Can You Tell I Dig Agents of Atlas?

Another day, another Agents of Atlas post.

Marvel has released it’s advance solicitations for it’s X-Family books and there is one that is of particular interest to me. I’m sure in what may be an attempt to bring more fans into the Agents of Atlas stable, the team will be starring in a crossover with the X-Men. The story will not be told in the AOA series proper but instead in a two issue mini-series written and drawn by series regulars Jeff Parker and Carlo Pagulayan. I’m not quite sure if this mini will take the place of the AOA monthly during it’s run though.

Here’s the actual solicitation:

X-MEN VS. AGENTS OF ATLAS #1 (of 2)
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by CARLO PAGULAYAN
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Variant by TBA
Zombie Variant by GERALD PAREL
It’s a monster-sized throwdown as the Agents of Atlas go toe-to-toe with the Uncanny X-Men! Venus has been kidnapped and the Agents will scour the Earth to find her! The Uranian needs a bigger boost to enable his mind to scan the globe, and intel suggests the one machine that can help is CEREBRA- which brings the Agents of Atlas head to head with no less than THE X-MEN!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

If you are one of the great fans of Agents of Atlas please help spread the word about this comic. This would be a great chance to introduce your friends to the best superhero team book in the industry. I could go on and on about how great AOA is but I think I’ll stop…for now.

As a side note: Do we really need any more damn Zombie variants? Jeeezus.

J.

I Hope it’s Better Than Flash: Rebirth

It looks like Geoff Johns is not only going to be co-writing the upcoming Flash film but will also serve as a producer. CBR is also saying that Johns has been hired by DC to be a consultant on it’s line of comic based films:

Warners hired Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison and Marv Wolfman this last fall to act as consultants and writers for its superhero line of films. While details of Morrison and Wolfman’s separate projects weren’t revealed, it was noted that Johns has worked up a new treatment for a “Flash” film, being written by Dan Mazeau. Johns will act in a producer capacity on “Flash,” which does not yet have a director.

If this news came out before the release of Flash: Rebirth I would most likely be seeing it as positive but it comes after three awful issues of the mini-series have seen the light of day so I can’t. I have a lot more faith in Wolfman and Morrison putting together a good Flash flick at this point.

No news yet on the eventual casting of Ryan Reynolds as The Flash.

J.

Another test

Mobile blogging at San-Diego Comic-Con isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit if you can’t upload photos, so here’s a shot of my desk at the office.

Getting ready for San-Diego!

Hey folks, Elliott here. Just checking out the mobile blogging feature on wordpress. If it works as well as it should, I’ll be able to share some of my Comic-Con experience with you all as it happens!

I’m curious to see what happens when I hit ’send.’