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Warner Buy Majority Stake In Arkham Asylum Developer – Create BatSynergy!
Warner Bros have bought 68.4% of London-based video game developer Rocksteady Studios, best known for last year's critical and commercial success, Batman: Arkham Asylum. Warner already have a number of investments in the gaming sector but it's hard not to read into this some kind of synergy with the DC Entertainment announcements of late, and the[...]
Sunday Runaround – Mark Millar Takes On Not_Mark_Millar
StoreWatch: As part of a profile on success in the face of recession on Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, LA in The Daily News, Earth -2 gets mentioned, as well as their partnership with a certain Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, Geoff Johns. At Earth-2 Comics & Collectibles next door, owners Jud Meyers and Carr D'Angelo[...]
Friday Runaround – The Day After DC Did Things
DCWatch: So, yesterday Diane Nelson And The DC High Five spoke to all sorts of people. Dan DiDio, Jim Lee, Geoff Johns spoke to CBR extensively early in the day and Newsarama shortly afterwards Dan, Geoff and Jim spoke to IGN and Techland and Diane Nelson spoke to Heidi MacDonald as did MTV Splashpage Nothing from[...]
Talking About DC Comics And Stuff Like That
And we should start seeing evidence of this as soon as this summer. Certainly DC, by putting the most successful of its creative talent, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, at the top of the company, is a sign that there must be new assumptions, new expectations and a new approach to creating comics – and all[...]
DC Announces New Publisher – All Five Of Them!
Geoff Johns will be Chief Creative Officer And  John Rood, and Patrick Caldon will be Executive Partners. Diane Nelson gives a rationale and a job description for each of them; Jim Lee – one of the top artists and creators in the business But he is also an astonishingly smart and experienced businessman[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 15th February 2010
Marvel editor Tim Quinn's tale of being reunited with a childhood comic books decades, and thousands of miles away. So what else has been happening on the Cool this week? The Captain America #602 story kicked off here before becoming big news, big comment and big business all over the place… and Boom! look like they hope[...]
Brightest Day "Not Light And Brighty" – Geoff Johns
In a post on DC Source, showing an Aquaman cover to Brightest Day, a live Aquaman looking at the reflection of his Blackest Night incarnation, Geoff Johns stated; 'Brightest Day' is about second chances I think it's been obvious from day one that there are major plans for the heroes and villains from Aquaman to take[...]
Grant Morrison's Wonder Woman Too Weird For The DCU?
Now it seems Grant Morrison is part and parcel of the DC Universe, his vision for Batman and other characters married with Geoff Johns', twin engines for the DCU jumbo jet. Well it seems there's been a small parachute jump. It seems that Wonder Woman run that Grant Morrison and the yet-unnamed-currently-Marvel exclusive artist are planning has[...]
DC/Marvel Confluence: Heroic Age Vs Brightest Day
To follow Blackest Night, we're getting the Brightest Day project, announced on The Source. A biweekly, 26-issue crossover starting with #0 by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi, with Fernando Pasarin drawing #0. I'm calling it light'n'brighty comics I do hope it will catch on. Marvel kill Captain America, let his sidekick take over, sent the character in[...]
The Tenth Annual Rumour Awards – SCOOP OF THE YEAR
And possible future for DC Comics including a possibkle Justice League series by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee Of course catching scam artist Josh Hoopes in the act was very satisfying, especially getting him on tape. But the biggest story, not seen as prominent at the time, was the scoop that Diane Nelson was taking over[...]
Geoff Johns Gets Tattooed… On Someone
As when a comics fan at the Isotope comics store decided to make his Geoff Johns signature a little more permanent… Has anyone every tried to CGC slab a thigh before? It's not uncommon to get a body part signed Arms, breasts, forehead, it's certainly been done It's a fun, temporary reaction to getting things like[...]