And The Fandom Rejoiced: Comic Book aka: Comic Books
Comic books often have large announcements to create excitement, especially when someone famous is hired to write or draw a story.
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DC Comics
Gail Simone being named as the writer for Wonder Woman.
"Gail's off the book now? Dammit... oh, well, wonder who the new writer's gonna be? J Michael Straczynski? YES!"*
This, however, was undone by the actual story he wrote...
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. Batman, fighting his way through all of history, with the first edition being illustrated by Chris Sprouse and written by Grant Morrison. Epic. Win.
The entire existence of the Jason Rusch run of Firestorm was full of these, having reappearances by the supporting cast of the Ronnie Raymond days, including: Firehawk, Pohzar/Mikhail Arkadin, and several of the original Firestorm villains (Killer Frost, Multiplex, Typhoon, even Cliff "Thinker" Carmichael). Raymond even came back from the dead in a story arc, and eventually Rusch would be joined by Martin Stein himself to form Firestorm. In one issue, Rusch even makes a veiled fourth wall reference to the fandom rejoicing in his book, as he comments about how he fashioned his costume to look more like the "classic" Firestorm design.
Okay, so DC is putting out one last issue of several long-cancelled titles to "resurrect them" as a tie-in to Blackest Night. Sounds like a crossover stunt to- HOLY SHIT OSTRANDER AND SIMONE ARE WORKING TOGETHER ON A SECRET SIX/SUICIDE SQUAD TEAM-UP AND O'NEIL AND COWAN ARE DOING THE QUESTION!
Oh Bart Allen is back... AND HE'S BACK TO HIS OLD PERSONALITY?!
Yeah... except the former is being written by Adam Beechen, aka the guy who derailed Cassandra Cain. Still, he was a great animation writer so this may actually be up his alley.
Many Cassandra Cain fans were rejoicing when she returned in Batman Incorporated #6 as Blackbat!
Recent news of the massive reboot of the DC Universe has been met with predictable reactions, but there are a few things that couldn't get more warmth:
The realization that Eric Wallace's run on Titans is going to be cancelled after August's issue, a run that immediately got off to the wrong start with the death of Ryan Choi and proceeded to get worse as it went on.
James Robinson's writing a 12-issue series focused on The Shade! Woopwoopwoopwoop!
Stephanie Brown's Batman Inc issue will be in Leviathan Strikes, by Grant Morrisson and Cameron Stewart!
Stephanie Brown is BATGIRL IN LEVIATHAN STRIKES!
The Sandman prequel, by Neil Gaiman, with JH Williams doing the art for the 25th anniversary in 2013.
There's going to be a New 52 Earth 2? Let's just see how they manage to screw it up.... They got James Robinson to write it?! And it features completely different origins for the heroes?!
Marvel Comics
When Brian K. Vaughan announced his departure from Runaways, there was much speculation as to who the "worthy replacement" he promised could possibly be. It turned out to be Joss Whedon. Unfortunately, Whedon's Runaways arc was not terribly popular with fans. But at the time, it sure shut up complaints. His replacement Terry Moore on the other hand was more of a What The Hell, Casting Agency? moment, though.
and yet again with Kathryn Immonen (writer of the Hellcat mini)
Amazing Spider-Man #611 will feature a showdown between Spider-Man and Deadpool. A showdown that will, apparently, degrade into "Yo Mamma-geddon". And it's being written by Joe Kelly.
God, I hate Carly, yet Quesada keeps insisting that she's Spider-Man's perfect girlfriend. Good grief when is this ever going to... wait? Carly broke up with Spidey? Woo-hoo! The MJ train is back on track!
The announcement that Brian Michael Bendis will be wrapping up the Avengers story he's building up at 2012 AND retiring his position as the head writer are met with much rejoicing.
Ed Brubaker resurrecting Bucky (one time sidekick to Captain America) was so popular, that news of his death in the pages of Fear Itself angered fans. That anger turned into rejoicing after it was revealed in a post-event comic that Bucky didn't die and that he's going to star in a "Winter Soldier" on-going written by Brubaker starting in January 2012.
As for The Avengers, there's Avengers: The Childrens Crusade. Full stop. Basically a series that exists simply to outright overturn the much hated "Avengers Disassembled" storyline as well as allowing Allan Heinberg to finish the storylines he was banned from doing in Young Avengers (confirming Wiccan and Speed as Scarlet Witch and Vision's kids and bringing back Scott Lang, which was foreshadowed at the end of Heinberg's first Young Avengers arc).
