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Look there are other covers for this issue, perfectly decent and sensible covers, but honestly, I couldn't NOT post this variant by Rafael Sarmento and maintain my reputation.

( Even by MY standards this one is a bit.. Well... much? )

Marvel have announced they are doing a "new" Wild Cards series!



Click to embiggen the lovely cover for #1 by Steve Morris. (That is one SERIOUSLY pretty Jetboy!)

For the first time in comic book form, witness the very beginning of the Wild Cards mythos with an adaptation of the very first stories in the original Wild Cards novel. Based on stories by Harold Waldrop, Roger Zelazny and series master-mind and editor, George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards is a fascinating saga set in a whole new world reshaped by the emergence of superpowers. The limited series, titled THE DRAWING OF CARDS, will be written by a team of comic superstars, writer Paul Cornell and artist Mike Hawthorne, and serve as a perfect entry point for Wild Cards newcomers and a must-have new reimagining for Wild Cards aficionados!

Now Bruno Redondo's artwork on the Nightwing has been good... very good... DAMN good, if I might be so bold. It's clear, and kinetic and his Dick Grayson is ridiculously pretty.

So it's a little surprising that he's only drawing one image for this issue

( But it's not what you think )

It's Saturday, it's been a LONG week and some straightforward fun, and prettiness, is what I feel in the need for.

Luckily, the current Nightwing run is providing that. With Past Present and Future

Past - #78 get's a second printing with a new cover
( Read more... )

Present - #79 confirms a long held fan theory
( Read more... )

Future - #80 - A brotherly tradition is revisited in preview image
( Read more... )

It's been announced that as of issue 78, in March next year, Nightwing's title will be written by Tom Taylor and drawn by Bruno Redondo



( Preview black and white art below )

A four page preview for Nightwing #75 is out, and it looks a whole lot more engaging than the LAST anniversary issue (the first to feature "Ric")



As some old friends come to see him

( The Very Secret Diary of Nighrwing- Issue 75, still the prettiest )

Adventures in poor Taste has an interesting interview with Jonathan Hickman up

And one of the things he mentions (along with a fascinating idea about how telepaths are shaped by their emotional environment growing up, which makes a LOT of sense but I've never seen articulated) is that Giant Size X-Men: Nightcrawler's release date has been moved up.



It's switched release dates with the Giant Size X-Men: Magneto, since Alan Davis finished the former, and Ben Oliver had to take some extra time to finish the latter.

Now, Alan Davis drawing Kurt Wagner is ALWAYS a treat, he draws him fabulously, and so this was always going to be a DEFINITE purchase for me, but the preview image that AIPT has up also made my jaded little heart come as close to outright sqeeing as I am capable of (Which isn't very much I admit, but it's a start

( LOOK WHO HE'S GOT WITH HIM! )