Wildstorm:Storm Front panel was held Saturday night from 6:30 to 7:30. There were approximately fifty attendees at the panel. Hank Kanalz, Vice President and General Manager of Wildstorm Productions, opened up the panel and welcomed everyone. Also in attendance was Ben Abernathy, Darick W. Robertson, writer Phil Hester, T. J. Fixman, Ricardo Sanchez, writer Kurt Busiek, writer Tom Taylor, writer Stuart Paul, editor Scott Peterson, artist Cruddie Torian, and editor Jim Chadwick.
Month: July 2010
Wildstorm Addiction Podcast – Episode 9
Welcome to a special episode of Wildstorm Addiction! Our resident Wildstorm experts Joe David Soliz & Benjamin Murphy talk about the Wildcats on an exclusive interview with Adam Beechen to discuss both he and Tim Seeley’s monumental issue #25. Adam decided that with his supreme celebrity status that air conditioning was more important than sound quality. So even though I took a stab at reducing the background noise, in the end I decided to leave it as is. I apologize for this inconvenience, however, Adam doesn’t care about you and says he just wanted to get back to his Mai Tai’s. [Comment in jest by the editor, BEN]
Adam really elaborates on many of the questions asked with many insights into what has happened with the Wildstorm Universe over the past two years.
Welcome to Tranquility: One Foot in the Grave #1
“Homecoming-Part One: A Shot at Redemption” (No Spoilers)
Welcome ‘back’ to Tranquility! That quirky little town in the Wildstorm Universe that Gail Simone introduced us to back in 2006. In case you don’t know, the original Welcome to Tranquility ran for 12 issues. As part of the Worldstorm event, it retroactively added this cast of elderly superheroes to the Wildstorm Universe. For example, it added a history between Majestic, The High, and Tranquility resident Maximum Man as a trio fighting crime in the early 20th century called The Big Three. It was an idea that did not exist before the series. After the series, there was a Welcome to Tranquility: Armageddon one-shot that appeared as part of the Wildstorm: Armageddon crossover. Since then, we haven’t seen the town other than a few mentions of it over in Gen 13.
Dv8: Gods and Monsters #4
“Calm Like a Bomb” (No Spoilers)
Ok, now we’re back on track with this issue! The series had slowed down a little bit, especially last issue, but now we’ve got an issue centered on Threshold. Did anyone really think we’d get a slow issue dealing with Threshold? I think not!
Since he first appeared in the original Gen 13 mini-series Threshold has always been a very interesting character to me. He’s psychotic but he’s well justified in being this way I think. He saw his parents murdered in front of him when he was just a kid. He was raised by Project Genesis to be a killer. And he had Ivana Baiul as a lover once upon a time, something I think would drive anyone crazy. He’s also a very angry character which means he could snap at any moment and believe me, snap he does.