New Cloak and Dagger Series!

[rainspirit]

Oh, dear. Just as I thought that I'd been finally weaning myself off superhero comics, my old favourite B-lister duo start getting the treatment they deserve: Reported by Bleeding Cool News, it looks as if a Cloak and Dagger new series is about to take off, with Nick Spencer and Emma Rios at the helm!

I've read Nick Spencer's Morning Glories series and I really, really like it. It'll be interesting to see how he handles Cloak and Dagger; hopefully the series won't be too concerned with the inane Spider Island mucky-muck it'll be arising out of. (Though I suppose a Spider-Man cameo or two wouldn't hurt - they've always seem to have had an interesting friendship.)

Does anyone know any examples of Emma Rios' art? Wouldn't mind checking out her work to get a better idea of what the finished product's gonna look like.

For legality, my favourite page from the second run of the 80's Cloak and Dagger comic:



The URL title of that jpeg is horribly relevant. Cloak's expression never fails to TERRIFY THE CRAP OUT OF ME.

Comments

[thanekos]

aces!

easy money they fight Mister Negative within the first six, especially considering his origin.

(Maybe Phil the Hobgoblin, too.)

less on following up from that one shot, though.

[icon_uk]

Ooh, Art Adams Cloak and Dagger art... sweet!

Always loved Cloak and Dagger, it seems impossible that no one had used that as a double act name before the 1980's

[rainspirit]

I'm such a young brat that my first exposure to them was the Maximum Carnage Sega Genesis game. I wasn't really invested in comics until my adult years, but they've always stuck in my head. :) Their old comic series is still a treat to read, even if it's gotten a little musty with age.

[rainspirit]

Sorry, Sega Master System. I forget that I'm talking to a Brit. ;P

[stubbleupdate]

The Sega Genesis is what we call the Mega Drive, the 16bit console.

The Master system was the 8-bit

[rainspirit]

...Wow, I think I lost my video game geek cred for that. Yeah, I remember my friend having a Mega Drive when I lived in England; thanks for the correction!

[ap0cryphal]

i got nick spencer's morning glories on trade few days back, pretty good read.

emma rios did some work on amazing for Shed i think. and she's drawing the Osborn mini right now. she did a supernatural / horror mini called Hexed at boom studious a ways back. i liked it. colourful, vibrant and creepy art.

FYI: cbr link, review of hexed #1, there's a couple pages from the comic there.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/10/22/hexed-1-advance-review/

[stubbleupdate]

Emma Rios drew the new Dr Strange mini, didn't she?



I'm currently waiting for Nick Spencer's Infinite Vacation and enjoyed his one issue of Supergirl.

Is he writing War Machine Iron Man 2.0?

[thanekos]

Yeah, that's him.

[rainspirit]

Okay, that is some excellent art. I'm excited now!

[blackruzsa]

Emma Rios has a tag, I believe, on s_d so you can look it up.

This sounds exciting!

[ian_karkull]

Nick Spencer, Emma Rios and Cloak & Dagger...

I... I believe I just had my first 0honest-to-gosh, real life Squee!!!

Capital S, several exclamation marks and Sprinkles on Top.

[tsunamiwombat]

I thought Cloak was always pretty emo over the fact he was parasitic on Dagger to keep from eating people?

[aaron_bourque]

He was never all that emo, really.

[rainspirit]

That was 80's writing. How dependent he is on Dagger's light depends on who's writing 'em these days.

Glories.

[nefrekeptah]

Oh, glad to hear that he's getting more work. I picked up the first trade at wondercon, and I liked it a lot.

Also, if he's doing Marvel stuff now, does that mean maybe he'll be doing Runaways in the future? Because "Glories" felt a lot like "Runaways" mixed with "The Prisoner".

[long_silence]

Is this an ongoing or a miniseries? Either way this is great news.

[turtlefu]

I like Spencer, but I also really think he's starting to get overexposed and wearing himself thin.

Even Hickman knew that 2 ongoings was enough. Same with Snyder.

[ian_karkull]

And yet, no one ever says that to Bendis or Johns when they take over several core franchises and with them effectively the entire mainline direction of storytelling of a company for years to come.

