Teen Titans: A Celebration of 50 Years
by KC Carlson
Dick Giordano passed away on Saturday, March 27. He had been battling leukemia and had been hospitalized for the illness. He passed away due to complications from pneumonia. He was 77.
There are already a ton of tributes to Dick popping up all over the internet (see links at the end of this column). Many of these talk about what a great artist – and especially inker – Dick was. More discuss his many and varied accomplishments in steering DC Comics as a company in the 1980s and 90s. Even more are talking about what a wonderful teacher, mentor, friend, and just plain good person Dick was.
All of this is true.
by KC Carlson
The big news over at Marvel this month is a two fisted-knockout. Part one is the return of Captain America Steve Rogers to the Marvel Universe in a big way. First, the regular monthly Captain America comic starts up again, as issue #602 features the first chapter of Two Americas by Ed Brubaker and Luke Ross. Then, Steve returns to the Avengers in the pages of New Avengers #61 by Brian Bendis and Stuart Immonen – which is one of the tie-in books for Siege, the second part of the big news from Marvel. Written by Brian Bendis and pencilled by Olivier Coipel, Siege is a four-part series described as the culmination of events beginning with Avengers Disassembled and leading through House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion, and the long-awaited (at least by me!) wrap-up of Norman Osborn’s Dark Reign over the Marvel U. Key to the promotion of Siege is the image of Marvel’s core Avengers – Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America – all reunited again, and all the real deal!
It’s time to do yet another one of these year-end lists with me yammering on and on about which comics I liked this year. But: Best? I’m not sure that I’m really qualified to say, since I read such a small percentage of everything published in any given year and I have this annoying tendency (at least in certain circles) to avoid anything even remotely “artsy”. Not that I don’t like art, but I don’t always know what I like, if you know what I mean.
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