I just read a half dozen or so reviews of JLA #30 that all refer to it as the “conclusion” of a three part story arc. I don’t have my copy of the issue yet, so I don’t know if there’s a “Part 3 of 3″ on the cover, or if there was some solicitation error that gave this impression.  Maybe it was my doing, and somehow the ending of #30, with the hench-villain defeated, but still proclaiming the imminent arrival of his much more powerful master, while yet another villain reveals that he is holding something over Icon’s head and is forcing him to do bad things he doesn’t want to do, and that there will be more, was somehow ambiguous on the point. So let me clarify: JLA #30 was part three of a seven part story. There are another eighty-eight pages of the story remaining. It won’t be over until June.

Now in its fourth successful year, the Glyph Comics Awards (GCA) continue to honor the best in black comics and creators. 

Last year I was part of the winning team for the Fan Award for our work on “The New Fantastic Four,” this year I’m honored to be nominated twice:

Story of the Year - Justice League of America: The Second Coming; Dwayne McDuffie, writer, Ed Benes, artist

Best Writer - Dwayne McDuffie, Justice League of America

Click here to see the other nominees in the strongest Glyph Awards field yet.

Written by Dwayne McDuffie; Art and Cover by Ed Benes

Featuring an “Origins and Omens” backup story! Can the entire combined might of the Justice League of Amercia and Dr. Light stand up to the cosmic entity known as Starbreaker as he continues consuming the sun? Could this be another Final Night for the DC Universe?

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #33
Written by Dwayne McDuffie
Art by Rags Morales
Cover by Ed Benes

It’s Dharma vs. Starbreaker for control of the greatest source of power in the 
DC Universe. No matter the victor, the Justice League loses!
On sale May 27 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

Not mentioned on this cover.

No, really! I know it isn’t blurbed on any of the three alternate covers, but there’s an extensive roundtable interview, reuniting me with Milestone Co-Founders Denys Cowan and Michael Davis (Derek Dingle has far too much class to show up for something like this). We talk about the history of the company, argue about how we named it, tell a good story about Mark Gruenwald, and then I let slip a huge secret about the upcoming Milestone mini-series that concludes our original continuity… or does it?

Not mentioned on this cover either.

Yep. Oh for three. We’re in there, though.

I’ve got a story (reprinted from Justice League of America #16) in the new paperback collection of Dan Jurgen’s Tangent series:

Collects Tangent: Superman’s Reign (2008) #1-6 and Justice League of America (2006- 2nd Series) #16. Written by Dan Jurgens, Ron Marz and Dwayne McDuffie. Art by Jamal Igle, Fernando Pasarin, Matthew Clark, Joe Benitez, Robin Riggs, Jesse Delperdang and Victor Llamas. Cover by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund. The Tangent Earth and our DC Universe collide in this collection.