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Morrison and Jim Lee on WildCATs

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17:32 / 04.06.06

comicbookresources sez:

>> Lee’s return to "Wildcats" with writer Grant Morrison is slated for September. Orginally "All Star Batman and Robin" was only supposed to be a six-issue arc, finished in time for Lee to begin work on "Wildcats," but things did quite work out that way.

“When we’re still in the car [in Batman] in issue four,” said Lee, “ I figured that it wasn’t going to be just six issues.”

Still, Lee is confident hat the two book’s bimonthly
schedule will allow him to get it all done. Well, sort of confident, anyway.
“'Wildcats' is bimonthly, so now I get to be late on two books” joked Lee.

14:27 / 13.06.06

Not sure if anyone's posted this yet. DC's released the cover to issue one over at HERE.

The solicitation reads:
WILDCATS: WORLDSTORM #1
Written by Grant Morrison
Art and cover by Jim Lee & Scott Williams
Variant cover by A Todd McFarlane & Jim Lee
Variant cover B by Jim Lee
Jim Lee makes his triumphant return to Wildcats, and he’s bringing along an impressive new collaborator: superstar writer Grant Morrison! The man who redefined the JLA and Superman — and created groundbreaking works The Invisibles and WE3 — now brings his considerable talents to the Wildcats.
In the aftermath of the events in Captain Atom: ARMAGEDDON, the WildStorm Universe has undergone a shift that will affect characters big and small. This first issue will reintroduce the Wildcats you know and love — but how will they differ? Be here in September to see the star-studded premiere of the all-new, all-fantastic WILDCATS! Retailers please note: This issue will be available with two variant covers. Please see order form for details. For a signed edition please see the Dynamic Forces section of Previews.
On sale September 6 € 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

Is it just me, or wasn't this issue originally supposed to ship in August? And then Morrison's Authority would ship in September, the two books trading months on a bimonthly schedule? ...I think I read that somewhere...

Keith, like a scientist

15:27 / 13.06.06

cool cover.

i'm totally excited for this book, actually. As a geeky guilty pleasure fan of the Lee's original 4 issue series, as well as the fantastic Joe Casey years, it will be cool to see how Morrison meshes these two things in his own way.

also...I haven't seen any information on GM + Authority... I know it's been mentioned, but is there actually an official announcement/artist/date?

16:50 / 13.06.06

I thought the artist was Gene Ha (the book will probably be bi-monthly; Ha is not a fast artist and has never been on a monthly book as far as I know...he usually only does graphic novels/guest pieces in books) and there was some preview art somewhere. As for an announced date for Morrison's AUTHORITY, I don't think there's been one.

Essential Dazzler

16:55 / 13.06.06

Aren't they both bi-monthly, shipping alternate months? If that is the case I'd guess October for The Authority.

18:31 / 23.07.06

some cool new info on WILDC.A.T.S over at Newsarama's and CBR's Wildstorm panel reports.

also: STORMWATCH's back and that Xorn retcon.

15:54 / 24.07.06

Just for the record, I was the fan who asked the reboot question. I'm not sure I'm all that happy with the answer, but *shrug*.

00:17 / 03.10.06

LYING IN THE GUTTERS' got pencils for # 1, page 8.

Keith, like a scientist

16:15 / 03.10.06

looks like we are getting Authority #1 and Wildcats #1 on the same day now, October 18th.

16:20 / 03.10.06

A big mozzer month then, with Seven Soldiers due a week later.

I've never read any of the Wildstorm books apart from planetary, and I'm weary of picking these up even if my favourite writer is on them. What with Jim Lee turning in three books a year, I do not have high hopes for Wildcats at all, although I have more confidence that Gene Ha will be able to keep up the pace to keep the Authority out on time.

But I've never read these books, what am I missing? What should I expect, and should I buy these in monthlies, or wait for the trades (whenever that will be)?

23:30 / 03.10.06

expect a lot of kicking, punching, exploding, bruisin', smarttalkin' and world-savin' with some politics as gravvy.

with Moz on board, all of that with better high-concepts and dialogue, mayhaps?

17:22 / 10.10.06

Preview on Newsarama. Looks... bright.

17:55 / 10.10.06

hm, looks like a dayglo guilty pleasure is up.

Keith, like a scientist

18:26 / 10.10.06

Lordy, Lordy that takes me straight back to WildCATS #1...in a good way.

21:10 / 10.10.06

DORMAMU!!!!!!!

21:15 / 10.10.06

Hellspont, actually. But they are similar.

22:01 / 10.10.06

Actually really liked the preview, felt it was indeed harking back to those really really early issues of WildCATs. When he last wrote them (in the JLA crossover) I felt he didn't really 'get' the aesthetic or tone of the early image. This seems very close to the mark. Dayglo cyberpunk superhero corporate conspiracies in a dystopian near future. Sounds alright to me...

22:44 / 10.10.06

That preview was soo sweet. I am way more excited about this and the authority that anything else GM has done recently.

08:44 / 19.10.06

This is the best Superhero comic i've read in over 2 years. I could feel the sense of opposing forces about to collide.... ugghh.... 3 reads today and it only gets better... Authority was alright to, but i am reserving judgement until the next issue.

10:00 / 19.10.06

How many superhero comics have you read in the last two years then? I'm not trusting your judgement if all you've read is, say, Gotham Knights or anything by Bruce Jones...

I'm really tempted to get these, but I'm still a little undecided and I can't check it out till the weekend. How is it good? Come on Barbelith, you're usuallyover Mozza's stuff like flies on shit. Why the quiet?

13:11 / 19.10.06

Because I sleep ights, that's why.

Didn't get Authority... the premise didn't appeal. But I did get WildCats, and what I saw was enough to keep me interested. The status quo works, although I do wonder where the Void powers are.

