Bagley at DC?

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

According to Newsarama, he's moving.

Hopefully, he can draw Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Action Comics each month. They might then stand a chance of catching up and staying on time. Just give him a two month lead time and he'll sort out the rest.

This world is crazy.

-Augie

[torippu]

What's the world coming to these days?!? Too busy at work to check the internets today and I come home to this news? I can't believe it. Although, I was dreading this day ever since Bagley finished up his run on USM and the only thing that Marvel announced was his arc on Mighty Avengers.

Any guesses as to what he is going to be working on? I hope that it is something with Geoff Johns.

[Sean Walsh]

This is a huge coup for DC.

They got not only the premier Spider-Man artist of the last 15 years, but also (IMO) the only artist in the modern industry who can pump out A+ work at a bi-weekly rate.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Yeah, it's a big loss for Marvel, but I have to think it's a needed change of pace for Bagley. He's never had a chance to draw the DC characters. He's never "left home," so to speak. And at Marvel, he's always going to wind up drawing Spider-Man again, in one form or another. ;-)

And he's a perfect fit for DC, being a guy who can draw three times as many issues per year as the average Big Name DC artist.

Win win.

Except for Marvel, but I think we're only 22 - 24 months away from the press release that says, "Bagley Returns Home."

-Augie

[DWEarhart]

I've stopped reading most comics, have completely stopped with central Marvel and DC stuff, meaning their main imprints, but this is the best news I've heard in some time. I love Mark Bagley and consider him to by my definitive modern era Spiderman artist. Todd McFarlane's work did what it did, but Mark Bagley, to me, was awesome in the nineties, and on early Ultimate Spiderman (I stopped collecting somewhere in the teens numbers).

I may actually buy the books he's contributin to. He's also one of the few artists I will follow.

[stealthwise]

I've been waiting for this for 15 years.

FIFTEEN YEARS.

Exciting stuff.

[torippu]

I'm sure that he'll be back to Marvel in a couple of years with his batteries recharged and high profile book in his lap.

For the time being, I'd like to see him pencil THE FLASH.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Rich Johnston says it's the next DC weekly title. Bagley will be drawing a little more than half of every issue for 52 weeks. Only Bagley could do that. . .

-Augie

[torippu]

Rich Johnston says it's the next DC weekly title. Bagley will be drawing a little more than half of every issue for 52 weeks. Only Bagley could do that. . .

-Augie

I bet that JR JR could also pull it off...

I guess that it makes sense to have him drawing a weekly book starring the Big 3 than it does the scarlet speedster. I wonder who will be inking him on this book? After Art Thibert left, I felt that it took Marvel a while to find someone who was compatible with his pencils - Drew Hennessey.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Ah, who cares? We'll all be too busy reading Marvel's on-line comics. ;-)

-Augie

[bert]

Ah, who cares? We'll all be too busy reading Marvel's on-line comics. ;-)

-Augie

they have to come out first, don't they?


"One more day" is weekly? Monthly? bi-Monthly? Yearly?

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

It's OK. The legal Marvel on-line comics will be delayed by six months. =)

And the ONE MORE DAY storyline is already a month and a half late, with the latest revised schedule indicating that it'll be another month and a half before it's done.

Pity.

-Augie