Art Baltazar and Franco Discuss the Launch of THE GREEN TEAM: TEEN TRILLIONAIRES

Yesterday’s installment of our “What’s New In The New 52” column gave you your first look at artist Ig Guara’s character designs for four of the key players who make up The Green Team.

Today, Eisner Award-winning co-writers Art Baltazar and Franco (SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES; TINY TITANS) revealed some more details about next month’s launch of THE GREEN TEAM: TEEN TRILLIONAIRES, an all-new ongoing series that centers around a group of teenagers with unlimited financial resources.

“For us, every book that we do is a new creative direction, so this is really nothing new to us,” Franco told COMIC BOOK RESOURCES. “We were very excited to take the characters and make them different than what you have seen in 1970-something and put a new twist on them and really update them. We're huge, huge fans of the older TEEN TITANS stuff and we're trying to incorporate some of that team mentality into here, where you have it not gelling together at first, but they've all got the same kind of background and they're all intermingled as far as relationships, so it's an interesting dynamic. We're trying to take these characters and do things with them that you really haven't seen in comics or superhero comics before. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.”

As for how the rest of the rest of the DC Universe will react to the introduction of these teens?

“It's kind of hard to be a trillionaire kid and not show off that money power you know? So it'll definitely catch attention,” Art teased to NEWSARAMA.

To read more about THE GREEN TEAM: TEEN TRILLIONAIRES, visit COMIC BOOK RESOURCES and NEWSARAMA to check out their full interviews with Art and Franco. And in the gallery above, take a look at Amanda Conner’s cover for issue #1, Cliff Chiang's variant cover, as well as two pages of the inaugural issue’s interior art by Ig Guara.

THE GREEN TEAM: TEEN TRILLIONAIRES #1 lands in stores on May 22nd.

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BUZZFEED reveals BEFORE WATCHMEN Deluxe Edition Covers Designed by Chip Kidd

The highly anticipated BEFORE WATCHMEN Deluxe Edition hardcover collections arrive this summer!

Today, BUZZFEED revealed the first look at the covers designed by Chip Kidd, award winning book jacket designer (Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and much, much more) and writer (Batman: Death By Design, The Cheese Monkeys). Click here to see all four.

Pick up BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN/SILK SPECTRE and BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS/CRIMSON CORSAIR in comic stores June 26th and July 2nd everywhere books are sold and BEFORE WATCHMEN: NITE OWL/DR. MANHATTAN and BEFORE WATCHMEN: COMEDIAN/RORSCHACH in comic stores July 10th and July 16th everywhere books are sold.

 

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The DC Entertainment Hugo and Reuben Award nominees are...

Award season is here! We are pleased to share that SAUCER COUNTRY has been nominated for a Hugo Award and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE artist, Amanda Conner, has been nominated for a Reuben Award!

The Hugo Awards have been presented annually since 1955 and are science fiction’s most prestigious award. Voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention, the nominees for the 2013 Hugo Awards were recently announced.

SAUCER COUNTRY Vol 1: RUN, written by Paul Cornell with art by Ryan Kelly, is nominated in the Best Graphic Story category.

You can visit the Hugo Awards site for the full list of nominees.

The 2013 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award winners will be announced Sunday, September 1, 2013, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony at LoneStarCon 3 in San Antonio, Texas.

But that’s not all!

Each year, the National Cartoonists Society honors the year’s outstanding achievements in all areas of the profession. The 2012 nominees for the 67th Annual National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards were recently announced.

Among the nominees in the Comic Book category is artist and co-writer, Amanda Conner for her work on BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE.

For the full list of nominees click here.

The winners will be announced Saturday, May 25th at the Reuben Awards dinner in Pittsburgh, PA.

Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees!

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Chip Kidd to design BEFORE WATCHMEN Deluxe Edition covers

 

The most talked about prequel miniseries in the comic industry are about to be collected in 4 deluxe hardcover editions. Wrapped in covers designed by Chip Kidd, award winning book jacket designer (Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and much much more) and writer (Batman Death By Design, The Cheese Monkeys), they will arrive this summer.

 

Having previously designed a variant cover for BEFORE WATCHMEN: RORSCHACH issue #3, we asked Chip Kidd about what it means to him to design these, destined to be, historic covers. Here’s what he had to say, "To design these covers is both a privilege and an honor. And a challenge!,” said Kidd. “The 'Before Watchmen' creative team did a truly impressive job, and I will try to do justice to them. So to speak."

 

Well, we can’t wait to see them and we hope you’re just as excited as we are. So stay tuned for their future reveal.

 

And look for BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN/SILK SPECTRE and BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS/CRIMSON CORSAIRJune 26th in comic stores and July 2nd everywhere books are sold and BEFORE WATCHMEN: NITE OWL/DR. MANHATTAN and BEFORE WATCHMEN: COMEDIAN/RORSCHACH July 10th in comic stores and July 16th everywhere books are sold.

 

 

 

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This Just Happened: The Crimebusters Meet

SPOILER ALERT: If you have not read BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS #4 or BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE #4 yet and do not wish to know what happens, stop reading this post now (major spoiler ahead!)

