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Though many pros have mastered the constant tweeting part, however, it seems like more and more actual comics end up delayed, possibly as a result, especially when they're the the main series of a Marvel super-mega-crossover event meant to spearhead a line-wide #1 issue relaunch event. Enter legendary comics creator Len Wein, who proved that he's the master of multitasking[...]

Mathew Klickstein writes, "As I like to say, we won – the geeks have inherited the earth!" Len Wein, editor of Alan Moore's Watchmen and creator of such comic book mainstays as Wolverine, Lucius Fox, Storm and Swamp Thing, amongst a rogue's gallery of others, says. Wein nevertheless tempers his triumphant pronouncement with the notion that though[...]

Writer Len Wein has returned to Swamp Thing recently, a character he co-created with Bernie Wrightson over 40 years ago With a couple issue done, the writer sat down with Tiffany Smith of DC All-Access to talk about how the character is and isn't different from when he started and why he's bringing in so[...]

Bill Finger is getting a credit on the new season of Gotham. But what about Wolverine and Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein? Dan Greenfield took a trip to the set of the show, and on the soundstage snapped this photo. As Dan notes, Len is responsible for the "whole Bruce/Selina/will they/won't they thing" and "the first to emphasize the[...]

In January, announced in USA Today, DC Comics are launching a number of new series, not what we previously referred to as "Big October". And as well as Swamp Thing, Len Wein is writing a new Metal Men series. They've turned up in Justice League (above) and related series We look forward to discovering if these will[...]

Swamp Thing is Len Wein's return to Alec Holland I explain what fans should do with Convergence as a whole Bottom line is even if choose not to read the main book, don't deny yourself the joy of a tie-in featuring your favorite hero or era! Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida,[...]

We'll be bringing you that panel live: The panelists included Mark Andreyko, Len Wein, Scott Lobdell, Peter Steigerwald, and Dan Jergens hosted by Jeff King.  The panel started with animations for DC All Access and an intro to Braniac's behavior and the trapped dome situation for DC heroes Ripples from this story will be reaching out[...]

It also features creators like: Bernie Wrightson, Alan Moore, Mike Ploog, Len Wein, Frank Brunner, Steve Gerber, Stephen R Bissette, Rick Veitch, Gerry Conway, Val Mayerik, Roy Thomas and more. Swampmen is a 192-page trade paperback with a Frank Cho cover and can be ordered now through Previews at your local comic shop It can be[...]

Expect more of this sort of thing. Edited by Dan DiDio and Marie Javins, we have reported a number of creators as being Tim Truman, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Grey, Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza, David Gallaher, Adam Beechen, Larry Hama, Marv Wolfman, Dan Abnett, Len Wein and Jeff Parker. But I am told to also expect a number of creators new to DC, with a background in webcomics[...]

X-editor Mike Marts gathered some legendary creators of the mutant books, including Rick Leonardi (New Mutants), Walter and Louise Simonson (X-Factor), Fabian Nicieza (Cable & Deadpool), Len Wein (Wolverine) and Uncanny X-Men legend Chris Claremont, introduced as "some guy". Marvel upcoming "No More Mutants" event was announced just moments before in the previous panel, but it[...]

Though he still does the cover. And instead of Aaron Kuder, Action Comics #35 will also have artist Scott Kolins as well as Vincente Cifuentes, and the above new cover. Elektra #7 will have art by Alex Sanchez, not Michael Del Mundo. The Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration #1 was solicited with contributions from  Bruce Timm, James Robinson, Stan Lee, Tom Defalco, Len[...]

Watkins, and Len Wein; plus Charlotte Fullerton McDuffie and Matt Wayne. It's unclear from the announcement whether the award is being given out at the event on the 27th or if we'll just learn the details of it McDuffie was a brilliant and talented man that I got to know only briefly one weekend… an award named in[...]

5: DEADLINE HC Written by GAIL SIMONE and MARGUERITE BENNETT Art by ROBERT GILL, FERNANDO PASARIN and JONATHAN GLAPION Cover by ALEX GARNER On sale DECEMBER 17 • 232 pg, FC, $24.99 US It's a hazardous reunion between Batgirl and the former Court of Owls assassin Strix as they face off against the lethal new threat known as Silver –[...]

