The Kind Of Thing That Should Happen More Often

“The Next Issue Project” is a damn great idea. Essentially, Image Comics are gathering together a bunch of great creators to grab the reins on a whole mess of obscure, public domain, golden age superheroes, for the purpose of continuing their adventures. It’s up to the writers if they want to do it in an old school style, as some sort of a revamp, a parody, or what have you. Each issue will be the next issue of some old comic from back in the day, done as an anthology–as were they all back then–like the dubiously named Crack Comics whose cover you see (drawn by the born-for-a-project-like-this Mike Allred).

I heard about this, right here, over at my favorite comic blog ever: Comics Should Be Good!

The most important link, however, is to Comic Book Resources’ interview with Erik Larsen, who’s spearheading the whole thing. Peep: Next Issue Project

I am quite honestly not exaggerating when I say that my mouth watered a bit at seeing the current list of creators who are onboard. This all looks incredible.