Project: Rooftop has teamed up with Pulp Secret and Jim Hanley’s Universe for a new art contest where you get to redesign Superman’s costume.

P:R, P.S., and JHU are putting out the call for redesigns of the first superhero with Superman: Man of Style! Jim Hanley’s Universe has provided these incredible prizes:

Grand Prize (1) - The Superman No. 14 statue, Superman: Birthright TPB signed by writer Mark Waid, and Superman #676 signed by our own Vito Delsante, who wrote the issue!

Second Prize (1) - Justice League Animated Superman mini maquette and a signed copy of Superman #676.

Third Prize (1) - Superman #676 signed by Vito!

In addition the Project: Rooftop panel judging the contest, Mark Waid will also join the panel to pick the best images.

Complete details about the contest can be found at the Project: Rooftop site. Entries are due June 15, 2008.

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The year was 1991. The group; Crash Test Dummies. The song; The Superman Song. The point? Well Superman didn’t get into this job to make money - he just did what he thought was best. Oh, and there is something about Tarzan in there too.

DC Comics let Major Spoilers know the story originally solicited for Superman Confidential #9 will now appear in Superman #676.

Writer Vito Delsante and artists Julian Lopez and Bit tell the tale of how the Man of Steel met the original Emerald Sentinel, Alan Scott! As a mysterious team of scientists tracks a dangerous threat headed toward Metropolis, Superman learns the first lesson of super-heroism from the man who wrote the book!

No word on what’s happening with the story originally solicited for Superman Confidential #9, but I’m sure there’s something waiting in the wings.

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DC has announced the Kurt Busiek/Mark Bagley Trinity series will debut with 40-pages instead of the normal 22, while still keeping the $2.99 price.

Busiek, Bagley and inker Art Thibert write and illustrate the lead stories for this series, which begins by exploring the unusual bond — and importance — of DC’s top three characters, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, as a mysterious dream links them together and may prophesy important changes in their trinity!

If you thought Final Crisis was the next weekly series from DC, guess again - Trinity will be spinning weekly tales of the big three, as well as backup stories featuring other prominent players in this year long storyline.

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It is not often that you get a book that does both “insanely humorous” and “meaningful undertone” within the same covers. On the advice of a friend, I picked up Superman/Batman #46, and I loved it.

Now, I’ll admit from the get-go here, I’m not the world’s biggest Superman fan. I find him boring and predictable. At least, while reading something like Batman, I can sit there going; “OK, I know he’s ‘Batman’, but something still could happen to him.”

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Check out these stunts during the Slam Dunk competition at the NBA All-Star Game.

I wonder how Shaq feels about this?

From his message board, Mark Millar says he’ll do a new Superman script completely for free.

It’s 8.58am right now, my guys at CAA get into the office in about seven hours and my call will be waiting for them to talk about this. I want to revamp Superman like Hillary wants thin ankles. Revamping this franchise is what I as given fingers for and so, invited or not, I’m putting my plan together now. I’ve been asked to work on half a dozen screenplays lately, but this is the only one I have ever truly wanted.

As most here know, I have literally hundreds of pages of notes and sketches just waiting for this opportunity. This would be my dream gig and, as a fan, I know exactly what this project needs to work. This has to be Superman for the 21st Century, keeping everything we adore, but starting from scratch and making the kids love it as much as the 30-somethings. I would honestly write this thing for free.

Anyway, my treatment is being polished as we type. Wish me luck. I want to do that Superman movie we all want to see.

ARE YOU LISTENING H’WOOD? Talk about getting around that whole writer’s strike thing…

Nope, didn’t think so.

via Millarworld

According to Variety Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris have decided not to return to write the sequel to the Superman Returns movie.� Opted not to return, or asked not to return?� Considering the negative criticism the film received from movie goers, this sounds like a great PR stunt to let them bow out gracefully.

A potential writer’s strike is just days away, leaving the WB scrambling for new writers while at the same time trying to figure out who will play Superman in the Justice League movie.

Marvel Studios is adopting that let’s-try-again strategy with “The Hulk” at Universal, hoping a new pic, starring Edward Norton, will launch a franchise that Ang Lee’s 2003 actioner failed to do.

But WB denies such plans and said next pic would be a sequel with Brandon Routh likely to wear the “S” on his chest again. Legendary Pictures is co-developing and co-financing the project.

Think you can write a better script?� Better get your agent on the phone today.

via Variety

In an excellent interview with DC’s Main Man in Hollywood Gregory Novek, Voices from Krypton ask why Welling won’t be Superman in the JLA movie.

VOICES FROM KRYPTON: And then there are all of those Internet rumors about Tom Welling being cast as Superman�
GREGORY NOVECK: Not happening, if for no other reason than it would just confuse the issue.
VOICES FROM KRYPTON: And if that�s the case, I wonder why they wouldn�t just use Brandon Routh again.
GREGORY NOVECK: I think part of it is that the character is larger than the actor. If you look at Batman, Superman and Justice League as separate franchises, if all of a sudden you have Brandon in it but you don�t have Christian, then what movie is it? I think you have to have it stand on its own. I�m just speculating, but if I�m the director of this movie, I don�t want to have to be too careful of another director�s iteration of a character. If I use his actor, then I�m kind of beholden to it. What if George Miller hired Brandon and Christian, but he wanted Brandon to really play Superman tougher and wanted Christian to show more humanity, then all of a sudden you�re entering very strange creative territory. The same is true of using Tom Welling. I think ultimately it�s a better movie if you have different actors to keep the iterations of the characters distinct. The example I�ve been using is, is it the Mike Mignolia Batman versus the Frank Miller Batman? It�s still Batman, they�re just different versions of it. I think when we start to open up the films with that kind of lens, where you can say, �These are all Superman, but they�re different versions� � even from Tom Welling to Brandon Routh, right? � that�s pretty cool.

Head over to the website for more on why it’s a good idea for Tom Welling to move on, and what role Novek has in what gets put into the movies, and what doesn’t.

via Voices From Krypton

Gotta love Clark’s sense of humor. Especially since he (as Superman) and Big Barda starred in a Sleez produced porno.

You know those guys that hang out on Hollywood Boulevard in superhero costumes so you can take pictures? Turns out there is a documentary about them, directed by Matt Ogens.

Pic chronicles the alternately poignant and amusing paths of the struggling actors who pay the bills by playing superheroes on Hollywood Boulevard. Central characters are Batman, Superman, the Hulk and Wonder Woman.

Now there’s a crossover you probably didn’t expect to see…

The film will screen at AFI in October.

via Variety

Things appear to be getting worse at DC as it sent out yet another notice about changes to the Superman title. Everything is getting shuffled around again, but at least we’ll get to see the end of the Camelot Falls arc - in November.

Sigh… I constantly pull for you, DC, I really do. Fortunately, I don’t read that much Superman stuff, so it isn’t affecting me that much, but really…

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Engrish.com found this product for sale.� I think it’s funny, mainly because I know I get made fun of when I try and speak another language.

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DC Comics has announced some scheduling issues with Superman Confidential. First up is issue #6 that was supposed to be the final chapter of the Kryptonite storyline, written by Darwyn Cooke and illustrated by Tim Sale, will now appear in a future issue of Superman Confidential.

This also means the Kryptonite Hardcover has been canceled and will be resolicited at a later date.

Take the jump for a break down of the next four issues of Confidential.

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