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One of my favorite artists in the industry is Mark Bagley and I didn’t realize until today that all of his comic work has been for Marvel. Could have sworn that I’ve seen him do something for DC…

Newsarama announced today that next year Bagley will move to DC Comics for an “undisclosed high-profile project”.

Thinking about this announcement, I really have no idea what Bagley should work on there. Personally, I’d like to see him do another team book. Yeah, I know that he’ll be doing some issues of The Mighty Avengers, but I want to see him on a regular team book, like what he did on Thunderbolts years ago. Loved Busiek and Bagley’s Thunderbolts. Loved it.

To me, Bagley is a Marvel guy, through and through. I don’t see him being a fit for DC, but I’m prepared to be surprised.

What DC characters would you like to see him work on?

Here are some of my suggestions, so listen up, DC:

Robin, Batman, Justice League, Green Arrow, Teen Titans…

I’m sure more will come to me later.

Tell me your thoughts!

Yeah, it’s been quiet around here.

Couldn’t be helped.

This semester is coming to an end and the pressure is on, so posting will probably be few and far between til the end of the semester, but I’ll try to take advantage of the Thanksgiving break and update the blog as much as I can.

But I do have some thoughts to share this weekend so here they come…

I must say that I’m impressed at the visuals for the new design.

Does anyone besides me think that it’d be too obvious if Bucky became the next Captain America?

Honestly, I’m hoping that it’s someone else. Who, I have no idea, but somone else. Maybe Hawkeye? Kind of leaning toward him myself…

Thoughts?

So I saw the announcement on Newsarama that Ellis’ Black Summer is going to get an Alpha issue that reprints issue #0 and #1 and it ships this month.

Awesome.

Love the series so far and it’s easily the best series that Avatar has ever published. I must say that I’m also impressed with how Avatar as been able to publish some really great books recently and I admire their business model. They’ve really expanded and they’re definitely getting my money on a monthly basis now.

What do you think of Black Summer so far?

I’ve been waiting for Ellis to let completely loose on a superhero comic for a long time. The Authority was just a taste of what kind of superhero comics he should be writing.

This Wednesday can’t get here fast enough.

I just want to extend a big CONGRATULATIONS to Matt Brady and Michael Doran at Newsarama. They’ve been aquired by Imaginova and though I really have no idea what it means for them, I think that it’s a good thing.

Newsarama is a site that I’ve been reading for years and was even a cofounder of Blog@Newsarama and it’s the site that’s currently my homepage.

As the cliche goes, “You’ve come a long way, baby…”