The Comic Wire for February 1, 2001
Beau Yarbrough
Readers of DC Comics' "Crisis on Infinite Earths" collection -- like
those at CBR's very own Flash message board -- who read writer Marv
Wolfman's preface to the landmark collection may well have perked up
their ears when Wolfman revealed that he inserted into the story a means
for Barry "Flash" Allen to return from his seemingly definitive death in
the pages of the book.
Allen has been dead a decade and a half at this point, and DC seems
committed to leaving him that way, but Wolfman's
get-out-of-the-afterlife free card is still valid (and has been used to
a limited extent).
"The idea was to find a way to make Barry Allen a more vivid character,
which was DC's problem with him," Wolfman told the Comic Wire on
Wednesday ...
TOTLEBEN ILLUSTRATES ULTIMATE MAN-THING
Fans of Marvel Comics' classic horror comics remember John Totleben. And
this year, a new generation of Marvel fans will learn that whatever
knows fear burns at the touch of the Ultimate Man-Thing.
Totleben is handling the art on an upcoming issue of Marvel's "Ultimate
Marvel Team-Up" book written by Brian Bendis and featuring the
continuity-streamlined Ultimate Spider-Man teaming up with other
characters from Marvel's Ultimateverse ...
DIXON HELMS FALL EVENT FOR DC
TALKS PLANS FOR 2001
By his own admission, writer Chuck Dixon hasn't updated the news section
of his personal Web site, Dixonverse.com, recently. Nagged into doing so
last week, he laid out his plans for the year, including hints at DC
Comics' big event next fall.
"The Big Secret Thing that Scott Beatty and I have been cooking up is a
six-part stunt (with its own Secret Files!) that will play out all
through October and impact the entire DCU that month and continue to
impact my three monthlies well into next year ..."
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Beau Yarbrough,
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