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Morrison/Quitely on Superman?

08:49 / 15.12.04

http://www.honnou.com/ryan/previews/previews.txt

WIZARD #162 IS OUR SUPER MEGA-COMICS SPECTACULAR! BETTER THAN ULTIMATE SUPERMAN FROM DC! Artist Frank Quitely (New X-Men) and writer Grant Morrison (JLA) join forces for their highest profile project to date. Hear from the new creative team that will take Superman to new heights in an exclusive Wizard Q&A interview.

Quitely creates a dazzling new Superman/Batman cover to this issue of Wizard.

Found at http://fanboyrampage.blogspot.com/

I wanted to believe in this more than the existence of god but dismissed it as a rumour, looking at the Wizard solicitation makes me think it really is true.

I can't stop cumming!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:55 / 15.12.04

That'll be The Gush then.

Hmmm, is this the Crisis-related out-of-continuity thing? I'd hope Grant's given up on the 'wouldn't it be cool if we rewound things so that Lois and Clark aren't married and she doesn't know he's Superman' idea.

13:15 / 15.12.04

WHAAAAT!?!?!?

This. Is. Amazing.

And yeah, I'd really like to see Grant & Frank do stories in "real," present-day continuity. Don't be afraid of Lois, Grant, she can be your friend!!!

13:19 / 15.12.04

I don't want Ultimate DC, I want regular DC with good stories and art!!!! Please don't 'reboot' or start over, Grant is smart enough that he can tell good stories with classic characters without rebooting (New X-Men, for example)!!!

15:48 / 15.12.04

that hot white noise is the sound of 100 thousand nerds dissolving...

in spunk. and we're right in the middle.

if that's proven true, let's first take a moment to rejoice... THEN - much later, please - bitch about the fucking continuity.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

16:42 / 15.12.04

Continuity be damned, this will be seventh heaven. Besides, due to Hypertime, aren't ALL DC stories "in continuity?"

As a side note, Wizard calls the project "Ultimate Superman?" Besides the general stupidity of that, I hope DC doesn't try to start an "Ultimate line" like Marvel. They should be too good for that.

17:27 / 15.12.04

Newsarama points out:

>> In an attempt to add some official note to the apparent confirmation of the rumor (as Wizard has advertised that “intentional disinformation” would be spread via the internet in regards to big DC announcements for 2005), Newsarama contacted DC Comics for comment, but a spokesperson for the publisher said they could not confirm that such a project is in the works.

>> Previously, in an August interview with Newsarama, Morrison had said "I'm also working on a 12-part series featuring one of DC's main characters. You'll hear more about that shortly, I imagine."

20:07 / 15.12.04

Will Quitely be able to do 12 issues in a row? I don’t know…

21:02 / 15.12.04

This could be The Greatest Rumor Ever. And also The Greatest Comic Ever, if it gets that far. I imagine it'd be amazing, like all of the Grant/Quitely collaborations.

21:22 / 15.12.04

This has been hinted for so long (and desired by GM) that I really hope it finally happens in whatever guise, even if it's an Elseworlds/Ultimate/Crisis reboot type story.
I just want to see GM let rip on Superman.
It's gotta be better than the last "creative push" for the Superman titles with Chuck Austen.
If it is in continuity then it'll be interesting to see how the other titles play off of whatever title GM and FQ get their mits on.

02:20 / 16.12.04

Hector's right, let's not bitch about continuity.

New X-Men was in continuity, but Marvel pretends it never happened.

DC will do the same if it is continuity.

09:56 / 16.12.04

Will Quitely be able to do 12 issues in a row? I don’t know…

Bi-monthly, he could.

10:11 / 16.12.04

I don't care if we don't see an issue until 2006 as long as it comes out every four weeks. I want it to ship regularly, and I can't wait. They should have at least six in the can before shipping the first one.

But that's me.

A greedy bitch.

Matthew Fluxington

15:52 / 16.12.04

New X-Men was in continuity, but Marvel pretends it never happened.

That is SUCH nonsense. Just because Marvel reversed the deaths of a couple popular characters which he never should have killed off in the first place doesn't mean that they've ignored NXM in continuity. In fact, it's just the opposite - more of Grant's run has become part of the X-canon than anything since the mid-80s.

16:27 / 16.12.04

I'm looking forward to this a lot. The only bad thing is waiting 4 weeks inbetween Grant's cliffhangers, that will really hurt.(I'm used to buying his older stuff in TPB's)

This (if it's true) should be mindblowing.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

17:01 / 16.12.04

I'm hoping that this is more intelligent New X-Men style sci-fi and less goofy JLA superheroics. No offense to those who like that sort of thing, but something as big as this should require Grant to put his the full of his brain into it.

Do we have any pictures yet?

18:06 / 16.12.04

There was a pic on the newsaram article reporting the rumor, but it may have been from JLA Earth 2 - they certainly didn't specifically say it was new Quitely Superman art.

And the plot thickens with the announcement on Newsarama that just broke minutes ago...

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QUITELY SIGNS TWO YEAR EXCLUSIVE WITH DC
Extending and enhancing his relationship with DC, the publisher has confirmed for Newsarama that artist Frank Quitely has signed a two-year exclusive contract, which will allow him to call the various imprints of DC home for his upcoming work.

“I've been offered an exclusive on a number of occasions in the past, but I've always been more interested in keeping my options open, but this time it looks like being on an exclusive is actually going to suit me,” Quitely told Newsarama when asked what went into his decision making process when DC made the offer.

As with other recent DC exclusives, Quitely credits VP Dan Didio with being both the deal-maker, as well as one of the main reasons he was attracted to DC’s offer. “Dan has been very flexible with the way he's worked out a deal for me that works for all of us -financially, creatively and schedule-wise.

Quitely would not say anything about the Superman rumors.

02:13 / 18.12.04

As I see it, Flux, the whole thing they've done with Xorn after the end of Grant's run, seems to be ignoring continuity. It was bad enough that Magneto was back before Morrison's run was over.

And the costumes and their reasons for them were ignored.

I think they're treating as a bad dream.

13:35 / 18.12.04

Quitely for two years? So that's what, three and a half comics?

16:21 / 18.12.04

12.

He's still finishing WE3, apparantly. If this is indeed true, we likely won't see it until the end of 2005.

Who cares?! It'll be AWESOME when it eventually comes out
.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

17:04 / 18.12.04

As I see it, Flux, the whole thing they've done with Xorn after the end of Grant's run, seems to be ignoring continuity. It was bad enough that Magneto was back before Morrison's run was over.

Oh, they happened...it's just that Chris Claremont spent issue after issues of talking heads making it so it wasn't what we thought it was, so that it HAPPENED, but we were all misled. Much like how John Byrne used to get rid of stories he didn't like be revealing that it was a robot Dr. Doom or that the Scarlet Witch was carzy and had lost control of her powers.

The best of these, however, was when Peter David turned the tables on Byrne:

In an issue of "The Thing", Byrne revealed that Lockjaw (the Inhuman's dog) was REALLY one of the Inhumans who had had a bad reaction to the Teragon mists by talking. Then, Peter David revealed it to be a practical joke by one of the other Inhumans throwing their voice to mess with poor ol' Ben Grimm. Byrne, predictably, went apeshit.

11:55 / 21.12.04

it's official, apparently:

ALL-STARS DC: SUPERMAN - MORRISON/QUITELY

subscribers of Wizard may have already gotten the issue with the juicy details.