New Warriors: Defiant TP

The first TP of Kevin Grevioux’s New Warriors relaunch.

Also this week:
Infinity Inc #5
Beyond TP. Written by McDuffie.
Nextwave V2 TP
The 99 #4

Two more weeks to go for submissions to the 2008 Glyph Comics Awards; if you want your book in the running, email me at rich.watson@gmail.com before it’s too late. In the meantime, check out this interview I did with Pam about the GCAs.

For those of you in the NYC area, Comic Book Club, the live comics talk show here in the city, will have Kyle Baker as a guest tomorrow night at 8PM. Details:

Tickets: $5
Online: ThePIT-NYC.com
Phone: 1-800-838-3006
Questions? 212-563-7488

The Peoples Improv Theater
154 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
Between 6th and 7th Aves.

Marlon Wayans joins the cast of GI Joe.

Unsolicited plug: Now that it’s the new year, I’ve got my Keith Knight 2008 K Chronicles Calendar on my wall and I’m very happy. Got it from him at San Diego. I, naturally, highly recommend it for your wall if you don’t have one already. (The calendar, that is, not the wall.)

Off-topic, but I feel I gotta say something about it since everyone else is: the “One More Day” arc of the Spider-Man titles is over and it has ended the way everyone feared it would. I gotta agree with Fandom Assembled on this one: I believe Joe Quesada’s made a big mistake. Even if you buy his argument that Spider-Man’s appeal is stronger as a single man, there are better ways to dissolve his marriage to Mary Jane than what we got – ways that don’t stretch credibility to the breaking point and call into question events from twenty years ago (at least). And if what JM Straczynski said is true – that Quesada justified all the changes by saying “It’s magic; we don’t need to explain it” – well, that’s just insulting to the reader’s intelligence.

The new status quo begins with the new arc “Brand New Day,” starting this week (as Amazing Spider-Man now ships thrice monthly). Lot of fans around the net saying they won’t buy it. They’ve talked boycott before. We’ll see how much of a hit ASM takes (if any), but I doubt it’ll be much. We fans are ultimately creatures of habit, and more often than not, we like our habits too much to break them.