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DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for December 3, 2025
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DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for October 22, 2025
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Friday, February 28, 2025
I Reads You Juniors: February 2025 - UPDATE #44
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NEWS:
DIAMOND - From BleedingCool: Bankrupt-ass Diamond Comic Distributors has sent invoices to comics shops it claims owes it money - about 22 million dollar specifically, with about 5 million of that irrevocably lost.
DC STUDIOS - From Variety: The website offers this article that includes a lot of DC Studios news, including two "Batman" films, a possible "Teen Titans" film, and a second season of "The Penguin." There is also news about several new animated series based on DC Comics' properties.
FANTAGRAPHICS - From BleedingCool: Fantagraphics Books has pulled out of Free Comic Book Day 2025, including pulling their "Lost Marvels" FCBD title. This story will be updated as information is available.
MARVEL/DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: There is big news out of "ComicsPRO," the comic book retailer summit held in Glendale, California. DC Comics Editor-In-Chief Marie Javins and Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief CB Cebulski followed the Keynote speech to take to the floor and announce a new crossover between the two comic book publishers. Two one-shots, "Marvel/DC" produced by Marvel Comics and "DC/Marvel" produced by DC Comics, will be published later this year (2025).
DC CINEMA - From Deadline: The "Constantine" sequel just won't go away. The film's star, Keanu Reeves says that he and the film's director, Francis Lawrence, have put together a story and recently pitched it to DC Studios.
From DCBlog: It's the 20th anniversary of the 2005 film, Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves and featuring the DC Comics' character, John Constantine. With the release of a new 4K Blu-ray edition of the film, director Francis Lawrence looks back at his directorial debut.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Writer Matt Fraction and artist Jorge Jimenez will launch a new #Batman #1" September 2025.
COMICS - From BleedingCool: Midtown Comics' will revive its UCS Comics Distributors to help small publishers left without distribution because of Diamond Comic Distributors' bankruptcy. Previously, UCS distributed new issues of DC Comics to comic book stores for a short time back in 2020.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Writer G. Willow Wilson talks about the new "Poison Ivy" ongoing comic book that she is producing with artist Marcio Takara.
DISNEY - From BleedingCool: In case you might sue the Walt Disney Company in the future, you might have to write them a letter now informing them that you are opting out of "arbitration agreements" and "class action waivers."
MANGA - From Variety: In 2025, written media has become the most pirated data on the Internet, surpassing films and TV. This is thanks in large part to piracy of manga.
COMICS - From BleedingCool: Blood Moon Comics has shut down as a result of the bankruptcy of Diamond Comic Distributors.
LGBTQ - From BleedingCool: The comic book writer and co-creator of such characters as "Black Lightning," "Misty Knight," "Black Goliath," and "Tigra," Tony Isabella, has come out as transgender at the age of 73. Her name is now "Jenny Blake Isabella."
MARVEL STUDIOS - From ComicBook: In March 2024, Disney fired Beau DeMayo the showrunner of the Disney+ animated series, "X-Men '97." Now, DeMayo is addressing the firing and the incidents around it in a video posted on YouTube.
MARVEL - From THR: Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld has once again declared that he is done with Marvel after he detailed perceived slights surrounding the premiere of the 2024 hit film, "Deadpool & Wolverine," and its afterparty.
COMICS - From BleedingCool: Massive Publishing has signed with Lunar Distribution in the wake of Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy. Massive has also created a new entity, "Massive Indies," as a new sub-distribution initiative to help independent publishers and self-comics publishers get distributed through Lunar. Massive has also released their terms of use for this initiative.
COMICS - From BleedingCool: Joe Quesada and his new publisher, Amazing Comics, are at the "Angoulême International Comics Festival" in France this week. The company, which involves a partnership with Mad Cave Studios and French publisher, Dupuis, and have been announcing new projects in their bid to redefine graphic novels globally. The announcements include new comic books by Garth Ennis, Steven Paul Judd, Derek Kolstad, Christopher Priest, Esad Ribic, J. Michael Strączyński, Ethan Sacks, Ryan Stegman, Charles Dorfman, and Ronan Toulhoat.
NEIL GAIMAN - From BleedingCool: The fast-moving, ongoing demolition of Neil Gaiman's prestigious career as a world-famous author continues with the announcement that Marvel Comics has no plans to publish "Miracleman: The Dark Age," the final work in Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's "Miracleman trilogy."
From Variety: In an exclusive story, "Variety" is reporting that Netflix has cancelled "The Sandman" series after Season 2. Apparently, Netflix was considering dumping the show before the current Neil Gaiman controversies.
