March 26: The Week in Awesomeness

The Return II

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Titans #1 - Preview

COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1641 has an article on/preview of the upcoming TITANS #1.
I'm still not a fan of Ian Churchill, but I'm hating the idea of this series less. Although, since he'll be gone after the first issue and replaced by Joe Benitez... I'm still not holding out much hope.

TITANS #1
On sale April 9, 2008
Written by Judd Winick
Art and cover by Ian Churchill & Norm Rapmund
CBG cover by Jamal Igle

At the very least, Churchill isn't afraid of the man parts.

The Return

MAJOR SPOILERS if you haven't read BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #4 & 5.

written by Chuck Dixon; art by Julian Lopez and Bit

Superpowers: Origins - The Claw

Most people who are aware of The Claw probably know him mostly as the arch-nemesis of the golden-age Daredevil. But The Claw actually preceded Daredevil by about 9 months, having first appeared in SILVER STREAK COMICS #1. Odd that a monster/villain would have his own feature, did that happen frequently in the golden age?

Anyway, The Claw appeared on the cover of PROJECT: SUPERPOWERS #0 and in the 2-page fight scene. Whether or not he will appear again, I don't know. But he was the Daredevil's main advisory for quite awhile, and the 'Devil is a main character in PROJECT: SUPERPOWERS, so...

Here's (not really the origin, but) the first appearance of The Claw.

And that last page! A bunch of nekkid menz fightin' the bad guys. What's not to love!!?

SILVER STREAK COMICS #1 (December 1939)
written by Jack Cole?; art by Jack Cole

You can download SILVER STREAK COMICS #1 (scanned from microfiche) and lots of other awesome golden-age goodness from Golden Age Comics Downloads!

Superpowers: Origins - Golden Age Daredevil

The Death-Defying 'Devil (formerly-known-as [the golden age] Daredevil), made a brief appearance in PROJECT: SUPERPOWERS #0, and returns in the upcoming PROJECT: SUPERPOWERS #2. But where does he come from...?

Well, he origin doesn't really give much of a clue. Between his first and second appearances the character had a pretty major overhaul. He started out as a yellow and blue clad mute in SILVER STREAK COMICS #6. In SILVER STREAK COMICS #7, his costume was red and blue...and he could speak. No reasons were ever given for the change.

From SILVER STREAK COMICS #6 (September 1940)
written by ?; art by Jack Binder

You can download SILVER STREAK COMICS #6 (scanned from microfiche) and lots of other awesome golden-age goodness from Golden Age Comics Downloads!

(not necessarily the) Best Covers: DC/Marvel June '08

Hm. Another month without a plethora of cover solicitations that grab ya by the eggs. So I'll just talk about a few of the more interesting ones:

HUNTRESS: YEAR ONE #3 - MATTHEW CLARK
Matthew Clark draws an awesome looking Huntress.
Too bad he's only doing the covers.
And really too bad that he isn't drawing the Titans instead of what we're getting...


SUPERGIRL #30 - DREW JOHNSON & RAY SNYDER
Why does this bring to mind Superboy-Prime and the Superboy-Punch?
Is it a coincidence?


TEEN TITANS: YEAR ONE #6 - KARL KERSCHL & SERGE LAPOINTE
Hm. This one looks kinda familiar.
Not sure where I might have seen it before, though...


TEEN TITANS #14 (April 1968) - NICK CARDY


ULTIMATE ORIGINS #1 - SIMONE BIANCHI
On the off chance that I did decide to read this...
I'd have a tough time deciding between this and the Michael Turner variant!!
(not)


UNCANNY X-MEN #499 - MIKE CHOI
Just something hot about it!


WOLVERINE: ORIGINS #26 - GREG LAND
Okay, okay, I know -- it's just another Greg-Land-traces-a-photo cover.
Doesn't stop if from being a cool looking image, though.


WONDER WOMAN #21 - AARON LOPRESTI
AHHH!! Wonder Woman's a Skrull!!
Who do you trust!?