 

This week saw the release of BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS #4 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE, both critical parts of the inter-connected prequel mini-series that build on the foundation of the original WATCHMEN, the best selling graphic novel of all time.

 

In BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS, brought to you by writer Len Wein and artist Jae Lee, our hero continues his career fighting crime while serving his country by advising The President during the Cuban Missile Crisis. All around him the second generation of masked adventurers makes their debut, each inspired by The Minutemen that came before them. Ozymandias watches them all as he moonlights as a crime fighter while building his business empire. But one night his effort to change the world is interrupted by a letter from Captain Metropolis summoning him to a meeting.

 

Meanwhile in San Francisco, Laurie defeats the Chairman once and for all in the final issue of BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE, written by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner and illustrated by Amanda Conner. After the battle, she returns home as a “hero.” But before she can really make a difference, she has to do one last thing for her mother: attend a meeting organized by Captain Metropolis.

 

By bringing all the heroes together, Captain Metropolis hopes to create an organization of masked adventurers to fight crime and replace The Minutemen who disbanded years ago. This same meeting is also depicted in WATCHMEN and plays a key role in this graphic novel that inspired these mini-series.  

 

Metropolis’ hopes are dashed when the meeting takes a turn for the worse. The Comedian hates the idea and eventually causes everyone to leave. Will The Crimebusters ever come together as a team?  Is there a leader in their ranks that can unite them all? Share your thoughts in the comments section!

 

Below, take a look at some of the final pages of BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS #4 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE #4 for two very different perspectives of when the heroes meet for the first time. And be sure to pick up future issues of BEFORE WATCHMEN to find out what happens next for The Crimebusters. 

 

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Exclusive Preview of PHANTOM LADY #1

It’s the first issue of the exciting new miniseries, PHANTOM LADY!

 

When she was very young, Jennifer Knight watched her parents get killed by Metropolis’ oldest and strongest crime family: The Benders. Cut to years later and an adult Jennifer is following in her father’s footsteps by taking on the crime world as a reporter … and as a super hero! Phantom Lady to be exact. But will she experience the same fate as her parents when she tries to infiltrate the next generation of Benders? And don’t miss the astonishing origin of the diminutive hero Doll Man!

 

Featuring a cover by Amanda Conner with Paul Mounts, PHANTOM LADY #1 is written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti and is illustrated by Cat Staggs and Tom Derenick. Click here for an exclusive preview of the issue, which hits stores tomorrow.

 

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Countdown to Comic-Con: Our SDCC Amanda Conner Ad

Can you believe it? San Diego Comic-Con is just around the corner. In fact, it’s so close that we’re officially counting down the days. Every day until the start of Comic-Con, we’ll be bringing you something cool to help you get excited about this year’s trip to San Diego. And if you’re not going to Comic-Con, we’re bringing the convention to you with an unprecedented level of SDCC Con Away From Con coverage right here on DCComics.com. Look for things to get rolling here on July 12th, but check back every day until then for more fun stuff and information on what to expect.

 

This week, we’re debuting our new San Diego Comic-Con print ads. We’ve already debuted our Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns ads. Today’s ad features fan favorite artist and Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre co-writer Amanda Conner!

 

 

Look for Amanda in the DC booth at Comic-Con. And keep an eye on THE SOURCE and DCComics.com for more Countdown to Comic-Con features all next week.

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Announcing PHANTOM LADY

There are many titles coming out this summer to be excited for. From DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 to BEFORE WATCHMEN to HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, DC Entertainment is publishing a wide variety of the most anticipated releases in the comic book medium. Today, we are pleased to add another new title to that roster: PHANTOM LADY.

 

Written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti and illustrated by Cat Staggs and Rich Perotta, PHANTOM LADY will star the female Freedom Fighter in the debut of her own 4-part miniseries. And joining her will be her partner-in-crimefighting, the diminutive dynamo known as Doll Man.

 

“Phantom Lady and Doll Man is an exciting return to the roots of the characters as pulpy, street level crime fighters with a few new twists and some heavy sci-fi overtones,” Justin Gray told THE SOURCE. “We took the best of their original core concepts and updated them with no relation to our previous work on Phantom Lady and Doll Man in the Freedom Fighters. You're getting in on the ground floor of the origin story of two people whose lives intersect and a common threat that transforms them into pretty amazing and engaging superheroes.”

 

“We are super excited to reconnect with characters we have been so close with over the years, and getting to create something both exciting and visually cool in the process,” continued Jimmy Palmiotti. “With this series, we dig into who Phantom Lady and Doll Man are, how they came to be and how they fit into DC COMICS-THE NEW 52. There is something for everyone here and we are having a blast!”

 

“I have to say I am really enjoying what Jimmy and Justin have created,” said Cat Staggs. “It is a wonderful take on a classic character. The story itself leans towards a gritty crime noir, which is something I am a huge fan of. Getting to draw this on a daily basis is a dream! I can’t wait for fans to see it!”

 

“One of the first comic books I ever read as a child was FREEDOM FIGHTERS,” added Rich Perotta. “I am very excited to be a part of this latest project from DC Comics.”

 

PHANTOM LADY #1, which features the below cover by Amanda Conner, goes on sale August 29th.

 

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