From ComicsBeat: Apparently, Neil Gaiman is being locked out of the Kickstarter-funded comic book adaptation of "Good Omens," the 1990 novel he co-wrote with the late Terry Pratchett.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
I Reads You Juniors: October 2024 - UPDATE #57
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NEWS:
SONY SPIDER-MAN U - From Variety: "Venom: The Last Dance" has a soft U.S. debut at the box office compared to the two earlier films, "Venom" and "Venom: Let There Be Carnage." "The Last Dance" opened at 51 million dollars, topping the 10/25 to 10/27/2024 weekend box office.
COMICS - TheGuardian: In an essay for "The Guardian," legendary comic book writer, Alan Moore, says "Fandom has toxified the world."
MANGA TO ANIME - From CBR: "My Hero Academia: You're Next," the latest anime film adapted from the hit manga franchise, is breaking the franchise's previous box office records in Japan.
NYCC/DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: DC Comics has confirmed that writer Jeph Loeb and artist Jim Lee returning to Batman in 2025, possibly for "Hush 2," their sequel to 2002's "Hush" ("Batman #608-619). Their first issue may be "Batman #158."
From BleedingCool: DC Comics has apparently confirmed that it is reviving its "Vertigo Comics" imprint. It will reportedly publish comic books featuring DC Comics characters and creator-owned properties.
COMICS - From DailyDead: Editor-publisher James Aquilone and writers Rodney Barnes and Steve Niles talks about the upcoming three-issue comic book miniseries, "Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters."
DC STUDIOS - From Variety: Director James Gunn confirms that "Krypto the Superdog," will appear in his 2025 film, "Superman."
COMICS - From ComicsBeat: Mad Cave Studios has announced that it will publish "Pop Kill." The mature humor comic is co-written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Dave Johnson, with art by Juan Santacruz, colors by Brian Reber, and letters by Sean Konot. Issue #1 debuts Feb. 2025
DC CINEMA - From THR: According to an insider who spoke to "The Hollywood Reporter," Actor Zachary Levi thought his role as "Billy Batson/Shazam" in the "Shazam" movies was his ticket to being like Dwayne "The Rock" or actor Chris Evans, "Steve Rogers/Captain America." "But it didn’t happen for him, and he’s bitter about that," says the insider.
DC STUDIOS - From Deadline: Actor Aaron Pierre (Netflix's "Rebel Ridge") will play "John Stewart" in HBO's "Lanterns," based on the DC Comics' "Green Lantern" comic book franchise.
COMICS - From GamesRadar: Actor and writer David Dastmalchian ("Ant-Man," "The Suicide Squad") is one of the writers of the upcoming comic book series, "Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters." Published by Monstrous Books, the series is based on the former ABC cult supernatural drama, "Kolchak the Night Stalker."
DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: Writer Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee famously teamed up for Batman #608-619 (2002) for the storyline now known as "Batman: Hush." They will reportedly reunited for a "Batman" ongoing comic book series that will debut in either March or April 2025.
BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: The site explains why the domestic box office for "Joker: Folie a Deux" did not meet even minimum expectations. For instance, this "Joker" sequel sold 2.5 million tickets compared to last Fall's superhero bomb, "The Marvels," which sold 3.3 million tickets.
DC STUDIOS - From EW: DC Studios co-chief James Gunn has announced a new film project that mixes animation, puppetry, and CGI. "Dynamic Duo" will focus "Dick Grayson" and "Jason Todd," the first holders of the "Robin" moniker. Matt Reeves, director of "The Batman," will produce, but the film won't be part of Reeves' "universe," which includes "The Batman" and the Max series, "The Penguin."
IMAGE COMICS - From BleedingCool: Image Comics is launching a new creator-owned horror imprint, entitled the "Ninth Circle." The members of the imprint are comic book creators: Garth Ennis, Marguerite Bennett, Joe Pruett, Ram V, and Adam Glass, alongside strategic advisor and founder Michael Bogner (SVP of Legal Affairs at ABGO) and company representative David Stone. Ninth Circle's lead investor is Kimberly Steward , who produced of the film, "Manchester By The Sea" (2016), and executive produced "Suspiria" (2018). Steward's production company, K Period Media, will partner with Ninth Circle to produce select titles.
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Monday, June 17, 2024
Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for June 19, 2024
Sunday, December 31, 2023
I Reads You Juniors: December 2023 - Update #59
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NEWS:
MARVEL - From Newsarama: The site has a preview of "Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1," which arrives January 3rd, 2024.
DC CINEMA - From CBR: Beginning Jan. 1st, 2024 the first Aquaman film will be available to stream on Netflix.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Artist Pepe Larraz reveals his "Mysterium" armor design for Iron Man.
DC CINEMA - From THR: With the release of "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom," the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) comes to an end. "The Hollywood Reporter" looks back.
DC STUDIOS - From Deadline: Director Matt Reeves has his own corner of the DC cinematic universe thanks to his 2022 hit film, The Batman. DC Studios co-boss James Gunn says that Reeves is also developing a series for the main "DC Universe" that is set in "Arkham Asylum," the psychiatric hospital/prison that houses some of Batman's most notorious foes.
