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JMS Goes Legendary
J. Michael Straczynski is a busy fellow these days. First we heard about the return of Joe's Comics at Image, and now there's this: Legendary Comics is
So… What Will Before Watchmen Actually Be Like?
Gorgeous, beautiful, sensational are words that have reached me. Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner's Silk Spectre has received the most praise, as has Darwyn's Minutemen. I'm told that Silk Spectre sticks to the nine panel grid of Watchmen but a number of the books don't. I'm told that JMS's version of the Comedian may be rather controversial in[...]
Len Wein And JMS Talk Before… And After Watchmen
As well as talking about the ins and out of their new Watchmen books, MTV Geek asked Len Wein and Joe Michael Straczynski about the possibility of more Watchmen to follow them. LW: Absolutely, like any great characters, there's always more to tell. JMS: I think what this project has shown, more than anything else, is that[...]
Numbercrunching Those Amazing Spider-Man Statistics
Where JMS seemed to claim that his Spider-Man comics sold better than current Spider-Man comics, Steve Wacker went to bat for his team, using a bat made out of web fluid, that kind of tools that Spider-Man used to make. The initial Facebook thread has been deleted, but another has been started, in which JMS and[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: The Amazing Sales Of JMS
 There's bound to be much more discussion on this issue in the coming week, it'd be interesting to see more data as well. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Fanboy Rampage: JMS Vs Steve Wacker (UPDATE – Now With Added Waid And Slott)  Joe Michael Straczynski posted on an open Facebook page, a link to the image above with the[...]
Fanboy Rampage: JMS Vs Steve Wacker (UPDATE – Now With Added Waid And Slott)
Just sayin' Steve Wacker, current editor of the Spider-Man comics replied; An excellent post, JMS Out of context, out of date and full of out-of-the-blue mean. Everyone on ASM currently respects your years on the book (and as editor I've said so many times in interviews and in the letter column), but seriously this is about as creepy[...]
Andy Kubert To Draw Watchmen 2 (UPDATE)
Taking one of the principle characters from the series and telling a pre-Watchmen tale. But I understand he may not be the only Kubert getting involved with this. Other people previously named include Darwyn Cooke (as the equivalent of mini-series showrunner), JMS, John Higgins and JG Jones Oh, and Dave Gibbons. DC, as ever these days, declined[...]
Squirrelling Out Details On Watchmen 2
That names mentioned included Dave Gibbons, John Higgins, Darwyn Cooke, JMS, JG Jones, Andy Kubert and more. Indeed I am now told that there will be four Watchmen miniseries, all prequels Working off an over-arching uber-plot by Darwyn, who will be writing and drawing on aa book or two. I believe the phrase I'm looking for is[...]
The Return Of Watchmen 2
Darwyn Cooke's name is at the very top, linked to drawing two mini-series and writing another, followed by the likes of JMS, JG Jones, Andy Kubert and Brian Azzarello Whether or not they have been approached, I don't know, and no one's talking, but it gives you an idea of the scale I would also[...]
JMS On Marko Djurdjevic, Toilet Paper And Earth One
Go get 'em, Marko! JMS also let us know that he has handed in the final pages for Superman: Earth One Vol 2 On digital toilet paper, obviously. Joe Michael Straczynski has posted on Facebook his response to the reportage of Thursday night's Team Spirit panel at Fan Expo Toronto And the words of a certain[...]
The Secret Origins Of The DC Relaunch
But, at the time, though pushed for by Dan DiDio and others, it was nixed by then-publisher Paul Levitz. Which does seem to fit in with Joe Michael Straczynski's account of a conversation with Dan DiDio about the relaunch this time – and JMS does stress later, he meant to say "relaunch" rather than "reboot". When Dan[...]
Stan, Joe, Walt And The Thunder God
Photo by Luigi Novi. Spoilers of sorts for the Thor movie, I guess. We're talking cameos. But isn't it more fun to know where to look for people rather
The Twelve Is Back. Probably.
The Twelve was a twelve-issue series from Marvel that took classic Golden Age Marvel superheroes and recast them in the modern day, basically what if a bunch of Captain Americas from the dregs of World War II had all woken up now… By J Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston, the series was warmly received but went[...]
JMS To Leave Thor
Thor has been one of Marvel's surprise performing titles over the last couple of years, ascribed principally to the writing of Babylon 5, Changeling and Amazing Spider-Man's Joe Michael Straczynski on the title. This was a real turn around for the book, a title that had languished and been cancelled, put on hold for a significant[...]