NY Comic Con Updates

It actually surprised me that the New York Comic Con managed to draw lots of people in the anime/manga industry. I expected that some of the announcements that were made there would have been reserved for the more dedicated anime/manga conventions.

Anyway, since my tastes are weird, here are some choice bits from topics that interests me:

• Joss Whedon just turned in the script to Dark Horse for Buffy (Season 8) #1 but comic production takes a long time, around 9 months.
• A Kull miniseries from Dark Horse and hopefully a Solomon Kane miniseries to follow (FYI Kull and Solomon Kane are titles of Robert E. Howard, a.k.a. the creator of Conan the Barbarian [not the detective!]).
• Dark Horse releasing the MPD Psycho manga.
• Tokyopop will be releasing the Twelve Kingdom novels this year.
• Viz will be re-releasing Uzumaki and Gyo, which I assume will be shrunk down to their new manga format. Oh and they're also releasing Houshin Engi.
• Sadly, still no hope for seeing the rest of the Saint Seiya series.
• In a strange reversal, Yen Press will be releasing the Spiral manga instead of Tokyopop.
• A Wild Cards comic!
• An Orson Scott Card comic set in the same world as Ender's Game.