DC CINEMA - From Deadline: Director David Ayers is still trying to get Warner Bros. to release his director's cut of his 2016 film, Suicide Squad. He explains how the studio's cut and release of the film interprets actor Jared Leto's "Joker" differently than his cut does.
DC COMICS - From YouTube: Tom Taylor talks to Rosie Knight as DC Comics' YouTube channel about the crossover event, "Titans: Beast World."
TITAN - From BleedingCool: Titan Comics is the newest Diamond Comic Distributors "Premiere Publisher."
DYNAMITE - From YouTube: Writer Declan Shalvey talks about his upcoming "ThunderCats" comic book with Dynamite Entertainment.
EN MEMORIAM - From BleedingCool: British comic book artist, Ian Gibson, has died at the age of 77, Monday, December 11, 2023. Gibson was best known for his work featured in the British comic book magazine, 2000 AD, especially "Robo-Hunter" and "The Ballad of Halo Jones (with Alan Moore). For DC Comics, he drew the late 80s' "Millennium" miniseries and the "Mister Miracle" ongoing series. He worked on three "Star Wars" miniseries for Dark Horse Comics in the late 1990s.
SONY MARVEL U - From ComicBookMovie: Amazon's Prime Video previously announced a "Silk: Spider Society," a Spider-Man character series from Sony Pictures. The series' writing room was halted by the Writer's Guild strike. Now, that the strike is over, the guild wants Amazon to restart the writing room... or get sued.
DC STUDIOS - From ComicBookMovie: Actor Edi Gathegi shows off his muscly body, likely buffed up to play "Mister Terrific" in "Superman: Legacy."
From Deadline: "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor, Sean Gunn, will play the character "Maxwell Lord" in DC Studios films. Gunn in the brother of writer-director and DC Studios co-boss, James Gunn.
MARVEL - From Deadline: After more than two years, Disney and subsidiary, Marvel, have reached a settlement with the estate of acclaimed comic book artist, Steve Ditko. Lawyers for Disney and the Ditko estate filed court papers on Dec. 6th that effectively ended the pricey dispute. A final affirmation of the settlement is expected in the coming weeks.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Writer Jeff Parker talks about his special four-issue weekly series, "Batman - Santa Claus: Silent Knight." The first issue debuted Dec. 6th.
DYNAMITE - From YouTube: Garth Ennis talks to Dynamite Entertainment about his upcoming "James Bond 007" comic book for the publisher.
From ComicsBeat: A sneak peek at "James Bond 007 #1" by writer Garth Ennis and artist Rapha Lobosco, which is set for Jan. 10th, 2024.
SONY SPIDER-MAN U - From Variety: Sony Pictures Animation's "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is among the American Film Institute's (AFI) "Top 10" list of best films of 2023.
From Deadline: The site is offering the chance to read the screenplay for "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse."
DARK HORSE - From Forbes: Mark Millar is moving his Netflix/Millarworld comics catalog from Image Comics to Dark Horse. That includes over 40 previously published graphic novels and five new series being launched in 2024. There will also be a new series of omnibus editions.
DC STUDIOS - From Deadline: DC Studios co-boss James Gunn says that he is 99.9 percent finished with the script for "Superman: Legacy." Concerning "The Brave and the Bold," there is no script yet.
COMICS TO FILM - From THR: Director Zack Snyder has regained the rights to "Blood and Ashes," which was originally meant to be a sequel to the films, 300 and "300: Rise of an Empire," both of which are based on and inspired by Frank Miller's miniseries, "300." He plans to develop it for Netflix.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Actress Iman Vellani, has played Kamala Kahn/Ms. Marvel in the Disney+ series, "Ms. Marvel," and in the recent film, The Marvels. Now, she is co-writing the fourth issue of "Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant" with Sabir Pirzada.
DYNAMITE - From ComicsBeat: Writer Greg Weisman talks about his upcoming Dynamite Entertainment comic book series, "Gargoyles Quest," and his 399-page "Gargoyles" time line.
From ComicsBeat: Writer Greg Pak talks about his upcoming Dynamite Entertainment Disney comic book, "Lilo & Stitch," which is based on the 2002 animated film, Lilo & Stitch.
IMAGE - From ComicsBeat: Robert Kirkman's Skybound has launched a Japanese division, "Skybound Japan," to focus on Japanese IP within Japan's entertainment industry.
DC ANIME - From Crunchyroll: It's a big day for the "Suicide Squad ISEKAI" anime. The main voice cast has been revealed. The character posters debut, and a new trailer arrives.
DYNAMITE - From AIPTComics: Declan Shalvey and Drew Moss talk about their upcoming "ThunderCats" comic book that is part of Dynamite Entertainment's recent deal with Warner Bros. "ThunderCats #1" debuts Feb. 2024.
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