Oh, great. Now I see that ADD is alerting his readers to come here for regular WizardWorld updates, just because I happened to say that I’d actually be offering them. When will people learn not to believe what I say?
Oh well, here goes: There’s going to be an Ultimate Carnage, (essentially the evil twin of Venom, himself the evil twin of Spider-Man–in other words, this was not a character many people expected to appear in the stripped-down world of the Ultimate books) in the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man soon. (Hey, I’m at WizardWorld–you were expecting maybe an update on Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown graphic novel?) The reason I bring this up is because Bendis said Carnage would be someone we’ve already met in the series, and later on in the panel had to fend off rumors that the Ultimate version of high-school bully Flash Thompson was gay. “What’s his secret, then?” “You’ll just have to keep reading.” No one else seemed to put two and two together, so, uh, you heard it hear first: Ultimate Carnage will be Flash Thompson. I think.
Moving on, scuttlebutt has it that Jim Lee’s return to monthly drawerings of comic books is lighting a fire under the ass of the other non-Erik Larsen Image founders. Marc Silvestri is already a done deal on the final New X-Men arc, but will we see even the most famously prodigal artists cum millionaires cum whipping boys head back to monthly work?
You know, it’s just a lot of fun to be at a comic convention with two women who don’t really read comics, and certainly aren’t immersed in the geek culture of these things. I basically keep up a running stream of “And that guy played the Incredible Hulk and that guy played Willow and that guy played R2-D2 and that guy draws Batman and that guy writes Captain America and that guy runs Image and that guy writes Wolverine and that guy runs Marvel and that guy wrote Clumsy…” Hmm. Do you have that “one of these things is not like the other?” song in your head all of a sudden?
Finally, another blind item: Which friend of mine was involved in a threesome in which the guy insisted on referring to her and the other lady involved as Jean Grey and Rogue?