All that Continuity stuff never really caught on, will he ever surprise us again?

If he turns out to be correct about the Earth expanding, I'll be extremely surprised.

He wanted $20 to have your picture taken with him in Baltimore...that surprised me.

*shookashookashookashooka*

of course he will

Did he ink those?

That dodge and burn coloring just kills his art. His old stuff looked much better with the flatter, limited coloring.

I'm keeping my original albums of that one posted above. And I'll get the recolored reprint.

So that's not even new stuff from him?

Yeah, I vote NO. So surprises anymore.

I hope Neal doesn't touch up the art like he did on the Batman hardcover collections of his work. I want that authentic seventies flavor.

this is his cover to Batman Odyssey #1

I kinda like it and I kinda don't.

Are those adamantium steel claws protruding? Did he do interor art?

hes doing 12 issues, the first 2 inked by himself, the rest by various folks

I would very much like to see other people ink him. I'm just not feeling his inks.

I definitely don't.

Gerry, do you know when it's out?

Not me. When I was in college, he was my all-time favorite comic book artist. On my first ever trip to NYC, I took a tour of the locations of the various comic book companies in the city, including Marvel, DC and Continuity. DC didn't let me past the lobby, Marvel welcomed me with open arms (got to meet Byrne and he let me have photocopies of a Hulk issue he was working on at the time before it was inked!), and Adams? I could see him sitting at his desk in his office but his secretary stopped me at the front door and he declined to let me say hello or even get an autograph. In a way, I understand he couldn't take time to deal with every fanboy that might drop by, but compared to the reception I got from Byrne I was quite disappointed in Mr. Adams' approach.

Neal Adams had an office and a secretary at Marvel in the mid-80's?

He said he went to Continuity studios, skimmer.

BATMAN: ODYSSEY, a 12-part mini-series launching in July, brings Adams back to the character he helped redefine. Adams’ energetic, realistic and sweeping style is both timeless and modern, and its an understatement to say his return to The Dark Knight has been something fans have been clamoring for.

ODYSSEY finds Batman facing a series of seemingly unrelated challenges, villains and allies, old and new, that push him to his limits as never before. The battles get more intense and, in turn, more deadly, The Dark Knight Detective discovers that there might be an over-arching force behind his troubles. And if this is so, if there is a dark and mysterious matrix being super-imposed over Batman’s life… what sort of life-changing voyage must he go on to free himself from this powerful and insidious direction?

Worse… where can he go that he has never gone before for his desperately needed Odyssey?

“I have been collecting bits and pieces of Batman’s life and time over the years since I was doing Batman regularly,” Adams said. “With even this massive series, I haven’t been able to shove them all in. but the juiciest and richest morsels are there. Have comic books always been this much fun?”

Adams, who will write and pencil the entire series, will also ink the first two issues, followed by pairings with some of the most lauded artistic collaborators in the comic book industry. What more do you really need? Neal Adams. On Batman. July 2010.

See you there.

Summer of '84, I walked into the DC offices, looked around the lobby for a second (Clark mannequin was sitting there), said hi to the receptionist and walked right past her into the offices. Walked all around, stuck my head into a few open doors to see if I recognized anyone, checked out the breakroom where Mike Grell was discovered, used the facilities, then left.

I came back the next day and the person at the reception desk stopped me as I tried to walk in again.

I was in town for a few weeks, my plan was to just hang out there until I met someone.