SDCC Was...

...well, a little disappointing, to be honest.

• There was a lot of news on the movie front, most of which we already knew- and some of which we really wished was true, even if it wasn't.
• We've got some fun new stuff from Marvel, like the new Strange Tales and Fred Van Lente's Power Man and Iron Fist mini.
• We've got an end to the Brand New Day status quo, with Dan Slott taking over all writing duties on Amazing Spider Man, which will now ship twice monthly.
• We've got a Grant Morrison penned Batman team book called Batman Inc. and a suggestion that Bruce Wayne, upon his return, is going to do something other than be Batman.
• We've got an 80-page Robert E. Howard anthology series from Dark Horse, entitled Savage Sword (which, oddly enough, I'm looking forward to- if for no other reason than that it looks like a good way to jump into some of Howard's characters).
• We've got some images from the next League of Extraordinary Gentleman.
• We've got a Morrison and Geoff Johns collab.
• We've got a shit tonne (that's an official measurement, by the way) of Captain America related projects.
• And we've got Kieron Gillen, a fantastic writer, on a new, awfully titled, X-Men series called Generation Hope.
  

While a lot of this is really cool, it's also run of the mill sort of stuff. Nothing explosive happened at SDCC, no announcements that were truly mind-bending. There weren't even that many announcements, all things considered. Are there no more exciting announcements, in a world where the Internet is basically just a huge rumor mill? Or are the companies sitting on something big for NYCC, which is an actual comics event?

We'll just have to wait until October to find out.

LATE EDIT: In retrospect, this post is perhaps a little cynical. After all, it can't be every year that Marvel buys Marvelman and promptly does nothing of note with the property.