Darwyn Cooke on new Superman series!

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Just writing though, which is kinda, like, well, okay, but so what?
Tim Sale is arting Superman: Confidential, which will be about young Clark Kent becoming Superman.
There's a Batman one too written by Andy Diggle and drawderized by Whilce Portacio (whoever that is).
I like some of Sale's Batman stuff, really liked his Detective covers from a few years ago, but his fatty take on Superman kinda bores me. And, like, COME ON, COOKE IS ALREADY INVOLVED! JUST THROW PILES OF MONEY AT HIM SO HE CAN DRAW IT!!!
I mean, as great as New Frontier was, nobody walked away from it hoping for more comics WRITTEN by Cooke.
And really, WHO CARES ABOUT "THE EARLY YEARS"???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

LINK

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

NO LINKING TO THE ALL-NEW WEBSITE OF THE ENEMY

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

D'OH

BTW, Portacio = meeeeeeehhhhhhh.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h263/warlockmag/tim-sale1.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Did an issue of Wetworks ever actually come out? I know that it didn't make it before I just stopped buying comics altogether.

Portacio is sort of like a not as good Jim Lee? Or at least he used to be.

― Occam, Friday, 2 June 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

i remember the great wetworks debacle it was like the chinese democracy of comics!

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

There's been a WETWORKS revival planned for some time and I don't think anything more than an 8-page preview has seen the light of day.

Man, Superman looks like Barry Bonds...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT ABOUT SPIRIT V BATMAN.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Where was the Wetowrks preview? In an issue of Supreme?

― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

No. It was an issue of Bloodstryke.

Re: Portacio

How do these notoriously unproductive motherfuckers keep getting jobs? What other industry works this way?

Yes. As said above: Cooke art and writing = selling point. Cooke art = selling point. Cooke writing, no Cooke art = who gives a shit? Maybe he'll prove us wrong.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

wait so wetworks has NEVER come out?!!?

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

no there was at least one issue - it was rubbish. nanosuit-top-secret-military-vampire-werewolf-no-fucking-sense. i did like the reasoning that since foil-covered comics were doing so well they should cover the heros in it too

― dave k, Friday, 2 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wetworks was three issues or something, they fought some vampire/rock dude. Or they protected that vampire against other vampires, something like that. I think they even had another series years later. Portacio was notoriously late, but didn't he have some sort of medical problem or a death in the family that postponed the original shit?

― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

p.s. Darwyn Cooke? Could be good! This Andy Diggle thing sounds cooler though, I think I'm one of the half-dozen people who bought The Losers.

― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you're right, apparently his sister died and the series was postponed for two years. OOPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetworks

― Occam, Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Andy Diggle on his Batman thing:http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72997

“But,” Diggle continued, “Dan Didio came over to London later that year, and we chatted about what I had in mind - a Batman versus Lex Luthor story. Well, I say ‘chatted’ - what I actually did was engage in an enthusiastic beer-fueled rant, most of which detailed the choreography of an elaborate action sequence featuring a Mach-3 face-off between the Bat-Plane and a 200-foot tall war robot outside Area 51. As you do.

“I recall Dan’s eyes narrowed and he made this sort of non-committal ‘Hmm,’ and I thought, ‘That’s it, I’ve just blown it. He thinks it sucks!’ Turns out what he was thinking was that my take on Batman didn’t sound like the traditionally low-key Detective style of story, and that it might actually make a great launch arc for Batman Confidential.

“It was my feeling that DC had tried so hard to ground Batman in a gritty urban ‘reality’ in the post-Dark Knight era, maybe they’d lost sight of that fact that at its heart it’s still supposed to be a superhero comic. And I passionately believe that superhero comics should be about speed and energy and movement, thrilling adventures and spectacular action. Not just, y’know, whining and soap. So my story begins as a mystery, develops into a conspiracy, and then explodes into all-out, balls-to-the-wall chunky robot action.”

OH YEAH!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

ROBOT. CHUNKS. ROBOT CHUNKS.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Could be good. Though I admit as much as I liked THE LOSERS, the Cyber-Yakuza revenge miniseries that he did recently really left me cold. I dunno, maybe I was just burned out on cyber-Yakuza. It happens.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

So basically it's just LEGENDS OF THE MAN OF TOMORROW/SUPERMAN CLASSIFIED?

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Remember when Mark Millar's upcoming Wolverine run sounded that thrill-powered?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

the Cyber-Yakuza revenge miniseries that he did recently really left me cold

That is because YOU ARE THE UNDEAD! Silent Dragon is awesome!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't argue with your first sentence.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

is batman: ego any good? i almos tboguht it today

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

it's slight but okay. nowhere near the New Frontier or his Spidey stuff, very much an exercise in "let us use visual symbolism to ~~piss about with some influences~~ explore the TWISTED PSYCHE of THE BAT-MANG"

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 9 June 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

What is his Spidey stuff and is it collected?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 June 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

yes, what is his spidey stuff... and is it collected?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 June 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

SPIDER MAN'S TANGLED WEB #11 and #21. Yes, they are.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Collected together? Or am I going to have to buy two Spidey trades full of stuff I don't want just for a total of 10 pages of Cookework?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Separate - Vols. 2 and 4. And that would be 44 pages of Cookework - do what I did and scour the back issue bins, forgoing the trade route (inadvertant pun) altogether. Shouldn't be too hard to find,

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

pick up two copies of each while you're at it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

More than 44, the first issue was 48 pages itself, I think.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

SLOBBER

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 24 July 2008 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

I'll second that!

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:21 (seventeen years ago)

THIRDED

We had it good with The Spirit. There should be new Cooke (almost) every month.

― Garrett Martin, Thursday, 24 July 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

Fourthded.

His new art book is pretty swanky, too. Not sure where you'll be able to get it, though. I'd assume that it'll start filtering out through dealers in the near future.

― Matt M., Tuesday, 29 July 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

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