Script by Len Wein, artwork by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Joe Prado, and cover by Alex Ross. Coming November 2014. Spinning out of the DC Digital panel is news of Batman '66: The Lost Episode, based on a story that Harlan Ellison wrote for the original show that was never produced Script by Len Wein, artwork[...]

By Jared Cornelius You may have been distracted last week by the 4th of July holiday, World Cup Soccer, or your pesky family but while you were ignoring the internet a minor firestorm broke out around Rick Remender and his current incarnation of Captain America.  In his current run on the series, perennial Cap villain, Arnim Zola, trapped Steve in Dimension Z where[...]

Bleeding Cool ran a report on the cameo of Chris Claremont and Len Wein in the X-Men: Days Of Future Past movie. But there was no sign of the co-writer and artist of the story that inspired the movie, John Byrne. So on the Byrne Forum, with a link to our original story, he was asked… Was he upset[...]

The original art for the final page of Incredible Hulk #180, which features the first published appearance of Wolverine, has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $657,250. This 1974 Marvel comics page was drawn by Herb Trimpe, inked by Jack Abel, and scripted by Len Wein  Of historical interest, Wolverine's pose in that final introductory panel[...]

Not yet. But two of the members giving him that grilling see rather familiar. That's because one of them is Len Wein, co-creator of Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and the man who gave new birth to the X-Men in the seventies, writing Giant Size-X-Men #1 And the other is Chris Claremont, who took over from Wein, the writer[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Handley DC Comics’ decision, in 2011, to cancel all existing series and launch 52 new titles—among them a reboot of

In case anyone missed Taylor Ramsey's interview the other day, Len Wein talked about exactly what happened with the Before Watchmen Epilogue that DC Comics withdrew from their schedules, but also the reasons he left the Crimson Corsair back up strip intended to run through the back of all the Before Watchmen comics but in[...]

Taylor Ramsey writes for Bleeding Cool. At this year's C2E2 I had the opportunity to sit down with comic industry legend, Len Wein It was on the last day of the show and I was tired and a bit frazzled, but Mr Wein showed no sign of wanting to slow down or move away from fans[...]

Watchmen — before, during and after, all in one blog post: Tomorrow, DC Comics published Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #5 by Len Wein and Jae Lee Wein was one of the three editors of the original Watchmen, with Dick Giordano and Barbara Kesel also editing the book for periods of time Because Wein resigned over the ending. Most-Read[...]

Tomorrow, DC Comics publish Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #5 by Len Wein and Jae Lee Wein was one of the three editors of the original Watchmen, with Dick Giordano and Barbara Kesel also editing the book for periods of time Because Wein resigned over the ending. Len Wein has spoken out about his unhappiness over it in[...]

We are getting seriously close to Before Watchmen: Multi-Legged Chicken Waitress here… DC Comics have announced a new Before Watchmen comic concentrated on Dollar Bill, the bank-sponsored superhero of the Minutemen, who died during a bank robbery when his cape was caught in a revolving door. Did I just spoil the end? MTV reports the comic will be[...]

So we've all read the Daily Beast interview by now, right? The original Watchmen made quite a lot of the rectangles and circles. The nine panel grid,

MTV Geek clipped the thoughts of  number of Before Watchmen creators for their opinions on the Alan Moore controversy concerning DC's decision to publish a Watchmen prequel series of series. Len Wein: "I am sorry that Alan is disappointed in the project being done I think Alan has developed a mindset over the years…that is really his[...]

40 pages for $1.49, consider this a very cheap Kickstarter, a merging of print and digital, a look to the future, using the a medium of the past. It also very handily has an interview with Len Wein about Before Watchmen, putting it into context with the original comic that Wein edited much of, as well[...]

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[...]

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[...]

How does one get hired for such a position? Len Wein and Marv Wolfman asked me to do research for them by reading through all the comics relating to DC Universe continuity in the DC library They knew me through the letters I'd written to letter columns in comics they wrote (such as Marv's Tomb of[...]