WINNER NAMED IN SHADOWLINE’S WHO WANTS TO CREATE A SUPER-HEROINE CONTEST

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With over 5,000 entries to go through, five finalists were announced in what may have been comics’ first contest for writers! For the first time ever the fans were allowed to choose their favorite, which will go on to be published through Shadowline as 3-issue mini-series, drawn by fan-favorite artist Franchesco!

The clear winner was Tom Arguello’s Incredible Journey:
Journey Dominguez was a normal teenage girl with big dreams living in a world full of superheroes. All she ever wanted was to be one of them. Everything changes one day when she finds a strange necklace on the street. She puts it on only to find out that she cannot take it off, and that it gives her the ability to summon a temporary superpower for whatever situation she’s in. There’s only one catch; every time she uses a power, she is really stealing it from one of the Superheroes, leaving them permanently powerless and the world increasingly defenseless. All Journey Dominguez ever wanted to be was a super hero. Now, she must convince the world she is not a super villain!

Shadowline Editor-in-Chief Kris Simon and President Jim Valentino would like to congratulate Tom and the four runners-up for their participation over these last 3 months:
1. Kat Cahill: I Hate Galaxy Girl
2. Dirk Manning: Hope
3. C. Edward Sellner: I’ll Fly Away
4. Kristopher Waddell: Challenger

But it doesn’t end here! Over the next several months we will be showing the entire process of creating a comic from plot to script, from layouts to finished art giving an insiders view into making a comic step-by-step, warts and all (another first?) with a lot of help from the artist, Franchesco! It should prove to be an educational experience for anyone interested in making comics.
Please join us at www.kris-korner.com in the ‘Who Wants to Create a Super Heroine’ forum and watch as the book progresses through its many stages.
Shadowline would like to thank all of those who submitted, voted, our final five and yes, even all those who nitpicked, griped and were otherwise rude…at least we got you talking and hopefully, thinking. And now, you’ll excuse us as we’re about to embark on an Incredible Journey!

WINNER NAMED IN SHADOWLINE’S WHO WANTS TO CREATE A SUPER-HEROINE CONTEST - NEWSARAMA

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DC UNIVERSE #0 - THE REAL COVER

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You’ve seen a teaser or two, but today, DC Comics has provided Newsarama with the real deal – the true cover to May’s DC Universe #0
Back in February DC’s Dan DiDio described the one-shot, saying:
“Originally, we were going to do Countdown to Final Crisis #0 - that’s what Countdown has been counting down to: 51 to 0 – 52 issues in total, a year’s worth of work. Ultimately though, what happened was that when we were looking at how #0 was being created, we realized that in collecting Countdown to Final Crisis, it would be hard to collect the #0 issue, because it would leave us on a cliffhanger at the end of the book. We felt that probably wasn’t the best way to end a book, so we decided to end all the Countdown stories with #1, and therefore make the #0 issue separate. That’s when it became Final Crisis #0.
“Then, Grant was involved in the writing of Final Crisis #0 of course, and Grant wanted Geoff to co-write it with him. But as we were building the book, we realized that the story wasn’t contained to the stories that were flowing into Final Crisis, involving New Gods and Monitors, but really touched upon so many major events going on throughout the DCU including: more hints to the Black Lanterns story, what’s coming up in the Batman storylines, Superman’s upcoming stories and Wonder Woman as well. Because it started to expand outside of Final Crisis, we repositioned the book one more time, and now it’s called DC Universe #0
“And since this is becoming more of a springboard to all of the DC Universe in 2008, we wanted to make this much more accessible to all of our fans and separate it out from Final Crisis and Countdown so it can really stand alone on its own feet. As such, it’s going to sell for 50 cents – 24 pages by Grant and Geoff, with art by a wide variety of folks including Ivan Reis, Carlos Pacheco, Tony Daniel, George Perez and Aaron Lopresti.”
Click on the thumbnail below for a larger version, or here for a ridiculously large version.

DC UNIVERSE #0 - THE REAL COVER - NEWSARAMA

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GEORGE PEREZ ON LEGION OF 3 WORLDS, II

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by Vaneta Rogers
After our interview with George Perez about this August’s five-issue mini-series Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, we talked with the artist about the teaser image he drew for the series that appeared in this week’s Action Comics #863.
We wanted to know the names of the characters we couldn’t quite identify in the image, and Perez loved verifying who’s who, even pulling out his reference comics to double-check the spelling of Ol-Vir’s name as we talked.
As a result, we decided to share an accurate list of characters with Newsarama readers. So for fans who have been guessing whose boots those are flying off the page or who that is in Shadow Lass’ trail of darkness, we’ve included everyone’s names in the image to the right.
And as we talked to Perez to confirm the names, we asked him about the image’s design and how long it took him to pull it together. So as an extra bit of commentary on the image, here’s what the artist had to say:

 

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The MASTER speaks!

