ComicsAlliance’s Week in Review: January 8-14

This week Laura Hudson spoke at length with the back-from-hiatus Achewood creator Chris Onstad in a wide-ranging interview, Fiona Staples' beautiful cover for her upcoming book with Brian K. Vaughan Saga caught the notice of painter Dave Dorman for an unusual reason and Diamond Comics Distributors released its list of the top-selling comics of the just-ended 2011, giving direct market watchers plenty of data to mull over. And that is, obviously, just the tip of the comics news iceberg. For the ship-threatening bulk of news hidden below the surface, click past the cut to read what else we covered at ComicsAlliance this week.

PUBLISHING:

Much of DC's Batman line will experience a crossover in May, spinning out of writer Scott Snyder's work on the flagship Batman title.
Archaia is planning a Goblin King-focused Labyrinth prequel
Artist Walt Simonson will join writer Brian Michael Bendis on Marvel's Avengers for a six-issue story arc later this year
Making sense of Marvel's Captain America and Bucky title, which took the numbering of the previous volume of Captain America before changing its title, will get even more complicated, as it becomes a Cap team-up book with changing names, beginning in April with a change to Captain America & Hawkeye
Artist Frank Quitely will team with writer Mark Millar for new Image Comics series Jupiter's Children. Millar says it's going to be pretty good
DC announced the cancelation of six of their "New 52" titles, and the addition of six new titles, keeping their line at 52 books
Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil and Punisher comics will all crossover for a story entitled "The Omega Effect" in April
Prose phenomenon-turned-film phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is, of course, going to be adapted into a graphic novel, and publisher DC has announced its creative team and release date
Fresh off of the just-caneceled Hawk & Dove, Rob Liefeld will be taking over three more of DC's "New 52" titles
Marvel's upcoming Avengers Vs. X-Men event will include Hawkeye vs. Cyclops among its many match-ups
Dynamite Entertainment will be publishing a collection of Howard Chaykin's 1986 miniseries The Shadow: Blood and Judgement, originally published by DC
DC may be preparing to abandon the not-that-old redesign of their old "DC Bullet" logo for something that looks like...this

REVIEWS:

PREVIEWS:

Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell's Glory #23, for Image Comics
DC's Shade #4, featuring art by Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone
Nick Bradshaw's art on upcoming issues of Marvel's Wolverine and The X-Men
Nathan Edmondson and Nic Klein's Dancer for Image (plus some pages from Edmondson's The Activity)