At Wizard World Chicago Marvel formally announced that Genndy Tartakovsky, the animation mastermind behind Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars, will both write and draw a four-issue mini-series featuring the 1970s superhero Luke Cage (aka Power Man).  Cage was the first African-American superhero to get his own comic book (Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1, 1972), and Tartakovsky plans to use the character's 1970s roots, including artwork from the original Cage comics by George Tuska and blaxploitation movie posters, for inspiration.

Tartakovsky's Luke Cage mini-series is just the latest example of the comic book industry's new cachet, which has attracted artists and especially writers from other media, an influx of talent that has reinvigorated the world of comics. 

Tartakovsky's mini-series is hardly Marvel's only project involving the Luke Cage/Power Man character.  Marvel Studios has signed director John Singleton to helm a Luke Cage film, which is likely to be among the first handful of Marvel's self-produced films.