In short, what on Earth are you on about? Some creator owned-properties and a few guest stints on some fringe titles plus a -let's be honest- fairly obscure property does not creative burnout make.
Plus Hickman is used to drawing all his stuff by himself in painstaking detail and is probably an complete Nazi to workwith (PS: I love You Jonathan I really do. Please never stop writing FF).

[salinea]

Please, could you try to not use "Nazi" to describe someone who overly anal and rigorous with a given subject?

[tsunamiwombat]

Fine, a Commie then. A dirty, filfthy commie. CAPITALISM, FARRUK YEAH!

We do need a new word to describe someone overly anal and rigerous to the point of irritation.

[salinea]

severe, uncompromising, stringent, exacting, unpermissive, despotic, imperious (rex), onerous, picky, hypercritical, fussy, ironhanded...?

thesaurus are wonderful things ♥

[starwolf_oakley]

Couldn't we just say "overly anal"?

Well, maybe not on this board.

[ian_karkull]

Can I please be excused from this argument on the grounds of a) actually being German and having had this talk a dozen times even beforen middle school and b) "being a Nazi" being shorthand for being overly anal in popular culture for the last 30 odd years or so?

[salinea]

a) if anything it means you should know better.

b) An expression or turn of phrase being widespread in popular culture for a long time doesn't at all mean that it isn't offensive and dismissive; and shouldn't be used on a community which tries to be a safe space and promote anti-discrimination.

Mod note

[kingrockwell]

It isn't the Germans whose experiences the word belittles and trivializes nearly as much as it is the Jews. Being analytical and rigorous is in no way comparable to genocide, seriously.

Words have power, and they are not robbed of that power simply because they've fallen into popular use. You've been asked by someone for whom this word does hold power over to refrain from using it, is your right to throw it around meaninglessly in public really more important than a consideration for who will come across it?

[turtlefu]

I didn't mention Johns or bendis because I was only talking about good writers. I would say the same thng for them but I despise their writing.
So don't suppose on feelings like that. Besides PLENTY of people have said that Johns and Bendis get too muc control.

Second, Spencer is the new "hot property" right now, so the companies want him to write a ton of stuff and I just don't want to see him overworked. He's on 5 books right now, along with some guest spots. I don't care what you say, that is a lot.

Also, I feel like you got pretty angry with me for merely suggesting that Spencer is on too many books. I don't see why that is so inflamatory.

[ian_karkull]

I didn't mean to sound angry but your comment -the way I've read it anyway- seemed to suggest that Spencer, a writer we obviously agree on in that he has lots of talent, gettin more work in the industry is somehow a bad thing.
Perhaps what it all boils down to is that I don't think that having a steady job with what is considered to be "The Man" in our tiny little niche market necessarily means that it will also dilute your creative vision.
It's true, Nick is blowing up right now and I wish him the best of luck with that but that doesnt dimish his product.
Only time will tell what he's really capable of, as is the case with any professional, but so far, he's done some amazing work (Everyone here loved Supergirl's passion for knitting, didn't you?) and I feel that it's unfair to dismiss him just because he behaves like any professional who is relatively new to the industry would, taking any job he can get and bring his best to it.

[stubbleupdate]

FF, SHIELD and Secret Warriors?

[shanejayell]

On one hand, Yay! for more Cloak and Dagger, but on the other Ugh! for this apparently following up on Spider Island.

[lascoden]

Aren't they getting their own TV show soon?

[rainspirit]

Define "soon". That TV show proposal has been floating around for YEARS.

I'd like to see some sort of variant on this relationship:

[misterbug]

Re: I'd like to see some sort of variant on this relationship:

[rainspirit]

...I laughed. I'm not sure why. :(

Is this from Civil War? What issues?

Re: I'd like to see some sort of variant on this relationship:

[baihu]

This looks shopped; not because of how Cloak and Dagger's relationship is because it looks refreshing and hilarious, but because I think Reed wouldn't go 'seriously'.

Re: I'd like to see some sort of variant on this relationship:

[rainspirit]

You're half-way there. Someone edited the text bubbles, yes.

[leoboiko]

Oh, those Cloak and Dagger. I thought it was a new comics in this genre.