A Glastonbury teenager is claiming to have the longest name in the world – Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

Captain Fantastic – formerly George Garratt – changed his name by deed poll ‘for a bit of a laugh’ through a service he found online.

Comic writer Geoff Johns (who got me on board Green Lantern for the first time) will be writing the stories for the DC Universe Online MMO game. That game is gonna make me buy a PS3.

This is pretty cool.

“There have been comic book biographies before, that’s not new,” said Scott Dunbier, special projects editor at IDW, which will publish the comics. “But we’re talking about a story that isn’t finished: two views of the candidates, two men who are both vying for what is arguably the most important job in the world.”

The comics went from ideas to production in about a week. “We don’t have a lot of red tape,” Mr. Dunbier said of IDW, a division of the IDT Internet Mobile Group. The small company is dwarfed by publishing giants like DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment. “Larger companies will investigate something for three months and have a number of meetings to decide if it was feasible.”

Apparently some kind of shakeup is coming to DC comics. Good, I think. Countdown was just a mess, and Final Crisis doesn’t feel epic enough to me just yet even though its an issue in. The main problem is that DC is not feeling like the shared universe it should be. Ironically, in the last couple of months Superman is getting markedly better. It’s getting back to its roots and the storylines are getting the right sort of heft required of the company’s flagship character. Also: Gary Frank is the man. I’m so glad the whole Phantom Zone mess is over (I’m just sad that the abomination known as Christopher Kent will live to torment us at some future date). I’ve also started reading Green Lantern for the first time in decades, but JLA is just sort of treading water and I’m probably about an issue away from dropping Supergirl.

And no, I’m not going to read Marvel. I don’t have anything against Marvel per se, it’s just that I (obviously) grew up reading Superman and have a much stronger emotional connection to DC than I ever could with Marvel. That said, I’ve been reading the Astonishing X-Men trades and those are good, but that’s probably – in part at least – because they don’t seriously connect to the existing Marvel Universe. Unless it turns out that Jessica Alba is a Skrull, I could not care less about Secret Invasion.

What I have been reading are these awesome DC Showcase collections, with hundreds of pages of classic DC in black and white for $15-20 bucks. Nothing is better than hokey ’50s dialogue in a thought balloon!

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In light of the very stupid “deaths” of Superman and Captain America (as well as multiple deaths for the Flash), this would be incredibly stupid. It’s just the height of unimaginative thinking. It’s one thing to kill of Robin or Bucky (although that doesn’t quite work since both Bucky and Jason Todd came back to life), but a whole other to kill of a character that everyone knows is the center of a multi-billion dollar licensing machine.