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Welcome home, Paul Levitz

Jim Lee and the Wildstorm office collaborated on this wonderful Legion of Super-Heroes piece for Paul Levitz, the former president and publisher of DC Comics, as well as once and future writer of the Legion. The framed version, which looks like it has messages written on it from the Wildstorm folks, can be found at the link above.

Another collective "Whoa" erupts as industry reacts to DC news

The new Warner Bros. mural (photo by Jonah Weiland)

Still reeling from last week's big Marvel/Disney news, the comics industry was shocked -- shocked, I tell you! -- once again with today's announcement from Warner Bros. Entertainment about the restructuring of DC Comics into something called DC Entertainment. These corporate shuffles can take months to work out from conception to whenever they are finally announced, so it would be a huge stretch to say this was some sort of reaction to the Disney-Marvel deal, but the coincidental timing is pretty amazing.

"I always wondered when Warner Brothers would figure out that they owned DC Comics," blogger and retailer Chris Butcher posted today. "Turns out? September 9th, 2009."

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