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Thursday Runaround – Run Hero Run

XWatch: Jane Goldman is to write X-Men: First Class. Her husband Jonathan Ross is in geek heaven.

CosPlayWatch: This Sunday, Brighton beach will be cosplay city as the great Heroes Run takes place again, people of all shapes and sizes dressed up as superheroes, running to raise money for the charity Passing It On. Last year they set the world record for a superhero gathering at 554. Later that year, another chairity beat it by topping a thousand. Can Brighton regain the record?

Can anyone make it down and take photos? Fancy signing up yourself?

ThisWeekComicsWatch: Justice League Generation Lost: See Marvel? No Mephisto required. Return Of Bruce Wayne : You've Got A Time Machine, Superman! Just go back an hour or so! Dark Avengers: Oh come on. One panel where Bullseye has Cap's shield? You could make a whole mini-series. Siege: You know the ending without reading it.The Sentry: Fallen Sun: Strangely moving memories for a character that never was. Green Hornet Strikes: Far less union agitation content than I was expecting. Kato: Far less Burt Kwok content than I was expecting. Amazing Spider-Man: Chris Bachalo draws good Lizard neck. Very good Lizard neck.

MoneyWatch: Neil Gaiman addresses $45,000Gate

Well, that seemed fairly simple. They'd already booked a number of other authors. They had the money sitting there and were happy to pay me my rack rate. Either they gave the money to me or it went away – it couldn't be used for anything else. And, most importantly, the dates worked. Another week and I would have had to say no, as I would have been away writing. But I got in from Chicago that morning. I said yes.

I figure money like that, sort of out-of-the-blue windfall money, is best used for Good Deeds, so I let a couple of small and needy charities (one doing social work, the other library/book based) know that I would be passing the money on to them, after agents had taken their commission, and did not think twice about it.

2000ADWatch: Paul Rainey writes;

In November 2006, after an impetuous ill-thought out bid on eBay, I won the first 1188 programmes of 2000 AD… So, I started the 2000 AD Prog Slog Blog where I review every other issue of the Galaxy's greatest comic and many of it's associated publications… the blog is due to come to it's intended conclusion this weekend.

PublisherWatch: Joe Casey on writing Superman/Batman.

I just wanted to write a cool story with two massive super-icons. No real exploration involved, just writing on instinct. I've been around way too long to allow myself to get really invested in a situation like this, where the deck is so often stacked against you, creatively-speaking. And yet, even with that mindset, the story still got fucked with (as anyone who bothered to read the final issue of the arc could attest to…for the record, I did write a script for the entire issue. But, in terms of what actually saw print, I wrote pages 1-11 and most of the final page).

And on unsuccessfully pitching Justice League Academy

the fact that DC got snaked on a name that, as far as I'm concerned, should be theirs by right…I mean, come on! Obviously, I got the "Academy" part of the name from the Legion Academy and the fact that it worked as a "JLA" acronym was just too perfect. This was a DC book that DC can't do now because they moved too slow. When shit like this happens, they should be fuckin' embarrassed. Now, that might all be changing with the new regime…I hope so, anyway…but we'll have to see, won't we?

ColleenWatch: Last week I ran audio from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival panels. Including the webcomics panel. In which Spike, creator of Templar, Arizona claimed that Colleen Doran had restarted A Distant Soil five times because of insecurity. (Around 36:00 in)

Colleen responded, denying the claim and listing the circumstances involved, regarding serious publisher issues. Like them closing down and trying to steal her work. Susan McLoughlin posts in response

It sounds like that guy was just talking out of his ass, probably because he's intimidated by your obvious talent and intelligence.

By the way, here's the guy in question.

BrazilWatch: Twin creators Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá are coming to London as part of a Brazilian Literature festival, holding court at the South Bank Centre in July. Book tickets here…

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