I think I’m going to start blogging about comics a bit more this year. I’m not going to comment on every bit of news that comes my way, just things that I find pretty interesting, as a mark for the future, what to keep an eye out for etc. So lets have a look at what’s going on in the comic book world of late.

DC All-Stars. What a shit name. I mean if the Ultimate line with it’s butt-ugly trade dress design and name wasn’t bad enough, I can’t think how rubbish the design for this series of books is going to be. That being said, the talent attached to these projects is pretty amazing.

So Jim Lee is going to be drawing while Frank Miller will be writing. I remember when I was reading Deathblow back in the early 90s Miller lashed out at Lee for apeing his style of Sin City for that book, and now they’re working together on what is going to be the best selling comic book in the english speaking world for the year 2005. Man how things change.

Am I excited about this news? Not really sure. When I first heard about it I was really loving it, Superman for 12 issues by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, 12 issues of Batman by Jim Lee and Frank Miller, what’s not to get excited about. Whatever these gentlemen touch generally turns to gold. They’ve all contributed to some fantastic stories in the past, of exceptional quality.

Then there’s that rumour that Adam Hughes is going to be involved with the Wonder Woman revamp, seriously stupendous news for me as Adam is one of my absolute favourite illustrators ever.

Are these characters done and dusted, old and tattered? Hardly. Two of my favorite comics 2004 were Superman books. I haven’t read Superman in 10 years. I bought the books based on the creators involved, and they absolutely blew me away. I only buy my books in collected format, I might have to bend the rules just this once so that I don’t get the story ruined by pricks on the internet that can’t keep their mouths shut.

As of Monday and every Monday I’ll be having a graphic novel review of the week. Sometimes it will of books that came out that week, other times it will be with regards to books I read a while back and are on my shelf. The first review will be of the Ultimates, as I just finished reading Volume 1 of that book.