You may remember that DC named a new writer for Action Comics post “War of the Supermen” about a month ago: Marc Guggenheim. If you didn’t, you didn’t miss much because DC named a new new writer (that’s right) today: Paul Cornell.
While that is very cool for Cornell and for fans, as Cornell is a superb writer with a great resume (including Captain Britain and the MI:13, the fantastic Wisdom mini-series, and Doctor Who), I’m very curious as to what happened here. If you read the post from The Source it seems to me as if DC Editorial and Guggenheim disagreed with the direction of the book, which led to Guggenheim being replaced. While he’s evidently not to sore about it (they also announce he’s working on another, secret project for DC), it is awfully fishy.
Still, Paul Cornell writing a Superman book is pretty exciting to me. While it isn’t Captain Britain, more Cornell is better as a rule.
