2011 Comic-Con: Legendary Comics Sets Two Projects With Paul Pope & Matt Wagner

COMMENTS (5)

• Matt Wagner is a comic book legend, so what better home for his new project? Paul Pope is an absolute genius as well. And the guys at Legendary really know what they’re doing, so this is a recipe for awesomeness. Love it!

  Comment by Andrew Cosby — Saturday July 23, 2011 @ 4:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Pope and Wagner are both great talents. But the “when things go bump in the night, we bump back” thing seems a little derivative. Oh well, Wagner’s been at it for a long time. This is the obvious, retirement-fund idea (the GOOD, non-commercial idea would be a movie of “Devil By The Deed”).

  Comment by observer — Saturday July 23, 2011 @ 9:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “John Tower and his team of high-tech mercenaries are all that stand between civilians and things that go “bump” in the night.”

  Sounds like everything else on Legendary’s slate.

  Comment by Warner Borg — Sunday July 24, 2011 @ 10:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wagner, whose early stuff I like, lost me completely with the MAGE sequel (nearly as bad as the Star Wars prequels), and he’s been living off the Grendel property for too long.

  His last interesting project was Sandman Mystery Theater, this seems like a variant of Challengers of the Unknown meets Fringe meets Doc Savage…

  Comment by ras the exhorter — Sunday July 24, 2011 @ 12:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hi Ras, I hated the MAGE sequel as well. The last thing Wagner did that I liked was the first Batman/Grendel.

  But why *shouldn’t* Wagner live off the Grendel property? It’s his signature creation.

  Comment by observer — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 5:14pm PDT  Reply to this post