What’s going on in the Comic Book World? Life can be pretty busy, so we highlight recent news and articles that may catch your interest!
Batman #1 by new Ongoing Creative Team Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez will be published in September. DC Comics has decided to create an initiative around that book to offer jumping on point in the Batman line for new readers, as Scott Snyder explains in his newsletter:
We launch Matt Fraction’s Batman with Jorge. Amazing, right?
But are you going to go in and try more Bat books? I don’t know if you will. That’s why we created an initiative around that book. We’re doing almost a mini moment of jumping on points for all those books where everybody has the new costume. Everyone is sort of beginning stories. There’s some cool new books coming out. So that group of books as a moment where you can explore all of them at once, the way you can explore the Energon Universe. So to my mind, what this is saying structurally, the success of the Absolute and Ultimate Universes and the Energon Universe and Ghost Machine and a lot of these things happening right now, the Massive-Verse that
and his co-creators are doing so well, is that people want to feel like they’re getting in on something that is kind of a moment. It feels tectonic. It feels seismic. It feels inviting. It feels like you can lose yourself in it. And it’s a bunch of books that are all speaking the same language. And you have all of a sudden this whole thing to explore, this whole landscape to explore.
- Art Spiegelman Is “Learning How to Do This Comics Thing Again” – the artist talks with Hyperallergic about the legacy of Maus, comics techniques, Gaza, collaboration, and more.
- Marvel is teasing “the most shocking reveal in all 400 issues of Wolverine.” while Deadpool is hitting its 350th Comic Book Issue with a Rematch with Death Grip, the Debut of New Villain Kurami, and More.
- DSTLRY announces new series White House Robot Romance by Chip Zdarsky and Rachel Stott. The sci-fi romance follows two kitchen-bound robots who, just as they begin to transcend their programming, become ensnared in a political crisis that threatens to drag America and Canada into war.
- Walt Simonson is returning to Conan the Barbarian for a special digital-only issue with art by Jerry Ma, as well as supplying a cover.
- DC and Clover Press are teaming up for The DC Art of Jorge Jiménez, collecting some of the artist’s most famous work from the last decade and a half of comics.
- Artist Hayden Sherman Talks Absolute Wonder Woman, Artistic Inspiration, and Evolving Style with Comic Frontier.
- Not a new subject, creators such as Chip Zdarsky, Rick Remender and Dustin Nguyen are speaking out against the corporate comic book industry’s general mistreatment of their talent.
- Here’s your first look at DC x Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega and DC’s crossover comic with the first issue released on March 19.
- Before Gwen Stacy makes her return in May, explore her life, her death and her clones, here on Comic Book Treasury!