2006 Comic Book News Archives
July 21, 2006: Donner Joins Johns on “Action Comics”
It has just been announced at the "Warner Bros. Home Video: Superman Through the Ages" panel at the San Diego Comic-Con that "Superman: The Movie" director Richard Donner will be joining Geoff Johns as co-writer on "Action Comics" starting in October.Newsarama caught up with the pair and asked a few questions...
- Q: Dick, has writing comic books been an long-unfulfilled ambition of yours? Or is it the opportunity to work with Geoff again? Or a chance to re-establish your relationship with Superman? Or all of the above? And whatever the response, why now, this moment in time?
Donner: It was the chance to work with Geoff. When it came up I thought "Wow. This could be a great highlight in my life." The learner becomes the master, the master becomes the learner. Doing it on a Superman title is icing on the cake.
Q: So, how did the project come about?
Johns: Dick has an original page of art from one of my books in his office. And one day I thought how cool would it be to have a page from a book we did together. So I said we should do a Superman comic and thanks to [editor] Matt Idelson it turned into a monthly book.
Q: Some general accounting questions - when does this run begin and for how long are current plans for it to last?
Johns: Action Comics #844. And we wanted Action Comics. It began with Action Comics. Currently, our run is open ended.
Q: Creatively, can you briefly describe how this works? Do each of your have a specific role? Do you share plotting and scripting duties?
Johns: Yeah. Dick and I sit down and brainstorm. We break the issue, write an outline then I script it, give it to him and we polish it up.
2006 Comic News
Listed below are all the Comic News items archived for 2006.- January 10, 2006: Geoff Johns & Kurt Busiek Talk Superman “One Year Later”
- January 13, 2006: Gail Simone on Livewire's Comics Debut
- January 25, 2006: Dan Didio Talks Superman Comics
- January 25, 2006: Matt Haley on “Superman Returns” Comic Adaptation
- January 26, 2006: Kurt Busiek Talks About His Ideas for Superman
- January 28, 2006: DC Comics Announces Cover Price for “52”
- January 31, 2006: “Infinite Crisis #3” Sells Out, Second Printing Coming
- February 1, 2006: Superman - This is Your Life
- February 2, 2006: “Infinite Crisis #4” Goes Back to Press for New Printing
- February 8, 2006: “Supergirl #5” Gets Extra Pages and Two Covers
- February 15, 2006: Chuck Austen Talks About His Time Writing Superman
- February 15, 2006: DC Offers “Superman/Batman #1” as Second FCBD Title
- February 17, 2006: Jeph Loeb on Sam and “Superman/Batman #26”
- February 24, 2006: Earth-2 Superman in Wizard Magazine #174
- February 25, 2006: Superman Comics Info From New York Comic-Con
- March 1, 2006: Matt Idelson Talks Superman Comics
- March 2, 2006: “Supergirl #5” Goes Back to Press for New Printing
- March 8, 2006: “Infinite Crisis #5” Goes Back to Press for 2nd Printing
- March 9, 2006: Exclusive Matt Idelson Interview
- March 15, 2006: “Superman Returns” Prequel Comics Announced
- March 19, 2006: Superman News from Wizard World L.A.
- March 28, 2006: Superman Featured in Wizard Magazine #175
- April 4, 2006: Olivetti Replacing Byrne on “Superman Returns” Prequel Comic
- April 5, 2006: Judge Says Siegels Own Superboy - “Smallville” in Question
- April 5, 2006: Superman Homepage Emerald City Comic Con Report!
- April 7, 2006: E! Online Report on Superboy Court Case
- April 14, 2006: New Team Back in Action
- April 19, 2006: Jim Krueger Talks Justice
- April 24, 2006: Exclusive Interview with Mark Verheiden
- April 26, 2006: History of Superman in Wizard Brazil
- April 27, 2006: Exclusive Interview with Geoff Johns
- May 9, 2006: DC Launches 52theComic.com
- May 10, 2006: “Superman Returns” Prequel Comics Now a Miniseries
- May 23, 2006: An Open Letter from Joanne Siegel
- May 26, 2006: Dan Jurgens Talks Superman/Doomsday Omnibus
- May 29, 2006: Gerard Jones Responds to Joanne Siegel
- May 31, 2006: Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con
- June 1, 2006: Jimmy Palmiotti Talks Superman Returns Comic Books
- June 3, 2006: DC to Unveil “Superman Confidential” Comic Series
- July 3, 2006: PodCast on Martha Kent Prequel Comic
- July 18, 2006: Brad Meltzer Answers Fan Questions on “Justice League of America”
- July 18, 2006: Superman at the San Diego Comic Con
- July 21, 2006: Donner Joins Johns on “Action Comics”
- July 25, 2006: Donner, Johns and Kubert on Action #844
- July 28, 2006: Superman Flying to the Middle East
- August 3, 2006: Wizard World 2006 - Superman Homepage Report - Day One
- August 4, 2006: Wizard World Chicago 2006 - Day Two
- August 6, 2006: Wizard World Chicago 2006 - Day Three
- August 7, 2006: Nicieza Talks “Action Comics”
- August 7, 2006: Wizard World Chicago Report
- August 9, 2006: Wizard World Chicago A Success
- August 10, 2006: Read “52” Issues 1 to 5 Online
- August 31, 2006: Superman in Wizard #180
- September 19, 2006: Exclusive Interview with Ethan Van Sciver
- September 26, 2006: Matt Haley Talks “Superman Returns” Comic Adaptation
- October 2, 2006: Geoff Johns Talks “Action Comics”
- October 4, 2006: Donner's “Last Son” Previewed at EW.com
- October 4, 2006: Kurt Busiek Talks Superman
- October 6, 2006: Adam Kubert Talks “Action Comics”
- October 18, 2006: Behind the Scenes of an “Action Comics” Cover
- October 23, 2006: Talking “Superman” with Kurt Busiek
- November 17, 2006: “Action Comics #844” Gets Second Printing
- November 22, 2006: Exclusive Interview with Matt Haley
- December 6, 2006: Exclusive Jesse McCann Interview
- December 9, 2006: “Action Comics” Scheduling Changed
- December 21, 2006: Superman Artist Hardin Burnley Dies at 95
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