DC has finally announced their pick for a new General Manager position in Daniel Cherry III, a role that will carry significant authority within the company. The new role will have oversight of the following DC departments - business affairs, manufacturing, editorial, talent services, marketing, sales, brand and direct to consumer, and business development. He will also share business development duties with Anne DePies, DC's current senior VP of business strategy, finance, and administration... and is reporting directly to Warner Bros. global brands and experience president Pam Lifford. Original article on Newsarama aka Games Radar: DC finds its first general manager from the Activision Blizzard esports division https://www.gamesradar.com/dc-finds-its-first-general-manager-from-the-activision-blizzard-esports-division/ By Chris Arrant DC named former Activision Blizzard executive Daniel Cherry as senior vice president and general manager, Warner Bros. has officially announced. In this newly-created role, Cherry will work alongside DC's chief creative officer/publisher Jim Lee, with them both reporting directly to Warner Bros. global brands and experience president Pam Lifford. In this position, Cherry will have oversight of the following DC departments - business affairs, manufacturing, editorial, talent services, marketing, sales, brand and direct to consumer, and business development. He will also share business development duties with Anne DePies, DC's current senior VP of business strategy, finance, and administration. Coinciding with Cherry joining DC and working closely with the new general manager, CCO/publisher Jim Lee will take on "expanded responsibilities surrounding the overall DC brand." "Lee will bring his unmatched creativity, passion and innate knowledge of the DC characters and canon to the company’s efforts to evolve the brand and create relevance for new audiences around the world," reads Warner Bros.'s announcement. Scheduled to begin work on September 8, Warner Bros. calls Cherry "an award-winning brand innovator and marketing executive" and comes to DC after nearly three years as the chief marketing officer of Activision Blizzard's esports division. Prior to that, he worked in marketing for the alcoholic beverage company Diageo and the sports teams the New Jersey Devils and New York Cosmos. Cherry's hiring was formally announced just a few weeks after significant organizational changes within DC (and its parent company, Warner Media). Among the most significant was the layoff of longtime editor-in-chief Bob Harras, with editors Marie Javins and Michele Wells being named as interim replacements. At the same time, DC has been transitioning more into digital comics - where Cherry's Esports background could play in - an ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf47p3W-D6k

Joe Corallo stops by to offer a retrospective on one of the biggest X-Men launches of the last 25 years: Astonishing X-Men. It was also the arrival of "cannot miss" Joss Whedon to the Marvel universe. At this point the X-Men line was coming off of Grant Morrison's run, which Marvel had believed was isolating to fans and Whedon was at the top of his game of being the man who could do no wrong when it came to "nerd comic book culture". So how did this game-changing book come out over time? Part one of a two part series looking at this book, and the man behind it. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ux0l60jCZI