With DC Comics’s zero month wrapping up this week, much of the news and discussion has predictably centered around what aspects of their year-old relaunch strategy have worked and which have not–but along the way, there was plenty more going on. The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman settled a lawsuit with his former collaborator Tony Moore which might have thrown the rights to the massively successful comics and TV franchise into question for years had it gone to court. Alan Moore announced a new series at his first comic book convention appearance in years, and then dove right into the controversy deep end by using that same convention appearance as an opportunity to blast Stan Lee, Rob Liefeld and even to say some not-so-nice things about H.P. Lovecraft, whose work his new book adapts.All this and much more…Last week around this time, the comics community was wondering what had prompted legendary writer/editor Stan Lee to cancel a number of public appearances, something that his represenatives chalked up to the generic explanation that it was a “serious circumstance.” Almost immediately, people began to worry about, and speculate about, the health of the 89-year-old creator, and shortly after we told fans to take a breath and not worry until we had something to worry about, so did Stan’s convention, the Comikaze Expo. Eventually, it came out that Lee had pacemaker surgery, but was doing fine.
