With DC Comics and Marvel dominating the superhero comics market, it’s big news when another company decides to jump into the fray. For instance, Boom! Studios recently employed Stan Lee’s name when launching their heroic line. Now another group is ready to give it a try! So, let’s get into this week’s “comics in the headlines” news stories, all taken from the scifipulse.net website: Bluewater Productions To Launch Superhero Line In recent years Bluewater Publishing has been well known for adaptations based on popular movie icons such as their Ray Harryhausen line of books with ‘Wrath of The Titans’ and the ‘Vincent Price Presents’ line, and their most recent success was their adaptation of ‘Logan’s Run’ based on the novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.
Loosely based on Waid’s storyline ‘JLA: Tower Of Babel’ from JLA issues #43-46, the film will follow information about Batman’s League teammates, including each person’s weaknesses, that has been hijacked by an unknown baddie in an attempt to defeat the team. When the JLA learns just who put this info together, it has serious repercussions for years to come.
All this is about to change because in a release posted earlier in the week Bluewater Productions announced that they will be starting their own line of superhero books, which will be focus on ancient mythological heroes in modern times.
The new line of books is to be helmed by the firm’s art director Gregg Paulson and its line editor AE Stueve, in collaboration with a slew of artists and writers. This new series of comics will launch with issue 0 of ‘The Wave,’ and will be followed by four-issue mini-series.
GIGGITY GIGGITY! Titan Comics Set To Launch All-New ‘Family Guy’ Comics Series
Titan Comics and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products are pleased to announce the U.S. launch of the Family Guy comic series, based on the award-winning hit animated TV show from the mind of Seth MacFarlane.The Family Guy comic series will follow the Griffin family in a string of brand newoutrageous storylines, along with fellow Quahog residents Cleveland Brown, Joe Swanson and everyone’s favorite ladies man, Glen “giggity” Quagmire.
Family Guy has become one of America’s favorite animated TV shows of all time, and was named one of TV Guide’s “25 Top Cult Shows Ever!” The show boasts over 27 million fans on Facebook, and has been nominated for 13 Emmy® Awards including Outstanding Comedy Series.
‘Justice League: Doom’ To Kick Off 2012 For DC Direct-To-DVD Bruce Timm knows a good story when he reads one. After all, he’s written plenty himself. So it should come as no surprise at that the recent WonderCon in San Francisco, Timm announced that the first direct-to-DVD production for the DC Universe Original Animated Movies is based on a story from Mark Waid. It’ll be called ‘Justice League: Doom,’ according to thedailyblam.com. It will be available via local retailers in early Spring next year.
Loosely based on Waid’s storyline ‘JLA: Tower Of Babel’ from JLA issues #43-46, the film will follow information about Batman’s League teammates, including each person’s weaknesses, that has been hijacked by an unknown baddie in an attempt to defeat the team. When the JLA learns just who put this info together, it has serious repercussions for years to come.
Instead of a comic this week, I thought I’d review the recently released four-minute trailer for the upcoming ‘Green Lantern’ movie. It seems that the thing that caught the most fire on the Internet from Wondercon in San Francisco recently was the four-minute trailer for ‘Green Lantern,’ based on the DC Comics character.
For instance, I got so many Google alerts about it that I got a GL one for every other subject I get emails about. And that’s a lot!
That’s big news because, depending on who you talked with, the previous trailer turned on fans–or discouraged them.
It won’t take a lot of effort to scare up copies of each one … or both … on the Web.The first trailer, which aired on the U.S. infotainment program ‘ET,’ did the same thing to my Google alerts–both regarding the commercial advertising the trailer as well as the trailer itself.
But perhaps some of the really, really die-hard GL fans thought it was a little too funny. I think timing had something to do with it. It came out around Green Hornet, which was a little silly for my tastes.
But this one–Wow! I had to watch it three times in a row just to catch everything that was going on. Now, for those who don’t happen to be big GL fans (and hey, I’m a piker compared to some I know). I don’t hear anyone saying anything near that badly about this one, though! Oh, and the first one was more focused on Hal and humanity, while the second was much more sci-fi oriented. Maybe that’s why it has struck so many so powerfully.
And one more note–I hope they include that music on a soundtrack CD! Loved it!WTG, Warner Bros.! Even my friends who prefer Marvel say this put ‘Green Lantern’ back in the running with ‘Thor’ and ‘Captain America.’ Now we’ll see how they all do at the box office this summer!
And to conclude this column this week, I thought I’d talk a little more about ‘Family Guy’ coming to comics. I’m not a big fan of the show, but I do like to talk about it for one reason: it demonstrates just how to keep a program you like alive. When Fox cancelled it several years back, the show went to the Cartoon Network cable channel as well as seasons that were released on DVD. To everyone’s surprise, the ratings were so strong on CN and the disc sales so profitable that Fox decided to bring it back, where it continues to air on Sunday evenings to this day. What’s the point of this story? If you enjoy a program and want it to continue, support it financially and in other ways. Buy the DVDs when they come out, watch the show when it airs, buy the comics based on it. They call this “show BUSINESS” for a reason. If money is made from the show, you can be sure it will be back! In upcoming columns, I’ll look at just who are the hot writers and the hot artists in comics these days, so keep reading! Wayne Hall is co-editor and a news writer for SciFiPulse.Net. He also serves as a host for the SFP-Now podcast and also the Wayne’s Comics podcast. You can check both of them out at http://www.sfp-now.com.
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