Somebody Is the New DC Editor-in-Chief
That somebody is Bob Harras, who, most notably, was also Marvel Editor-in-Chief from 1995-2000. In fact, Harris was the last EiC Marvel had before Joe Quesada took charge; since then, he’s been running DC’s collections department.
I hadn’t even heard of Bob Harras before I woke up this morning, so I’ll let you comics nerds explain to me whether this is good or bad. I will say this, though — it does seem kind of weird that an ex-Marvel E-i-C is now the DC E-i-C. More importantly, wasn’t Marvel absolutely awful from ’95-00? I’m sure it wasn’t entirely Harris’ fault, and at any rate, he’ll still have to answer to co-publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee, and I bet Geoff Johns gets to boss him around to, but… hmm. (Via CBR)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.