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- Posted on July 7, 2009 - 06:48 AM by Kevin Melrose
Archie
Publishing | IDW Publishing is partnering with Archie Comics to reprint some of the earliest and most iconic Archie comic strips as part of the Library of American Comics imprint. The move was hinted at last week in the inclusion of an IDW executive on a list of participants in an Archie Comics panel at Comic-Con International.
The initial hardcover will collect original strips by publisher John Goldwater and artist Bob Montana. Additional Best Of volumes will showcase the work of such artists as Montana, Dan DeCarlo and Stan Goldberg. Craig Yoe also is set to edit a series of collections of the mid-'60s Archie superhero title Archie as Pureheart the Powerful and the offbeat Archie's Madhouse. [press release, ICv2.com]
Publishing | Calvin Reid checks in with Vertical Inc., which has had to shift gears in the wake of the economic downturn. [Publishers Weekly]
Batman #692
Creators | DC Comics has announced that Tony Daniel will take over as writer and artist of Batman for six issues beginning in October. Daniel previously wrote and drew the Batman: Battle for the Cowl miniseries. [The Source]
Creators | Writer Nick Spencer discusses Existence 2.0, his new miniseries from Image Comics. [Comics Waiting Room]
Conventions | Heidi MacDonald provides an overview of Comic-Con International for a mainstream audience. [Publishers Weekly]
Doctor Voodoo
Comics | Doctor Strange ultra-fan Neilalien lays out his problems with the (former) Sorcerer Supreme's "great arc": "Switching to Brother Voodoo unlikely will solve what's best described in Aquaman terms as The Water Problem. The Magic Problem? There's been no actual exploration of a magical system that makes more sense, or a new way found to put Doctor Strange in danger, as Quesada says Doc requires, in any panel of New Avengers. Nope -- they're just trying the same shade of lipstick on a different pig. Brother Voodoo is weaker, so he'll feel in more pro-drama peril than Dr. Strange? Well, not anymore! -- making him Sorcerer Supreme, which apparently ups power now, and giving him the Eye of Agamotto nixes that storytelling advantage. Brother Voodoo's magic has a better rules system? We're one voodoo doll pin and shrunken head nonsensically affecting some godlike entity away from losing that advantage." [Neilalien, via Sean Collins]
Black Knight
Comics | Ben Morse looks at one of the most shameful periods in Avengers history: the early-'90s era of the leather jackets! "The Black Knight in a leather jacket with a little "A" symbol was like your 40-something uncle listening to Spin Doctors and trying to hang with you and your friends. Crystal and Sersi in biker gear was like the snobby girls at your high school putting their hair in dreadlocks unironically." [The Cool Kids Table]
Comics | Shaenon K. Garrity selects theme songs for such books as Fables, Ghost World and Cerebus. [Comixology]
ComicsLive Today
New York | Comic Book Club Live presents Geekanerd Night w/Ana Hurka-Robles and Dave. The event starts at 8 p.m. at the Peoples Improv Theater. Details here.
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6 Comments
Adam
July 7, 2009 at 7:20 am
John Goldwater isn't the creator of Archie. Bob Montana is. I don't care how many press releases they put out saying so, it's never gonna make it true.
Aaron Poehler
July 7, 2009 at 8:31 am
"Switching to Brother Voodoo unlikely will solve what’s best described in Aquaman terms as The Water Problem."
I've read this sentence five times and can't make it make sense.
Joe Shmoe
July 7, 2009 at 8:31 am
Adam, you are so right. Thanks for speaking the truth. I asked Jerry Robinson (who knew Bob Montana personally) about this at a convention and he said the same thing. Proper credit for Montana is long overdue.
Wraith
July 7, 2009 at 8:56 am
"There’s been no actual exploration of a magical system that makes more sense, or a new way found to put Doctor Strange in danger, as Quesada says Doc requires"
The same Joe Quesada who said "it's magic we don't have to explain it" in defending the dreadful deus ex machina for retroactive divorce which he believed that Spider-Man "required?"
Yes, Joe Quesada says a lot of things. Trying to rebut them in a logical fashion is usually a bad idea, sort of like slice up a blob of mercury. There's nothing solid there to dissect.
hypestyle
July 7, 2009 at 9:41 am
I will support dr. voodoo in New Avengers, and the new solo book as well.. I hope it continues for a long stretch..
Marvel does have thematic rules governing magic, but they are more often than not ignored by writers/editors. The level of magical potency is determined by the ‘psyche’ and trainings of the magician; exceptions involve magic items with a specific purpose.
Energy Sources for Magic in the Marvel U:
Personal Energies- example- astral projection/travel, other psychic-based powers.
Universal Energies- example- duplicating various traditional super-powers
Dimensional Energies- example: Rings of Raggadorr, Mists of Morpheus, entreating Dormammu, Vishanti, etc.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4339037.Realms_of_Magic
chris juricich
July 7, 2009 at 5:10 pm
generally doc strange's epithets were quite alliterative...crimson bands of cytorrak, dread dormammu, eye of agomotto, etc.
for the reasons stated in earlier posts, Doc Strange never worked for me, particularly after Ditko left the book. I always just figured him for a 'combat magician' who was maybe more knowledgeable and umm..skillful at what he did with magic.
whatever.