THE TWELVE: READING THE TEA LEAVES ON GA MASTERWORKS
Posted at 10:50 PM by gormuu

CBR has an interesting INTERVIEW with Marvel editor Tom Brevoort about the upcoming twelve-issue limited series by writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Chris Weston, appropriately titled The Twelve, that dusts off some of the most obscure Timely characters of all time:

"As readers may have guessed, the title "The Twelve" refers to the cast of characters in the series. "Every single one of the characters who make up the Twelve is a pre-existing actual 1940s Timely Comics character--though most of them appeared in only a few scattered stories back in the Golden Age," Brevoort explained. The twelve characters are Captain Wonder, Dynamic Man, Electro the Marvel of the Age, Rockman, Mister E, Mastermind Excello, the Blue Blade, the Phantom Reporter, the Laughing Mask, the Witness, the Fiery Mask, and the Golden Age Black Widow."

Read the interview for the full scoop on the new series, which is scheduled to bow in January '08, but since most of these characters hail from such titles as Daring Mystery and Mystic Comics, perhaps we have moved that much closer to seeing those oddball anthologies represented in GA Masterworks?

To discuss this topic, check out THIS THREAD at the Marvel Forum!

SDCC: MATT WAGNER ON GRENDEL REPRINTS
Posted at 7:20 PM by gormuu

Newsarama covered the SDCC's Grendel panel featuring Matt Wagner. He discussed his feelings about the work covered in the recent GRENDEL ARCHIVE HC, and there was also news about Grendel plans for the coming year:

"Wagner pointed out Grendel Archives, which collected and reprinted for the first time the original Hunter Rose stories from Comico Primer. Again addressing the rumors that Wagner never sought to reprint the material prior to this because he was embarrassed by it, the creator said that he's fully accepted that it was his older world, and he was no more ashamed of it as he would be ashamed that he was once seven years old.....

More Grendel projects are coming, both Wagner and Schutz added, which will include collections of Batman/Grendel (both in trade and hardcover format) before the end of the year, collections of God and the Devil, Devil's Quest (slim hardcover) and Devil's Reign...."

SDCC: MARSHAL LAW OMNIBUS ANNOUNCED BY TOP SHELF
Posted at 5:00 PM by gormuu

Per COMICS ALLIANCE:

"....the biggest scoop of the night came when Chris shared with us the exclusive news that Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill's criminally out-of-print Marshal Law is set to return ... and his new home is Top Shelf.....

Mills and O'Neill have inked a deal with Top Shelf and Chris and Brett are cooking up a sure-to-be-gorgeous omnibus edition to ensure that the title will return in style."

Congrats to Brett Warnock and the fine folks at Top Shelf for landing this one!

SDCC: PAUL POPE'S THB COLLECTED
Posted at 2:30 PM by gormuu

For general information on the SDCC, keep up with Newsarama's Chris Arrant through THIS THREAD that will feature timely updates throughout the con. One of his recent posts includes the following nugget:

"Paul Pope's seminal ongoing series THB will be collected in a four-volume set from First Second Books. The long-running but infrequent self-published series served as the introduction of Paul Pope to the comics world, and Pope has continued to publish issues throughout his career.

The First Second Book collection will be entitled Total THB, and will be released as a four volume set coming it at over 1200 pages. It is scheduled to be released in 2009, with an oversize Deluxe Collectors edition in black & white is also planned."

SDCC: HEROES LANDS AT DC, ONLINE COMICS COLLECTED
Posted at 2:30 PM by gormuu

More from Newsarama's Chris Arrant:

"Yesterday, Newsarama.com got the story of DC Comics lining up to publish a collected edition of the Heroes comic book material which had been presented on NBC.com. To date, there have been 43 different stories with art by a variety of artistic heavyweights, and industry speculation that it was only a matter of time before someone picked up the publishing rights.

DC will be publishing this under their Wildstorm imprint, which has recently become the de-facto home for DC's licensed comic titles as the publisher expands into that area."

NEWS FROM SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
Posted at 11:20 AM by gormuu

I won't be attending this year's San Diego Comic-Con, so unlike last year, this site won't be directly reporting on all the collected editions news that will come from the SDCC. Throughout the rest of the weekend, though, I will be posting links to news items that come out of the Con from sites like Newsarama. As you can see from the two items below, there's been some interesting news that has already started to bubble up from the con floor!

For news entries from the SDCC, I'll pull out info related to collected editions news with a link that cites the original article. There's going to be TONS of news coming out of San Diego, and I'll be doing my best to cull all the collected editions news out for you.

SDCC: INDIANA JONES REPRINTS FROM DARK HORSE
Posted at 11:20 AM by gormuu

Per NEWSARAMA:

"In February 2008, Dark Horse Comics will publish the first of two Indiana Jones Omnibuses collecting Dark Horse's previous entries in the saga. Then April sees the release of volume one of Indiana Jones Adventures—a digest-sized graphic novel designed for the enjoyment of young readers as well as adults. The Indiana Jones Adventures volumes and the Omnibuses will continue on a quarterly basis—including Omnibuses for the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the original Marvel run of Indiana Jones comics."

SDCC: CREEPY/EERIE REPRINTS FROM DARK HORSE
Posted at 11:20 AM by gormuu

Per NEWSARAMA:

"The magazines that gave a whole generation the shivers are back. Creepy and Eerie were the definitive horror and sci-fi comics of the 1960s and flourished up until the early 1980s. Dark Horse Comics has entered into an agreement with New Comic Company to create archive editions of this classic material, as well as launch new Creepy and Eerie comics for modern horror fans.....

New efforts are expected to debut this fall with the classic tales being prepared for the hardcover Dark Horse Archive series....."