LITG: Volume 2 #29

Primal · Dec 6, 2005

Green is the most reliable, Amber means there's likely an interest involved or the likelihood isn't set and Red means even I can't quite bring myself to believe it.

MEN AT WORK

"The Omega Men" is a new limited series, to be published by DC Comics next year.

Will it have Lobo in it?

Well no, but that's okay. There's a "Batman/Lobo" miniseries in the works as well. And "Challengers Of The Unknown". Creative teams, when we have them…

GENESIS? OR REVELATION?

Marvel are starting to prepare their new big mystery - who are the mystery men on the cover of Ed Brubaker's "X-Men: Deadly Genesis" #4? And what is the identity of one mysterious fellow who knows Cyclops and Xavier, but not Wolverine?

X-Men: Deadly Genesis #4, Cover

The filename of this artwork on websites is 'XDEADLYG004_edited.jpg'. So, what's been edited? Turn the white out on chaps!

<font color=#020028>Well, in an earlier version of the image doing the rounds (that now seems to have been deleted), the mystery figures all appear to be Charles Xavier. Or looks like him.

Which bumps up speculation that the mystery character is Changeling, who took Xavier's place and supposedly died during an early run on the book back in the sixties/seventies/probably before I was born.</font>

You know, Marvel, if you tease a mystery with blanked out figures, you really have to make sure the actual covers aren't available in some form somewhere… ("Ultimates," "X-Men," "X-Statix"...)

LATE TO HELL

So why did Lee Bermejo drop off "Hellboy," to be replaced by Duncan Fegredo?

Well, the book was initially delayed due to Bermejo's schedule and speed. In "BPRD," editor Scott Allie states

"Lee [Bermejo] isn't the fastest artist on the block (that'd be Guy [Davis]) but he's the best guy for the job...."

and

"This week he [Bermejo] turned in pencils for four more pages of 'Darkness Calls,' and one of those pages in particular made Mike say to me, 'We got the right guy.'"

But there can be only so long a patient editor can take.

Concerning the book now shipping over a year after the original planned date, on the CBR Hellboy forum, Allie answers the plaintive cry "I was hoping another artist would mean more Hellboy sooner!" with "IT DOES!"

Ouch...

Abandoned Bermejo artwork for "Hellboy: Darkness Calls":

Hellboy: Darkness Calls
Hellboy: Darkness Calls, Page 13

DICK TOWER

Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series has produced quite the fandom, as seen here. It's full of resources, theories, and general fandom-related stuff. It maintains a comprehensive list of books that connect to "The Dark Tower." For comic book fans looking to get into the up-coming series, but not wanting to shell out the money (or library cards) for the books, it's a great place visit.

However, not all "Dark Tower" fans are best pleased by Stephen King and Marvel's fans. Imagine the Newsarama Talk Boards turned up to eleven. Here are a few.

There seems concern basically that Stephen King won't actually write the series. That Marvel are a poor choice for publisher. That comics are just for fat kids and nerds. That Marvel will end up owning part of "The Dark Tower." Jae Lee isn't up to it.

Well, I think we can all agree with the third one. But the rest? Please...

It does lighten me to see a mirror image of this thread, from the opposite perspective however.

We're all the same under the skin!
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Source: Comic Book Resources

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