Saturday, November 22, 2003

It's been a while since I indulged in heavy duty comic book geekery in this space, but an announcement has just come down the wires that takes me back to a time when Comic Book Friday was the best day of the week and I'd not yet felt the sweet, sweet touch of a woman's lips against my own.

Games, a graphic novel starring the best superhero team of the 80s*, The New Teen Titans, will finally see the light of day after a decade and a half of stagnation. The original creative team of writer Marv Wolfman and artist/god-who-walks-among-us George Perez have returned to the project, tanned, rested, and ready. With about 80 pages already done, they have another 40 to do, plus a framing sequence of 20-30 pages which will square this sixteen year old story with current comics continuity.

The Titans are my favorite superheroes of all time, and those who only know them from the excellent Cartoon Network series would do well to give this graphic novel a look when it shows up in stores late next year.

I stopped collecting comics a year or two ago, the enjoyment I got from them no longer coming close to the expense of buying the books. With Games to look forward to, I'm getting that old, familiar longing again. It wouldn't hurt to pick up a couple titles, would it?

*Who are these "X-Men" of which you speak?

Posted @ 1:34 PM

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