Post by BIGKEV on Nov 12, 2007 19:31:10 GMT -5
Last week's rumor about Batman kicking the Batbucket to be replaced by a sidekick is kicking up steam. The original plan was for all the main DC icons to die and be elevated to the status of New Gods as part of the Fifth World, their sidekicks filling the roles they left behind.
However, that plan was abandoned internally at DC and reduced to a Bat-storyline by Grant Morrison. So look for Bruce Wayne New God to go head-to-head with Darkseid in "Final Crisis."
Well, I'm told it's the DC weekly comic that will follow "Final Crisis," written by Kurt Busiek. Starring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, Mark Bagley will draw every issue himself. Well, 14-16 pages of it anyway, for a whole year, with Fabian Nicieza contributing to a weekly back up feature with rotating artists.
Bagley is one of the faster professional comic book artists, regularly drawing 18 issues a year of "Ultimate Spider-Man" with a few other projects along the way. Along with the likes of Steve Dillon and John Byrne, he's probably the only big name who could manage such a workload.
A couple of years ago, I'm told that a senior VP at DC Comics met with one of the most senior figures at Warner Bros. for a chat.
The DC VP was boasting about the richness of story at DC's Vertigo imprint. And why not, they had lots to boast about. The Warner Bros. exec asked in that case why DC and Warner weren't developing more of the books into movies. The DC VP mentioned that DC don't necessarily control all of the Vertigo media rights anymore, but that was one reason why they got creators to write such great stories in the first place - retaining a level of personal creative control.
The Warner Bros. exec was not a happy bunny, asking why they would create a contract that saw the company lose money on a number of books, hope to make it on the collections, without having the safety net of full media rights.
The DC VP was made to amend Vertigo contracts for new creators from that point on, giving DC Comics and Warner Bros. a greater stake in potential media exploitation, and less control for the newbies.
However, that plan was abandoned internally at DC and reduced to a Bat-storyline by Grant Morrison. So look for Bruce Wayne New God to go head-to-head with Darkseid in "Final Crisis."
Well, I'm told it's the DC weekly comic that will follow "Final Crisis," written by Kurt Busiek. Starring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, Mark Bagley will draw every issue himself. Well, 14-16 pages of it anyway, for a whole year, with Fabian Nicieza contributing to a weekly back up feature with rotating artists.
Bagley is one of the faster professional comic book artists, regularly drawing 18 issues a year of "Ultimate Spider-Man" with a few other projects along the way. Along with the likes of Steve Dillon and John Byrne, he's probably the only big name who could manage such a workload.
A couple of years ago, I'm told that a senior VP at DC Comics met with one of the most senior figures at Warner Bros. for a chat.
The DC VP was boasting about the richness of story at DC's Vertigo imprint. And why not, they had lots to boast about. The Warner Bros. exec asked in that case why DC and Warner weren't developing more of the books into movies. The DC VP mentioned that DC don't necessarily control all of the Vertigo media rights anymore, but that was one reason why they got creators to write such great stories in the first place - retaining a level of personal creative control.
The Warner Bros. exec was not a happy bunny, asking why they would create a contract that saw the company lose money on a number of books, hope to make it on the collections, without having the safety net of full media rights.
The DC VP was made to amend Vertigo contracts for new creators from that point on, giving DC Comics and Warner Bros. a greater stake in potential media exploitation, and less control for the newbies.