Fan Rants

Good news! According to Ain’t It Cool News, Kevin Falls (creator of the excellent but short-lived Journeyman TV series) has completed a script for a new series on FX called Powers. This will be based on the comic book series Powers by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Oeming.

This is an excellent comic and I have been hoping they would make this into a TV series since reading the first few issues. From Wiki:

Powers is set in a world where superpowers are relatively common but not mundane. It follows the lives of two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, police officers in a Homicide department devoted to cases that involve “powers” (people with superpowers). Walker himself used to be a costumed superhero named Diamond, but became a police officer after he lost his abilities. Though stripped of his powers, he still retains his contacts within the superhero community, even becoming engaged to an ex-colleague, who is later killed. In later issues, Walker is offered the chance to become the world’s latest secret Guardian as part of The Millennium Guard, a secret group of intergalactic guardians, accepting the responsibility and the powers that come with it.

Lets keep our fingers crossed that this turns out at least half as good as what I can forsee in my head!

Years ago, before there were such things as Comic Book stores, retailers of periodicals would get credit for unsold items by sending back the top portion of the cover. This is still done by some book retailers but it was never presented as an opportunity for comic book stores.

This week, Marvel announced in a press release that they will be having a special variant edition of Seige #3 with Deadpool on the cover. How do you get this ultra rare comic? The only way is to send in 50 strips (top portion of a comic book cover) to Marvel. Oh, and not just any 50 strips, but specific DC comics:

• Adventure Comics #4
• Booster Gold #26
• Doom Patrol #4
• Justice League Of America #39
• Outsiders #24.
• R.E.B.E.L.S #10

Wow…I don’t know if I should be shocked by this or not. It’s really not going to affect the small comic retailers as several of these sold out quickly and 50 comics is quite a few to trade in for a single variant covered comic. The large retailers, or those who REALLY goofed on their numbers, can benefit from the exclusive. But to me this really smacks at a war cry between the publishers.

Perhaps the gloves are coming off now that DC Entertainment is handling film/TV rights a little more aggressively. Perhaps Marvel is a little jealous at the great response the Blackest Night story arc had at DC comics. All I want to know is how DC will respond or retaliate.

This week saw the release of techland.com‘s top 10 comic book picks of the last decade. Now don’t get me started on the fact that the decade doesn’t end till next year, but overall I do like their list:

1. The Ultimates (Marvel Comics)
2. 100 Bullets (DC/Vertigo Comics)

3. Planetary (Wildstorm)
4. All Star Superman (DC Comics)

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