From: Rich Johnston <[t--i--t] at [mail.easynet.co.uk]>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: Rich's Revelations May
Date: Sat, 18 May 96 19:40:05 GMT

RICH'S REVELATIONS MAY

Rich's Revelations may what? Well, may give you some news you might not have
heard. Remember, rumours abound, don't take everything I preach as gospel,
and we'll all have some fun. And be protected from libel 8-)

The Superman Adventures, in the same vein as The Batman and Robin Adventures
will be published in September, based on the new animation. Paul Dini will
start the series and then Scott McCloud will write the next six, illustrated
by Rick Burchett, Terry Austin and Marie Severin.

Garth Ennis will NOT be taking over Ripclaw from issue 7. Well he might.
Anyway, he is creating a new character with Silvestri, a kind of vampire
Green Lantern, which will spin off from Medieval Spawn/Witchblade, or
something. He's getting companies ringing up him asking him for stuff, which
is a new experience as far as he's concerned.

Neil Gaiman has been asked by Warner Brothers to direct Death: The High Cost
Of Living. He's thinking about it.

Did you know that Dark Horse have copies of Dark Horse Presents 36 up for
grabs with early Aliens/Predator stuff. Wizard has it at $15, but you can
get yours for cover price. With their new deal with Diamond, just ask your
retailer to order you a copy and in 2-3 weeks... you've got it!

Captain America's Ron Garney is moving to take over Silver Surfer after
Scott Eaton finishes. This may be part of a move to put hot artists onto
shit-selling books to improve their sales. The idea being that anyone on
X-Men will sell X-Men, you don't need (insert fan fave here).

But the Kuberts (yes, both of them, sorry Paul O'Brien) are staying put, as
is Pollina and Joe Madeuria. Jeff Matsuada moves to X-Factor, Bachalo stays
on Generation X until he's needed elsewhere, but Ian Churchill is buggering
up his deadlines. Pacheco is working on two Fantastic Fours and an Onslaught
special.

Nate may die in the Onslaught crossover, leaving Scott Summers, his
alternate timeline genetic dad to take the top role in the book, X-Man.

Further Adventures Of Cyclops And Phoenix... top book!

Warren Ellis is to take over Vampirella with the Vampirella Lives title,
staring in October with Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti on art.

Flash and Wonder Woman on Lois and Clark TV series?

D'Israeli has taken up ballroom dancing. Ha!

Warren Ellis and Humberto Ramos are starting a new title for Wilstorm
entitled DV8, spinning off from Fire From Heaven.

Hot book! Charlemagne 1 from Defiant features a very early Adam Pollina.

And now an appeal. Hopefully, in next month's Advance and Previews, the guys
at Capital and Diamond will list Dirtbag 6 (made available again). It's gone
to print now, but low orders (well, compared to X-Flies) means that most of
you guys won't be able to buy a copy from your local shop.

Now this comic will feature work from the phenomenal Mark Stafford and Roger
Langridge, as well by stuff by me, Saint, and other bits and pieces. We
could really do with shifting some of these, so here's your chance. Make an
order. Get your shop to make orders. We're talking 36 pages for $2.95 which
beats most indie titles on the stands, and I'm very happy with it. You
should be too. No really. Oh, it's also a "good jump on starting book".

Oh, and then there's Dirtbag 7 solicited the month after.

So come on guys, hey, I give you all this lovely news month in month out. Go
buy one of my comics, hmm? 8-) I'm under Twist and Shout in the catalogues.

Cheers. I knew I could count on you.