At last month’s Comic-Con in San Diego, DC had the biggest spotlight (biggest news being the exclusivity of Mark Waid and his Brave and the Bold series), while Marvel was pretty low-key. The situation was reversed at this weekend’s WizardWorld Chicago, with very little new DCU information, but lots of announcements and teases from Marvel.
The biggest Marvel news to affect DC fans is probably the signing of writer Jeph Loeb and artist Michael Turner to exclusive contracts. Loeb is the current writer of Superman/Batman, and it’s just launched spin-off Supergirl. Loeb is already on his previously announced final arc on Superman/Batman, and has stated that his Marvel contract allows him to take the Supergirl series to a point where it will be easier to hand off to another writer.
Turner has mostly drawn covers for DC for the past two years, most notably Identity Crisis, as well as a perpetually late arc of Superman/Batman (the one that introduced the new Supergirl, actually). He also wrote a Superman story arc about a year ago.
Frankly, as a major DC fan, I’m not sorry to see either go. While many of Loeb’s stories are fun, they mostly too convoluted with little resolution at the end of stories. His Batman: Hush arc was entertaining as a parade of Batman’s greatest villain, but the story was a little weak (though it did open the door to the current return of Jason Todd). And Turner, he’s pretty much a cheesecake artist who draws figures out of proportion. The Identity Crisis covers should have been by series artist Rags Morales, and when the collection comes out with a choice of covers by the two artists, I’m getting the Morales version.
Their Marvel projects have yet to be announced.
So Marvel’s happy and so am I. And I’m sure Loeb will be back to DC at some point.
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