The Week at The Great Curve

Welcome to the first installment of “The Week at The Great Curve.” Taking a nod from Tom Spurgeon over at Comicsreporter.com, we’ll now be bringing you the 411 on the biggest stories of the last week. This way, if any number of circumstances (i.e. computer viruses, work loads, random people with the mutant ability to change reality going mad over the course of an issue or two and causing you to find yourself in a new series duking it out in the dark in a crowded room of absurdly powerful super villains for 20 pages, etc.) caused you to miss the previous week’s hoopla, you’ll have this handy cheat sheet to go by and refresh your “hip to the know” status in the comic book industry. So without further adieu, let’s travel back in time to a Sunday not so long ago—January 9.

The week kicked off with Jeph Loeb talking to CBR about his upcoming Supergirl series and Newsarama reporting that work Will Eisner completed on the Spirit/Escapist crossover will appear in April’s issue of Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist. Both projects look to be read worthy.

Contests were abound as John Byrne issued a challenge to fans to complete his unfinished Giant-Size Fantastic Four #1, and Newsarama, Oni, and Mike Hawthorne combined forces to offer some lucky winner the chance to be drawn into Hysteria V. 2.

Tom Fowler was outed as the new penciler for Green Arrow; and Peter David was at long last confirmed to writing Incredible Hulk for the foreseeable future. I personally am glad that all the crazy speculation and crossed signals have finally been silenced.

In another giant leap for the The Great Curve, Livejournal users can now add updates to their friends list. Unfortunately, the updates will not give readers further glimpses into Alex and T.J.’s bizarre love triangles, gossip sessions, and ogling over Lindsay Lohan. Those entries are still being posted as “private.”

The first glimpses of Frank Cho’s work on Shanna: the She-Devil was posted. More revelations were then to follow as Marvel released a cover shot of the upcoming reappearance of Darkhawk.

And then, just in case you were enjoying all of this, Dan Jolley was announced to be off of Bloodhound and Firestorm. But hey, at least we were all treated T.J.’s awesome first post in his new “Kickin It Old School” series. God bless the Silver Age and all that it continues to stand for.

And that, Curve Cadets, was the comic book world for the week of January 9.