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Warner Bros. reboots DC Comics in bid to rival Marvel on big screen

Warner Bros. is hoping to bring some Harry Potter magic to its DC Comics brand.

Sick of being second banana to comic book competitor Marvel Entertainment in the movie world, the studio has brought DC in-house and appointed Diane Nelson, a brand management executive who has overseen the Harry Potter franchise since 2000 to run the unit.

Along with the move, Warner Bros. is changing DC Comics' corporate name to mirror that of its rival. The division will now be known as DC Entertainment.

While Warner's move has been long rumored in Hollywood, it comes just a week after Walt Disney Co. agreed to acquire Marvel for $4 billion...

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The Gil Kane Punch of the Week

Family Guy - premiere com referência ao multiverso da DC Comics

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A favourite page from a classic team:

First the layout by Gil Kane.
After Kane pencilled the page, it was inked by (the master) Wally Wood:

Green Lantern, Books 4 and 5: The Sinestro Corps War. Vol. 1 and 2 (13, 16)

Green Lantern, Book 4: The Sinestro Corps War. Vol. 1 and Green Lantern, Book 5: The Sinestro Corps War. Vol. 2 by Geoff Johns (2008, DC Comics). Not bad, as far as Super Hero Comics Mega Events go. Sinestro and his creation of a new Lantern team with a new color is a creative concept and he has truly vile villains as team members. Some of the biggest guns in the DC Universe. Having not been a Green Lantern reader, though, since The Green Lantern Corps book of the 80s, I didn't have much connection to the current crop of characters nor why I should care. The Hal Jordan stuff and how he is either liked or disliked by his teammates was well played and the big reveal of the story was actually meaningful. Some of the art is really spectacular as well.

It made me want to read other Lantern books and got me excited for the current big Lantern event - Blackest Night - so I've gotta recommend it.

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Bayou (19)

Bayou by Jeremy Love (Zuda, 2009). I first read bits of Bayou online in 2007, I believe. Zuda is DC Comics' online imprint. It's part competition (readers vote on their favorite comics and those are the ones that continue to be published) and part forward thinking. Bayou -- a story I couldn't imagine being printed by one of the big two (or three) without a big name (like Kyle Baker attached to it) was the first to be released by Zuda. These comics online often involve animation and added ambiance and atmosphere that you don't get from ink and paper.

For me, however, ink and paper is how I like it and Bayou, while I enjoyed the pieces I read online, didn't pack nearly the wallop online that it does as a collection. The protagonist is a young girl named Lee living somewhere below the Mason-Dixon Line in the early part of last century -- a world wrought with dangers for black folks both real and mystical. And when things go very wrong for her and her father, she must brave the mystical to save the day in the real world.

Heady stuff.

Considering how much I've been thinking about race over the past week ("Skip" Gates got arrested and President Obama reacted as a black man rather than as the post-racial Leader of the Free World), the idea of lynched young boys whose souls become fairies, blues singing bog monsters, and a little black girl who, like Alice or Dorothy, ends up in a fantastical world made up of incredible creatures that represent all of the scary things in her real world...well, that just kind of rules.

I can't wait for Volume 2 to see how deep this swamp bog goes.

Recommended.

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Last daughter of Krypton

I honestly didn't know how this was going turn out - I thought the markers would be too thick for what I wanted to do.