GEORGE PEREZ ON LEGION OF 3 WORLDS, I

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by Vaneta Rogers
George Perez is no stranger to Crises.
Now DC has tapped him to help out with another Crisis by drawing the Legion of Super-Heroes — not just one of the teams, but three versions of them from three different universes — in this summer’s five-issue mini-series Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds.
Working with writer Geoff Johns, Perez will be drawing five oversized issues that readers can expect to be filled with characters in what Johns promises is an epic tale. Fans got a preview of the story and Perez’s take on the Legion — as well as a few surprise characters from the 21st century — in this week’s Action Comics #863, where Johns once again incorporated a comic book “trailer” to get readers excited about the upcoming project.
Johns and Perez last worked together on Infinite Crisis in 2005, when Perez did several pages to help out regular mini-series artist Phil Jimenez. And of course, as a veteran penciller in the comic book industry for over 30 years, Perez is also well-known for his role as penciller on Crisis of Infinite Earths.
So now that he’s involved in the Final Crisis, Newsarama talked to Perez about the Legion story he’s drawing, as well as his upcoming pages in DC Universe #0.

 

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LONG LIVE THE LEGION!!

GEOFF JOHNS: LEGION OF 3 WORLDS, II

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by Vaneta Rogers
If you were around yesterday, you know from the first part of our interview with DC writer Geoff Johns that he and artist George Perez will be uniting for a five-issue mini-series called Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds in August.
According to Johns, the epic storyline set in the 31st century is accessible for both long-time Legion fans and those people who have never read a Legion comic before – and it will have some sort of tie into the Final Crisis story that Grant Morrison is telling with artist J.G. Jones.
Today, we continue our talk with Johns about the story, but now we help out Legion of Super-Heroes fans by asking Johns to focus a little closer on his favorite Legion characters and explain why he thinks they’re important to the DCU. And as we tried to clear up some remaining questions about those Legion members who appeared in Countdown to Final Crisis, we found out Johns is interested in writing an ongoing Legion comic.

 

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SWEET MOTHER OF GOD!!!

My FAVORITE writer, teamed with my FAVORITE artist, doing a book about my FAVORITE super team since I was about 3 years old?  This is the GREATEST THING  EVAAAAAA!!!!!!!

GEOFF JOHNS: LEGION OF 3 WORLDS, I

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by Vaneta Rogers
We’ve been told that DC’s upcoming Final Crisis spans the past, present and future of the DC Universe.
With today’s Action Comics #863, part of that “future” has been previewed in a teaser image that confirms a team-up fans have been speculating about – writer Geoff Johns and artist George Perez will unite to tell the story of a multiverse-spanning 31st century battle in Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds beginning in August.
One of the two promised DC mini-series that will tie directly into Final Crisis, the Legion of 3 Worlds story will pull together the characters from three teams that have called themselves Legion of Super-Heroes during DC’s publishing history. And if we go by the teaser image, a slew of Perez-drawn Legion members will be fighting alongside Superman against a villainous threat in the future that will include a couple threats from the present as well – Superman-Prime and… is that Lex Luthor?
After wrapping up the Sinestro Corps War just a few months ago, it hasn’t taken Johns long to start writing another epic storyline, this one in five oversized issues that will tie into the Final Crisis story writer Grant Morrison is telling with artist J.G. Jones this summer. And it won’t surprise readers of Johns’ monthly comics that these issues will feature members of the original Legion, which Johns helped re-introduce to the DCU last year in a crossover between his Justice Society of America title with Justice League of America, then used in the current Action Comics story.
But three Legions? All together and all part of the DCU? What happened to the reboots where one Legion replaced the other? And for those readers who’ve never read any Legion stories, what do they have to know to understand this series? And what is Lex Luthor doing in that picture? Newsarama talked to Geoff Johns in a two-part interview to find out the answers to these questions and more…

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THE MAN WITH NO NAME: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLIER #1

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Dynamite has provided Newsarama with a first look at May’s Man With No Name: The Good, The Bad And The Uglier #1, the continuation of the iconic MGM franchise.

The solicitation for the issue reads:
DIAMOND ORDER CODE: MAR08 3588
Rating: TEEN+
Covers: Richard Isanove
Writer: CHRISTOS GAGE
Penciller/Inker: WELLINGTON DIAS
Colorist: Bruno Hang

From its iconic imagery, stars and score, MGM’s "Man with no Name" trilogy is a modern masterpiece of cinema! And now, the legend comes to life once again as the next new series from Dynamite!
Starring the ultimate anti-hero, and under the helm of writer Christos (New Avengers) Gage and artist Wellington Dias, MAN WITH NO NAME: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLIER #1 follows in the powerful wake of such Dynamite titles as The Lone Ranger and Zorro in its faithful and successful genre-defining Western comics! Plus: MAN WITH NO NAME: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLIER #1 follows the characters and plots of the film serving as a sequel to the critically acclaimed series!

Featuring series covers by Richard (Dark Tower) Isanove as well as a special 1-10 altenrate "zombie" cover by Arthur Suydam, Dynamite’s MAN WITH NO NAME: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLIER #1 is the next bullet in the chamber for 2008!