Primal
07-25-2005, 11:04 PM
Some of the interesting items from this weeks Lying in the Gutter.
THE BIG BAT
For those of you who want to know what next year's big Batman arc, coming off of the One Year Gap, highlight the following white text.
<font color=#020028>Bruce Wayne has been committed to Arkham Asylum and Nightwing has assumed the mantle of The Batman. Nightwing, however, will continue as an ongoing comic.</font>
Those who don't, please, continue in your Bat-ignorance.
DC CUTS
"Doom Patrol" and "Breach" have been officially cancelled according to internal DC memos, ending at issues 18 and 11 respectively. We can expect more to join them soon - including a number of projects that never even made it to solicitation. DC's schedule should be bumped up by the weekly "52" book after "Infinite Crisis" ends, as well as more IC spinoff books all over the place.
Last week's "52" story will be confirmed by the new Wizard Magazine.
DUE TBA
Devil's Due are going to do a new "G.I. Joe" series based on the "Sigma Six" animated series previewed by Hasbro at San Diego. Devil's Due might also be expanding the D&D line of comics with "Eberron" titles.
THE DREAMWAVE LEGACY
The appearance of Transformers trade paperbacks coming from IDW, listed by Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933239832//ref=nosim/transformers-20), collecting Dreamwave material has caused some creators to get rather annoyed - specifically because they haven't been paid for much of that work and haven't been contacted by IDW yet.
Chris Ryall of IDW tells me that, "It's being sorted out. We'd never take advantage of any artists or writers. We have to solicit those books 6+ months in advance, but everything will be taken care of before anyone's unpaid, unpublished work is ever used. Let me tell you, cleaning up other peoples' messes is a lot of fun."
Hasbro's lawyers have advised creators that they wish to deal with publishers who will pay existing creative debts but "if these amounts are excessive, it might be necessary to negotiate as to the amounts due and/or cherry-pick the publications."
The Amazon solicitations do not yet mention which creators worked on the unpaid volume number three.
As to last week's listing of Dreamwave's assets for sale, it turns out as expected Hasbro did seize the physical comic book stock, claiming ownership. This may be challenged by other creditors however, especially since much of the stock printed work that was never paid for. It looks like freelancers have as much of a claim on the stock as any other parties.
However, Destination Entertainment has acquired the rights from Hasbro to distribute some of those books, specifically ones that were never released to the public. These books currently include the Pocket Sized versions of "Transformers Energon" Volume 2, and a black and white version of "Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe" Volume 1.
Destination Entertainment will attend Cybercon Expo 2005, with copies for sale, before distributing through Diamond. Alex Milne, the artist for many "Transformers Energon" issues will be in attendance as well, so you can get newly purchased copies signed right there at the show.
No word as to whether Alex will get paid for them though.
The other glitch with the Dreamwave assets liquidations is that the Canada Investment Act prevent non-Canadians from bidding on the assets.
Intriguingly, one person planning to bid for certain trademarks is coffee-drinking Porsche-driving Pat Lee himself.
SAD OWSKI
"JSA" penciller Stephen Sadowski has stated that on issue 75 of the series, inker Michael Bair made a number of incorrect or uneccesary changes to the artwork in the inking process. His original pencils can be seen here (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=67324&page=4&pp=14) for comparison purposes. Source: Comic Book Resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2199)
THE BIG BAT
For those of you who want to know what next year's big Batman arc, coming off of the One Year Gap, highlight the following white text.
<font color=#020028>Bruce Wayne has been committed to Arkham Asylum and Nightwing has assumed the mantle of The Batman. Nightwing, however, will continue as an ongoing comic.</font>
Those who don't, please, continue in your Bat-ignorance.
DC CUTS
"Doom Patrol" and "Breach" have been officially cancelled according to internal DC memos, ending at issues 18 and 11 respectively. We can expect more to join them soon - including a number of projects that never even made it to solicitation. DC's schedule should be bumped up by the weekly "52" book after "Infinite Crisis" ends, as well as more IC spinoff books all over the place.
Last week's "52" story will be confirmed by the new Wizard Magazine.
DUE TBA
Devil's Due are going to do a new "G.I. Joe" series based on the "Sigma Six" animated series previewed by Hasbro at San Diego. Devil's Due might also be expanding the D&D line of comics with "Eberron" titles.
THE DREAMWAVE LEGACY
The appearance of Transformers trade paperbacks coming from IDW, listed by Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933239832//ref=nosim/transformers-20), collecting Dreamwave material has caused some creators to get rather annoyed - specifically because they haven't been paid for much of that work and haven't been contacted by IDW yet.
Chris Ryall of IDW tells me that, "It's being sorted out. We'd never take advantage of any artists or writers. We have to solicit those books 6+ months in advance, but everything will be taken care of before anyone's unpaid, unpublished work is ever used. Let me tell you, cleaning up other peoples' messes is a lot of fun."
Hasbro's lawyers have advised creators that they wish to deal with publishers who will pay existing creative debts but "if these amounts are excessive, it might be necessary to negotiate as to the amounts due and/or cherry-pick the publications."
The Amazon solicitations do not yet mention which creators worked on the unpaid volume number three.
As to last week's listing of Dreamwave's assets for sale, it turns out as expected Hasbro did seize the physical comic book stock, claiming ownership. This may be challenged by other creditors however, especially since much of the stock printed work that was never paid for. It looks like freelancers have as much of a claim on the stock as any other parties.
However, Destination Entertainment has acquired the rights from Hasbro to distribute some of those books, specifically ones that were never released to the public. These books currently include the Pocket Sized versions of "Transformers Energon" Volume 2, and a black and white version of "Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe" Volume 1.
Destination Entertainment will attend Cybercon Expo 2005, with copies for sale, before distributing through Diamond. Alex Milne, the artist for many "Transformers Energon" issues will be in attendance as well, so you can get newly purchased copies signed right there at the show.
No word as to whether Alex will get paid for them though.
The other glitch with the Dreamwave assets liquidations is that the Canada Investment Act prevent non-Canadians from bidding on the assets.
Intriguingly, one person planning to bid for certain trademarks is coffee-drinking Porsche-driving Pat Lee himself.
SAD OWSKI
"JSA" penciller Stephen Sadowski has stated that on issue 75 of the series, inker Michael Bair made a number of incorrect or uneccesary changes to the artwork in the inking process. His original pencils can be seen here (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=67324&page=4&pp=14) for comparison purposes. Source: Comic Book Resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2199)