When nostalgia attacks: I'm not one of those aging fanboys so handicapped by delusions of long-gone adolescent glory that I think comics reached their creative peak around 1985. But I'm occasionally a sucker for comics nostalgia.

Case in point: DC Comics' official announcement at Wizard World Texas that Marv Wolfman and George Perez's long-promised "New Teen Titans" graphic novel, "Games," finally will see the light of day sometime in 2004.

I will have this. I don't care how much it costs.

DC, at long last, also released more information about its new Focus line of books. I still think it sound as if they're trying to stretch the "H-E-R-0" concept into four more titles. We'll see ...