About the only think that didn't work was the LSD/infrared love scene. Without any context, it just looked stupid.

I'd sum up the issue as a nice piece of world-(re)building.

13:42 / 19.10.06

Just read it and, well, it was ok i guess. Nothing great. Didn't really feel like a Morrison comic at all really. Morrison on lowest auto-pilot mode maybe. Jim Lee art is just what you expect and could be from anything he's done in the last 15 years. As Mario said, the IR love scene didn't work at all.

I'll read it next month to see in what direction Morrison takes Spartans ideas of the superhero without 'all the widescreen battles and public displays of stupity'. Of course, the issue closes with an entirely predictable and dull Grifter fight but Morrison may turn that on its head in later issues.

16:07 / 19.10.06

I thought it was alot of fun. Summer blockbuster film in feel and style. The Art was not as terrible as I feared . . . I used to be such a Jim Lee fan to.

So we've got a post-post-human world spinning out of Wildcats V3. Pris seems to have left what's-his-name behind for an infrared fling. I got the impression that whole sequence was viewed by surveillance. A jealous ex perhaps.

The return of Grifter was rather bla. Though the Best there is at what I do gag was worth a page.

I'l give it another issue or 2.

As for the Authority; shocked by GM's use of decompressed storytelling. Great mood setting and Gene Ha, could draw page after page of a ringing cell phone and it would still look impressive.

The Natural Way

17:10 / 19.10.06

I wouldn't normally say this 'cause I think it's the writer that makes a book, but I'm not that interested in the Wildstorm characters/world. The supers demand to be written in a smartass way, and there's nothing of the weirdness or wonder about them that informs, say, the inhabitants of the DCU. Also I just know the global-solutions stuff's going to act as a vent/soapbox for Grant's theory(s) of the week, and, like a lot of barbe-oldtimers, I think Grant's writing's at its weakest when he's at his most didactic. So, hey-ho, I'll read it, but I'm not holding my breath for anything as good as a Manbat-popart-frenzy!!.

07:25 / 20.10.06

I fully admit that it might be because - barring THE AUTHORITY and SLEEPER - I don't really know anything about Wildstorm... but this is the least impressed I've ever been with a Morrison debut issue. There was some nice dialogue about superheroes and spectacle, but I was actually skimming by the last third, and I don't think that's ever happened before.

I feel like this means I'm getting old somehow. And I did really love almost everything about THE AUTHORITY #1, so...

yawn - thing's buddy

08:20 / 20.10.06

moore's first 7 or so issues on wildcats are among my favourite super-reads evah.

part of its appeal was that despite the characters being just so shit, deadbeat and second-rate moore still managed to create a tense, sexy, transgalactic space-pop extravaganza (yes, one of those), that unfortunately withered towards the end of its run due to enforced participation in a mindbendingly shite - and unreadable - cross-over.

this first ish by the moz was entertaining enough. And I'm intrigued to see what the 'Scotchman' will do here. you know, one the one hand he's spinning yarns with the the A-list - Supes and Bats - and then on the other, he's handling Wildcats - the equivalent of a sunday league pub team if superman and batman are premiership twats.

And I also have a soft spot for ultra-glam shiny 'WWF' comics like this that you know are just WRONG.

i also think morrison probably saw the wildcat's grand stage - Khera and Earth and the space in between - as providing a great opportunity to dream up spunk-fuelled imagery for jim Lee to draw.

anyway, strangley, this first issue reminded me of GM's closing arc on New X-Men.

which was nice.

Haus of Mystery

09:44 / 20.10.06

Freedom. That's what it's about. The Wildstorm universe is so barely constructed Morrison will have the opportunity to go places he might not be able in the DCU - I see it as super-weird sci-fi super comics. And there's room in my reading schedule for that.

yawn - thing's buddy

09:51 / 20.10.06

thats a great point macca.

I hope you're right!

11:48 / 20.10.06

Yeah, but this is a deeply unimpressive Morrison debut issue, it was so slight, and... er... technopaths? Talk about autopilot mode.

Can those who loved loved loved this and thought it was the best superhero comic of the last blah years please explain why? Unlike Marriage I think there is potential here, and I think Morrison, like Moore, may be able to unlock it, but was there really anything in _this issue_ that compares with Grant's recent work on Batman or Superman?

Sure, I think the tone is right, and there are some interesting little hints about the future direction of the series dug into the narrative, but on the strength of this I'm struggling to care.

12:13 / 20.10.06

Oh, I too am worried about the potential for Morrisonian didacticism.

yawn - thing's buddy

12:28 / 20.10.06

potential is in the gauntlet moz had laid down himself.

yknow, 'what are adult superheroes all about?'

which is interesting as Morrison has always railed against that kinda shit (mostly).

then there's the bollocksy wildstorm universe to flesh out and dress. that's got potential.

and I'm sure he'll want to outdo moore too.

yawn - thing's buddy

12:52 / 20.10.06

AND:

moore's first wildcats issue was a bit flat . .. the whole 'regroup' thing.

16:31 / 20.10.06

Like I say, I think Grant might well have it in him, I just think this ish was a bit dull and lacking in his trademark creative flair, and am somewhat surprised that 'lithers who I like and respect think otherwise. I'm pretty sure a bunch of you are mistaking your enthusiasm for the book, the art and the characters (and the fact that the creative team gets that stuff on the nose) for good and/or interesting writing.

17:08 / 20.10.06

I'm not going to call WildCats #1 the greatest comic since [insert title here]. But it was FUN. Which is better than most of the realistic/depressing superhero comics out there.

17:19 / 20.10.06

Oh, I didn't actively dislike it, there was some fun to be had, it's just, you know, I expect a bit more from Grunticus.

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