleader of the bunch, Man of the Atom, even dragged Busiek into an argument in which he tried to pressure Busiek into conforming to the Iron Age mentality of "1986-1999 holy writ, everything else bad."

If they're that upset about it, then it makes me keen to see what he's got in store. Matt Wagner, Mark Waid, and Darwyn Cooke were savaged for their "Silver Age/ anti-Byrne" material, and their works were some of the best Superman stories in recent memory. If Busiek's in the same vein, I'm all over it.


Title: Re: and the new ongoing Superman creative team is...
Post by: prime nova on February 01, 2006, 01:20:36 AM
Growing up in the 80s, I liked Byrne's Superman just fine. Heck, I collected the books pretty much non-stop till a few years after the Death-Return dealio. Byrne's Superman is not a bad take on the character, but there's only so far that you can go with a "Marvelized" Superman.

It took me growing up to realize that Superman SHOULD be a fantasy comic. Superman comics cannot survive by being grounded in reality for long, as we have seen. It SHOULD be about hope and unbridled imagination. It took Alan Moore's pastiche, Supreme, to made me appreciate that fact by showing me that monthly example of how you can have sophistication and Silver Age whimsy and make it truly work.

That book became the first comic since my early days of collecting that I loved to read so much that I couldn't STAND that wait between issues. I had to have more. All-Star Superman has brought up much of those same feelings, but now there are regular reprints of SA Superman to help get thru the 60 day wait between issues.

Kurt's arrival on Superman couldn't have come at a better time, IMO. I'm starving for more good ole-fashioned Supes. Depending on who writes Action Comics I plan on subscribing to both titles again. I trust Kurt to sign on to a full year of Superman.