Jeff Smith Returns to Comics

I was reading the DC solicitations for this coming February, and lo and behold, what did I see but Jeff Smith's name! The long awaited Smith series promised us several years ago is finally coming out, and it looks pretty good!

Smith will be redoing the origin of Captain Marvel in Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil, a four issue prestige format comic. Kind of a "Year One" thing. I have been waiting for while to see what Smith would be doing next, and truth be told, I had completely forgotten he was supposed to be doing this. Bone is still one of my all time favorite comic series, certainly in the top five, and I hope he brings his keen sense of timing and humor to the book. That's not to say that I didn't like the end of the Bone series, there are just lots more parts from the start that stick in my mind. Seriously, the arrival of winter at the end of the first issue, the first time he meets Rose, the Red Dragon saying "Never play an ace if a two will do", and scene by the waterfall with the two rat creatures and Fone Bone on the branch are among the best scenes ever put to paper. It's like George Carlin's "7 words you can't say on TV" act, or the scene from, well, actually any scene from "Blazing Saddles" "S'cuse me while I whip this out!" God, that's funny just thinking about it. And it's the same way for many of the scenes from Bone, you don't even have to actually be reading it, just thinking about it is enough.

So I hope he brings some of his great comedy to Captain Marvel, but what ever he does, expect to hear me talking about it in the store this coming February.