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  • Planeteer Alert

    The big news this week was that Dynamite Comics is launching a new Captain Planet comic with David Pepose and Eman Casallos. This created some huge buzz and pre-orders immediately came in, so when it is time to order, we are off to the races.

    Another cool aspect that was included in the announcement is that Dynamite will print the comic using 70% recycled paper. Though, this might have always been the case. Which is good, because if there is one thing Dynamite is known for is that it produces a staggering amount of covers for its series, which does create a headache, not only for me but for a lot of customers. They just do not know which one to buy and there is little deviation between a lot of them. I think this is for the hardcore collectors who like to flip books on the internet.

    Luckily, this does not seem to be the case with Captain Planet with only three variant covers announced. So it does seem like Dynamite is aware of the intricacies of launching a comic about a character who advocates for the environment.

    And this is exciting. We need more stuff like this to set the industry ablaze and get fans excited. I do hope the book lives up to the hype, and with Pepose and Casallos involved, I am quite confident that it will.

  • Facsimile Editions

    You might have noticed but Marvel has been soliciting facsimile editions of key issues from their library for quite some time now, and DC has recently done the same. One major difference with DC is that they are really doubling down on those beautiful All-New Collectors’ Editions or Treasury Editions they released in the 70/80’s. This month alone DC solicited two: the famous Superman/Flash race and Batman’s Strangest Cases.

    I think this is quite smart of them. My customers do not have to fork over hundreds of credits for a huge oversized Omnibus to grab these beautiful, classic stories or have to engage the collector’s market, where prices are even higher for a good grade of the same comic. Previously we had the Superman/Muhammad Ali and another Batman depicting the famous duel between Batman and Ra’s al Ghul. So it does seem to be Neal Adams centric so far, and I’m not complaining in the least. I do hope DC continues this trend and so far they have been restricted to actual reprints of the Treasuries that were already released so I am curious if they will go into new territory of some classic storylines that never got the oversized treatment?

    Either way and from Franka’s comic this week, is the old trumping the new?