Writers under Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso seem to be making a habit of tacitly undoing many of the more unpopular creative decisions made by Alonso's predecessor Joe Quesada. We have Children's Crusade and the end of Bendis's Avengers mentioned above, as well as Spider Island in which, in addition to the aforementioned breakup with Carlie, the magic spell that prevented anyone from learning Peter's identity is undone and Mary Jane admits she's still in love with Peter (although not to his face, unfortunately) after she of all characters had been repeatedly used as a Shipper on Deck for Peter and Carlie. As well, Avengers Vs X-Men issue 9 torpedoes the much-malignedBlack Panther/Stormmarriage with a single throwaway line, and foreshadowing within the same storyline seems to indicate that the Decimation and possibly the Cyclops/White Queen relationship may be on their way out, too.
Consequences, the Post-AVX mini, exploring Cyclops' side in the whole situation, setting up a new Status Quo for him, and basically establish that he really wasn't a villain, but a victim of circumstance? YES! Wolverine gets called out on his hypocritical bullshit? Double YES!
When it was announced that Kieron Gillen was leaving Journey Into Mystery come October 2012, there was much fear that Kid Loki was finally going to die and that the status quo would be unfortunately restored. However, previews for Marvel NOW show that Gillen will be writing a story with Kid Loki, Wiccan, and Miss America. Then this came out and showed that perhaps Kid Loki's adventures are not quite over yet...
And then "Journey into Mystery" #645 came out...and there much less rejoicing after that.
And then issue #1 came out and the fandom rejoiced all over again!
Hawkeye getting his own Ongoing? Written by Matt Fraction and art by David Aja? OK, that's pretty cool but-*Reads first few issues* Marvel take my money now!
Secret Avengers coming to an end? That sucks-wait, its being relaunched, and will add Phil Coulson, Daisy Johnson, Mockingbird, and Taskmaster to the team!? So what if the story behind the team doesn't sound great, its got Taskmaster!
IDW
There's a new Godzilla comic series out. Ho-hum, same old cheesy battles against monsters no one cares abou-Wait, is that Mothra on the cover? Anguirus too? This is going to be awesome!
Well, the covers are probably going to look cra- Awesome!
Godzilla Legends? Okay, I don't see why- wait, Anguirus fighting Destoroyah? An entire issue dedicated to Rodan? The Simeons? Retro-style Mecha-Godzilla? Miki Saegusa? Matt Frank doing the interiors for the first issue? SWEEET! Art Adams, Bob Eggleton and Chris Scalf doing the covers for the first time since the Dark Horse Godzilla comics doesn't hurt either
James Stokoe Orc Stain doing Godzilla comics. Don't let me repeat that.
In Godzilla Kingdom of Monsters, Space Godzilla. In Godzilla Ongoing, Mothra, Kiryu and Gigan.
Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth. They are bringing in Varan, Destoroyah and, possibly, Gorosaurus.
Even better, MATT FRANK IS DOING THE INTERIORS! NERDGASM!
The first monster that Godzilla is fighting is Zilla? WHAAAAAAAAT!? Wait, he's going to just be another monster? They're going to have an actual fight? This. Might. Just. Work.
Some new pictures have arrived as concept art. [1]◊ [2]◊ Is that a female protagonist? Steve Woods? MANDA!? This is gonna rock!
Ho-hum, the covers will just be dull- What's this!? A Doctor Whooves themed-cover? And he's wearing the Fourth Doctor's scarf? And a Weeping Angel-Pony in the background? So much win!!!
Other Comics
The facts were these. Pushing Daisies had met an unfortunate demise at the hands of an apathetic network after suffering in its first season thanks to the writer's strike, meaning that the much awaited Ned vs. zombies plotline would indeed never happen and many loose threads would, alas, remain lose. But then, as though gifted with the piemaker's touch, Warner Brothers production company resurrected the program by gaving the okay to one Bryan Fuller to recruit three of the show's other writers to continue the story in comic form, and series composer Jim Dooley to release a companion soundtrack. Said books are due to be released sometime this year. At this very moment, nine million, four-hundred and sixty thousand nerds are punching their fists in the air.
