Comic book weirdness

[yendi]

First, Peter David, from his blog: I've been informed by my editor on SUPERGIRL, Lysa Hawkins (who is also my editor on "The Fallen Angel") that "Many Happy Returns"...SUPERGIRL #75-80...has performed so well that it's going to be collected as a trade paperback when the run ends. So the first eight issues and the last six are collected. Interesting bookends.

So the sales on the book's final storyline were bad enough for them to end it, and good enough to release a trade. OK.

And then, from Zentertainment:

BROTHER VOODOO Series in the Works at SCI FI
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The SCI FI Channel has announced it is developing a
live-action two-hour movie and backdoor pilot based
on the MARVEL Comics character BROTHER VOODOO.
The show will revolve around the adventures of
Jericho Drumm, a doctor and voodoo priest drawn
back into a world of black magic after the death
of his brother.
http://www.scifi.com



For those who are saying, "who?" Brother Voodoo may be the lamest character in Marvel history. He's leagues beyond The Living Monolith, or Fin Fang Foom, or Stilt-Man. His only real purpose was becoming a running gag in Fred Hembeck's nifty little Marvel talk show strips (collected in Fred Hembeck Sells the Marvel Universe) And they picked him for a tv series.

It had better be a fucking comedy.

Off to Elayna's school meeting now.