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ANDERSON TO WRITE LAST DAYS OF KRYPTON NOVEL
Press Release
Best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson just closed a major
deal with DC Comics and HarperCollins Books to write “Last Days of
Krypton,” an epic novel about the demise of Superman’s home planet. The
novel, reminiscent of “The Last Days of Pompeii,” shows the pomp and
grandeur of a doomed world, the politics and struggles, brave heroes
and traitors, and finally the escape of one baby. The story features
Jor-El and Lara (Superman’s parents), as well as famous villains
General Zod and Brainiac, and how a whole planet came to be destroyed.
In almost 70 years of “Superman,” this complete story has never been
told.Anderson, who also won science-fiction’s highest paid advance for
co-authoring a series of DUNE novels with Brian J. Herbert in 2004, is
one of science fiction’s most successful authors, not to mention most
prolific. Since 1993, 40 of his novels have appeared on national and
international best seller lists, and he has over 20 million books in
print worldwide, translated into 29 languages.Fans of Superman legend and of Kevin J. Anderson can expect the new
book to release in Fall 2007. For more information, please visit www.wordfire.com
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Now this is a great article about the creators of Superman.
I learned something new too, I had no idea Jerry Siegel’s father was murdered by a robber when he was young. That does explain some things.
Read the rest of the article at the link below.
JOURNEY INTO COMICS: THE SECRET OF SIEGEL’S ATTIC – NEWSARAMA
JOURNEY INTO COMICS: THE SECRET OF SIEGEL’S ATTIC
by Michael San Giacomo
No matter how many New York Times best-selling novels or monumental comic books he writes, Brad Meltzer is as much a comic geek as anyone.
Meltzer came to Cleveland last week to promote his novel The Book of Fate
(great book, buy it.) Like many other comic fans, he wanted to see the
place where it all started, the house where Jerry Siegel created
Superman.I’ve given this tour so often to visiting comic fans I feel like an
adjunct member of the local tourism board – except that Cleveland does
nothing to promote its Superman heritage. But that’s another rant.I picked up Brad at his hotel one rainy afternoon to give him the grand comic tour of the city.
Like any good comic geek, I tried to con secrets out of him about Justice League of America, Infinite Crisis and 52.
His DC editors will be happy to know he’s a clam. We talked about (what
else?) comics old and new and decided that we live in wonderful times
for comics.Soon we were in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland. This was once
a prosperous Jewish enclave in Cleveland, but by the 1950s most of the
Jewish residents used their GI Bill money to buy houses in the suburbs.
They all moved away.
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The Wife and I always enjoyed that show, I just might have to pick that up…
JOSS WHEDON TALKS BUFFY “SEASON 8″ – NEWSARAMA
JOSS WHEDON TALKS BUFFY “SEASON 8″
In speaking with Entertainment Weekly’s
(and occasional comic writer) Jeff Jensen, Joss Whedon revealed more
details on the March-debuting return of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to
comics.As revealed previously, the new series, to be published by Dark Horse
and illustrated by Georges Jeanty (with covers by Jo Chen), will pick
up after season seven of the television series, making the new series a
canonical Season 8. Dark Horse Buffy editor Scott Allie announced at San Diego that Whedon, at that time, had roughly 20 issues mapped out.“I don’t know exactly why it or how it happened,” Whedon told Jensen.
“I just thought, ‘Oh, I could do that! It would be fun!’ It happens to
me every now and then, and causes me to commit to things I really don’t
have time for.”In talking about the new series, Whedon confirmed that the project’s roots go back to a plan to continue Buffy on film. ”I had been thinking about doing some TV movies based on Buffy
characters, but we could never get anything resembling financing
together that was realistic, so it fell by the wayside,” Whedon said.
“But that whole failed endeavor made me start thinking about what would
happen next, and what the stories and mythology would be. I realized
there was a lot to say, and it could make for a really fun comic book.”Whedon will write the first four issues of the new series, and will
then pull back to oversee other writers on the project, modeling it
after television production. While the bulk of the writers coming on
the series had not been named, it has been revelaed elsewhere that Jeph
Loeb has signed on for an arc.Other hints from Whedon about the new series:
- The thousands of girls who were empowered by Buffy at the end of
Season 7 – still empowered. But that doesn’t mean there’re no more
problems: “She may have closed the Hellmouth under Sunnydale and
defeated The First. But evil? Still rampant!”- The comic will deal with Buffy’s time aboard, as she was revealed to have been in Italy during Angel.
- Ideas that Whedon once held for a possible television spinoff
unofficially entitled “Slayer School” will make it into the new series,
especially now that there are thousands of new slayers the world over.- The Scooby Gang will be back…but slowly, as time has passed and the
audience will, according to Whedon, have to re-learn who these people
are at this later point in their respective lives. Whedon said he wants
to give everyone the entrance they deserve. “Over the course of my
four-issue arc, you’ll get a sense of where most of our major
supporting characters are now.”- Angel and Spike will be used, but sparingly, due to IDW holding the
comic rights to the characters. Additionally, the new series will not resolve what happened at the cliffhanger ending of Angel.Click the link above for the full article and additional images from the series.
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