PW Comics Week
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Dan Didio Talks Final Crisis and the Future
 DC Comics’ senior v-p and executive editor Dan Didio oversees the DC Universe line of superhero comics, and he’s the most public face of the line itself–cheering on fans at conventions and plugging new projects on the back page of DC’s weekly and monthly titles. This week marks the official beginning of the DCU’s biggest “event” in years, Final Crisis, a much-hyped seven-issue miniseries by Grant Morrison and J.G. Jones prominently featuring Jack Kirby’s early‘70s creations the New Gods; it will be accompanied by four other miniseries (Legion of Three Worlds, Revelation, Rogues’ Revenge and Superman
Beyond) and a cluster of one-shot specials. As he prepared for its release (and for the early-June launch of the weekly Kurt Busiek/Mark Bagley series, Trinity), Didio discussed the state of the line and its readership, and what’s coming up beyond the “end” promised by Final Crisis.
PW Comics Week: Final Crisis, you’ve said, marks the end of the three-act structure the DC Universe line has been forming for a good long while. What happens afterwards? Is there a fourth act?
Dan Didio: Well, needless to say, we will be continuing to publish after Final Crisis, and we will be, hopefully, in a much stronger position than we’ve ever been in before.
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 Del Rey to Bring Fairy Tail's Mashima to San Diego
Del Rey Manga and Kodansha are bringing Japan's hot manga-ka Hiro Mashima to the San Diego Comic-con.
Faust Comes to the U.S. this Summer
Del Rey will publish a U.S. edition of Faust, the acclaimed Japanese literary anthology, in August.
 Tokyopop Showcases Korea's Hee Jung Park
Tokyopop has licensed 4 new manhwa series by the popular Korean manga artist Hee Jung Park.
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In this 10 page preview of Mike Dawson's Freddie & Me: A Coming of Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody, Dawson recreates the beginnings of his childhood love and obsession with the British rock band Queen and its lead singer Freddie Mercury. Bloomsbury will publish the book on June 1.
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Superheroes at the Met
In May, Marvel and DC Comics superheroes invaded one of America's leading temples of high culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," an exhibit by the Met's Costume Institute that finds links between examples of contemporary fashions and classic superhero costumes. PW Comics Week readers who cannot get to New York City to see the show, which runs through September 1, should take a look at the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy catalogue, written by the exhibitions curator, Andrew Bolton and published by Yale University Press.
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What It Is
LYNDA BARRY. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-897299-35-7
 This brilliant, beautiful, nearly uncategorizable book is a print version of Barry's famous seminar "Writing the Unthinkable" a class about writing from "images," recollected or imagined moments. It's part cartooning, part handwritten text, part ornate multimedia collage (with heartbreaking pieces of decades-old school papers and words snipped out of old textbooks)—all three appear on almost every page, most of which Barry constructed by decorating every available space on ruled yellow notebook paper. The first and longest section is a bizarre and hilarious memoir of Barry's creative impulses: how they developed when she was a child, how they flickered and faded when she started
asking herself "Is this good?" and "Does this suck?" and how they returned when she learned to escape that trap. The core of the book, though, explains the "writing the unthinkable" technique; it's narrated by a sea monster and stars a "magic cephalopod." Finally, Barry shows us a sheaf of her note pad, the pages she fills with doodles and spare phrases while she's working on a "real" project; they are, naturally, as vivid and radiantly eccentric as everything else here. The whole thing is overflowing with quirks, strangeness and charm, and makes palpable Barry's affection for her students and the act of art making itself. (May)
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Marvel's Jeff Parker Travels First Class
Originally known for his self-published spy graphic novel, Interman, and Marvel Comics' critically-acclaimed superhero miniseries Agents of Atlas, writer Jeff Parker now seems to be the go-to guy for Marvel's more youthful titles. After writing both The Avengers and Fantastic Four for the kid-oriented Marvel Adventures imprint, he's now at the helm of X-Men: First Class, an ongoing series about the adventures of the original X-Men team. Parker talked with PWCW about viral marketing, keeping comics fun, and his upcoming projects at Marvel and beyond.
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May 27 2008
- Justice Vol. 1 (DC)
- Countdown to Final Crisis Vol. 1 (DC)
- Sorrow (Image)
- Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 2 (Marvel)
- Skyscrapers of the Midwest (Adhouse Books)
- Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 (Fantagraphics)
- Johnny Boo Vol. 1: Best Little Ghost in the World (Top Shelf)
- Boneyard Vol. 4 (NBM)
- The Reformed Vol. 1 (Del Ray Manga)
- Legend Vol. 2 (Yen Press)
- I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara Vol. 2 (Seven Seas Entertainment)
- Rurouni Kenshin VizBig Ed. Vol. 2 (Viz Media)
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Will Eisner Exhibit
- Bleach's Tito Kube To Visit SDCC
- NBM Retailer Contest
- Gary Panter, Matt Groening Sign
- Lynda Barry at the Strand
- Jason at Rocketship
- Charles Brownstein Turns 30
- PWCW Needs Interns!
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