Archive for the ‘Project Superpowers’ Category
While the Death Defying Devil is on its way from Dyanamite Entertainment, the first spin-off from the Project Superpowers series is The Black Terror. Dynamite Entertainment has sent Major Spoilers a rundown of the issue, plus all the covers by Alex Ross, John Romita Sr. Mike Lilly, and George Tuska.
Dynamite Entertainment has announced The Death Defying Devil #1 will be an ongoing series spinning out of the company’s Project Superpowers series. Joe Casey will write the series with Edgar Salazar will taking on the art duties, with John Cassaday providing alternate cover art.
“We’re extremely happy to be expanding the Project Superpowers Universe that Dynamite has built together with Alex Ross and Jim Krueger,” stated Dynamite’s Nick Barrucci. “Bringing Joe Casey as the scripter was a piece of the puzzle that Joe put together by reaching out to Alex to join our team. It’s great to know that great talent such as Joe could see what we were building towards in the initial series, and has helped us to showcase the ‘Devil as the next step towards introducing these ‘dynamite’ characters to the world! We cannot wait to show the fans more information and story art pages with our upcoming press and creator interviews!”
Take the jump for a preview of the covers as well as the soliticiation for the series.
Dynamite Entertainment has a small week this week, but two great titles make up for that. Take the jump for a sneak peek of Project Superpowers #6, and Zorro #7.
Or – “Strong Instincts Got Me Where I Am Today…”
Which is to say, the position of “Ineffectual Middle Management Suckup” with a part-time job at a comic store and a gig writing on the intarwebs. I will not say that I’m always right about whether or not a comic series will succeed. I rooted for Martian Manhunter, after all, and was a big fan of the recently deceased Shadowpact series. But, barring the occasional title for which I have an inexplicable fondness, my comic-picking thought process has a not-too-terrible batting average. When this book was advertised, I suspected that we’d be in for one of two possible rides: either we’d have the Alex Ross ‘Marvels’ experience (in which we were treated to loving examinations of iconic characters) or the Alex Ross ‘Universe X’ experience (in which we were inundated with hundreds of masked characters who were well-designed but essentially ciphers.) I hoped for the first, but expected the second… and one of my instincts was dead on.
Or – “The GREEEEEN… LAAAMAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
One of the great mysteries of the universe is the nature of “Public Domain.” At one point, a couple of decades ago, the rumor went around the comics industry that the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents were in public domain, and we suddenly got four or five different takes on reviving the characters. Most of the characters in this book are also being published sporadically by AC Comics in their Femforce series and related titles, and many of them were revived by DC/Wildstorm in Alan Moore’s Terra Obscura spinoff from Tom Strong. If you’re a comic ephemera geek like me, you may find this a little bit confusing… The vast majority of readers will see these characters for the first time here… and that’s both good AND bad.
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