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KYLE'S BACK: ION TO GET HIS OWN DC SERIES
He was once one-half of one of comics most “heated” debates. Who is the true and rightful Green Lantern in the DC Universe? Earth Sector 2814 anyway…
While the half of the debate that rooted for the new-ringbearer-on-the-block Kyle Rayner might have had some concerns when DC and Geoff Johns brought back classic GL Hal Jordan with much ballyhoo this past year, they need fear not - young Kyle isn’t being out to pasture. He’ll return in his new heroic identity in a new spring 2006, post-“One Year Later” series Ion written by his creator Ron Marz and penciled by Greg Tocchini (Marvel 1602: New World, Thor: Son of Asgard).
Newsarama caught up with Marz in between Thanksgiving preparations for a few brief words about the new series…
"It's exciting to come back to a character that I had a hand in creating, especially right now”, Marz told Newsarama. “The DC Universe has a real sense of excitement and creation, obviously, and I'm really looking forward to being part of that. It's very nice to be invited to the party. The assignment is especially enticing because this isn't simply a matter of 'going home' again. Yes, I'm writing Kyle Rayner again, but the character is evolving, rather than standing still. Kyle will still be Kyle, but I'm getting to create new situations for him, and new characters around him. This is really going to be the next chapter of Kyle's career."
According to the writer, some of where he and Tocchini will be going with the series its origins in the upcoming Infinite Crisis: Rann-Thanagar one-shot special.
”There's a sacrifice in that story that impacts Kyle in a major way,” revealed Marz. “As it has a number of other times in Kyle's life, tragedy serves as a catalyst. And, of course, Infinite Crisis itself will also play a part in Kyle's future direction."
Marz also said he’s “absolutely thrilled” to be working with Tocchini on the series.
”I've been wanting to collaborate with him since I first saw his work back when I was working at CrossGen. I actually served as his editor when he was doing the DemonWars series, and he also did fill-in issues on various titles, each one better than the last.
”Whenever Greg's latest batch of pages would show up in the office, a number of the artists would stop what they were doing to go look at Greg's work. If you can get the likes of Butch Guice, Steve Epting and Paul Pelletier to put down their pencils and 'ooh' and 'ah' over your pages, you're doing something right.
”When we started talking about artists for Ion, I really campaigned for Greg, and I'm very thankful DC went out and got him. You hear it all the time - that some artist is going to be the next big thing. But I've been doing this long enough to recognize that a talent like Greg doesn't come along every day. He truly is something special, and I think this is the book that's really going to show it."
Look for much more on Ion here at Newsarama in the coming weeks…
Newsarama He was once one-half of one of comics most “heated” debates. Who is the true and rightful Green Lantern in the DC Universe? Earth Sector 2814 anyway…
While the half of the debate that rooted for the new-ringbearer-on-the-block Kyle Rayner might have had some concerns when DC and Geoff Johns brought back classic GL Hal Jordan with much ballyhoo this past year, they need fear not - young Kyle isn’t being out to pasture. He’ll return in his new heroic identity in a new spring 2006, post-“One Year Later” series Ion written by his creator Ron Marz and penciled by Greg Tocchini (Marvel 1602: New World, Thor: Son of Asgard).
Newsarama caught up with Marz in between Thanksgiving preparations for a few brief words about the new series…
"It's exciting to come back to a character that I had a hand in creating, especially right now”, Marz told Newsarama. “The DC Universe has a real sense of excitement and creation, obviously, and I'm really looking forward to being part of that. It's very nice to be invited to the party. The assignment is especially enticing because this isn't simply a matter of 'going home' again. Yes, I'm writing Kyle Rayner again, but the character is evolving, rather than standing still. Kyle will still be Kyle, but I'm getting to create new situations for him, and new characters around him. This is really going to be the next chapter of Kyle's career."
According to the writer, some of where he and Tocchini will be going with the series its origins in the upcoming Infinite Crisis: Rann-Thanagar one-shot special.
”There's a sacrifice in that story that impacts Kyle in a major way,” revealed Marz. “As it has a number of other times in Kyle's life, tragedy serves as a catalyst. And, of course, Infinite Crisis itself will also play a part in Kyle's future direction."
Marz also said he’s “absolutely thrilled” to be working with Tocchini on the series.
”I've been wanting to collaborate with him since I first saw his work back when I was working at CrossGen. I actually served as his editor when he was doing the DemonWars series, and he also did fill-in issues on various titles, each one better than the last.
”Whenever Greg's latest batch of pages would show up in the office, a number of the artists would stop what they were doing to go look at Greg's work. If you can get the likes of Butch Guice, Steve Epting and Paul Pelletier to put down their pencils and 'ooh' and 'ah' over your pages, you're doing something right.
”When we started talking about artists for Ion, I really campaigned for Greg, and I'm very thankful DC went out and got him. You hear it all the time - that some artist is going to be the next big thing. But I've been doing this long enough to recognize that a talent like Greg doesn't come along every day. He truly is something special, and I think this is the book that's really going to show it."
Look for much more on Ion here at Newsarama in the coming weeks…
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