iBOOKS TO PUBLISH MEGATON MAN COLLECTION

[MattBrady]

Press Release

In a move certain to rock the diamond top ten, ibooks announced today the acquisition of rights to issue a 'Best of Megaton Man' collection featuring Don Simpson's comical superhero.

In a deal negotiated with Denis Kitchen and the Hansen Agency, ibooks acquired volume rights to a new collection that will be issued in Oct. 04 to remind the audience for pixar's THE INCREDIBLES of the character who made the world safe for modern superhero parody , which itself followed in the tradition of Harvey Kurtzman's MAD pastiches.

"MAKE MINE MEGATON" said Byron Preiss, in announcing the 176 page trade paperback. "Don Simpson is the man."

Simpson was most recently spotted as illustrator of Al Franken's new book, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

www.komikwerks.com , ibooks sister site, will sell the ebook version.

[Fazhoul]

Cool! Another classic back in print. If you haven't read Megaton Man before I highly recommend it.

[SpyGuy]

Hopefully, this means the original ten issues of MEGATON MAN and the RETURN OF MEGATON MAN mini-series. I've always wanted to see MM in a trade format, but now I really have a craving for a collection of Joe Staton's E-MAN that was published by First Comics...

The big question is, will Sterankovich be allowed to appear?

[fish1000]

176 pages means 7 or 8 issues, maybe the rest will follow if this does well - though as it is a 'best of' I wonder if it will be consecutive issues.