by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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NEWS:
SONY MARVEL U - From ScreenRant: "Venom: Let There Be Carnage," the sequel to Sony's hit "Venom" film, will introduce the "Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane." Some consider Ravencroft to be the equivalent of DC Comics' "Arkham Asylum."
COLLECTIBLES - From YahooNews: You may or may not have heard that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought on some kind of Pokemon card collecting mania. Retail chain, Target, has announced is suspending in-store sales of Pokémon and sports trading cards amid safety concerns as customers vie for the collectibles.
COMICS - From GamesRadar: The 2015 cult film, "Turbo Kid," is getting a comic book prequel, "Turbo Kid: Apple's Lost Adventure."
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Marvel promises that the Marvel Universe will be changed forever by June's "Planet-Sized X-Men."
COMICS - From BleedingCool: eBay changes its comic book categories - much to the chagrin of collectors.
TOYS - From BleedingCool: "Marvel Legends" reveals three new toy sets related to the "MCU Infinity Saga."
DARK HORSE - From TheBeat: Paul Tobin and Ron Chan talk about their new graphic novel, "Earth Boy," which is out now.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: "Old Man Cable" is back in "Cable: Reloaded #1.
MEMORIAM - From CBR: Jesse Hamm, a comic book writer and artist and essayist, has died. His works include the graphic novel, "Good As Lily" (for DC/Minx), and issues of "Batman '66" and "Hawkeye" for Marvel Comics. Many knew him for his "Tips from Jesse Hamm" Twitter account.
MARVEL - From CBR: Marvel Comics has offered a first-look preview of its upcoming "Moon Knight #1" by Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio.
STAR WARS - From BleedingCool: Alan Dean Foster is among the writers who will now be paid by Disney for the "Star Wars" novelizations they wrote. Disney had stopped paying royalties since assuming the publication rights to these novels.
IMAGE COMICS - From THR: Oscar-nominee Ryan Coogler will produce and Oscar-winner Regina King will direct a film adaptation of the Image Comics titles, "Bitter Root."
EUROCOMICS - From BleedingCool: Publisher NBM has released a preview of its Free Comic Book Day 2021 (Aug. 14th) offering, "FCBD 2021 Dungeon is Back."
SONY MARVEL U - From YouTube: Sony has released the official trailer for "Venom: Let There Be Carnage," which is due in theaters Sept. 24, 2021.
MILLARWORLD - From FastCompany: Is Netflix using "Jupiter's Legacy" to launch its own superhero universe?
DC CINEMA - From ComicBook: "Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot has confirmed what fellow "Justice League" actor, Ray Fisher (Cyborg), has previously said: Joss Whedon did indeed threaten her career, Gadot confirms in an interview with Israel television, "N12."
DARK HORSE - From TheBeat: Dave McKean talks about his new comic, "Raptor: A Sokol Graphic Novel."
MARVEL - From GamesRadar: Artist John Romita, Jr., who is returned to Marvel Comics, has drawn some promotional art for the upcoming story arc, "The Trial of Magneto."
YAOI MANGA - From BleedingCool: SuBLime Manga announces the release of four titles for "Pride Month" (June 2021), including "Dick Fight Island, Vol. 1."
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Writer, Ram V, talks about bringing magic and myth to "The Swamp Thing" and "Catwoman."
DC TV - From DCBlog: The DC Comics' title, "Naomi," is now a TV series from The CW. "DC Blog" has a first look at the series' lead, Kaci Walfall.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Marvel has announced that real-world celebrities will appear as characters in its "X-Men: Hellfire Gala" event story line. One of them is Grammy Award winning rapper Eminem.
DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: DC Comics will resume publishing a print edition of its "DC Connect" monthly solicitations for retailers and readers.
MARK MILLAR - From
Deadline: Mark Millar talks to "Deadline." One of the bits of news from the Q&A is that the series adaptation of Millar's comic book, "The Magic Order," is back on track with Netflix.
From
Deadline: Mark Millar, comics creators and Netflix exec, has announced several new film and TV projects based upon his creator-owned comic books.
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COMICS TO FILM - From THR: Actress Hannah John-Kamen, who played Ava Starr/Ghost in "Ant-Man and the Wasp" has reportedly been cast as the lead in Millennium Film's "Red Sonja." The character was created for Marvel Comics' "Conan the Barbarian" comic book and was an amalgamation of several Conan the Cimmerian characters created by the late Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan.
COMICS - From WeGotThisCovered: Robert Kirkman, the co-creator of "The Walking Dead" comic book, is working on working on a film that will be a spin-off of "Dracula." Kirkman says the film will be "an extremely violent comedy."
DC CINEMA - From CBR: Actor Michael B. Jordan offers an update on the live-action "Static Shock" film that he is producing. The film has a writer and a draft is coming together.
DC CINEMA - From THR: Apparently, Warner Bros. Pictures is committed to hiring a black actor to play Superman and also to hiring a black director to helm the film. The film is currently being written by an African-American, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
INTERVIEW - From 2000AD: "The Walking Dead" comic book artist, Charlie Adlard, talks about life before and after "The Walking Dead."
LOS BROS - From YouTube: "Love and Rockets" creators, brother Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, were live at this year's virtual MoCCA fest in this video.
FANTAGRAPHICS - From
ComixExperience: In a rare video interview, Barry Windsor-Smith talks about comics and his new book, "Monsters."
From
IGN: The site has nine preview images from Barry Windsor Smith's "Monsters."
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MARVEL - From BleedingCool: The site has learned that Oscar-winning screenwriter and also comic book writer, John Ridley, will be the writer of a new "Black Panther" comic book series with Juann Cabal as the artist. The new series will reportedly begin in August.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: The mutant character, "Fantomex" will headline the prose novel, "Triptych." The novel is part of Marvel and Aconyte Books' "Xavier's Institute" line.
TITAN COMICS - From YouTube: Titan has produced a preview video trailer for its new comic book series, "ExtraOrdinary," which is set in the world of author V.E. Schwab's "Vicious" and "Vengeful" novels.
ALAN MOORE - From TheGuardian: Two years after announcing that he had retired from comics, Alan Moore, the illustrious author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has signed a six-figure deal for a “groundbreaking” five-volume fantasy series as well as a “momentous” collection of short stories.
ARCHIE - From BleedingCool: The site has a preview of the new trade paperback collection, "She's Josie." The book reprints stories from various "Josie" comic books published by Archie Publications in the 1960s. Eventually, the title would become known as "Josie and the Pussycats."
EN MEMORIAM - From BleedingCool: The veteran American comic book artist, John Paul Leon, has died at the age of 49, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Although Leon began his professional career with Dark Horse Comics, he first gained fame drawing the groundbreaking comic book series, "Static," for DC Comics' Milestone Comics imprint. His most recent work was the four-issue miniseries, "Batman: Creature of the Night" (2018-20) with writer Kurt Busiek.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Arriving July 20th is the first issue of a four-issue "Shazam" miniseries that spins out of "Teen Titans Academy."
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: DC's new horror imprint, "DC Horror," will launch with a tie-in comic book to the upcoming film, "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It."
BLACK COMICS - From LATimes: Comics have been racist for decades, and a new generations of African-American comics creators are re-inventing them.
MANGA - From CBR: Mangaka Naoki Urasawa, the renowned "Monster" and "20th Century Boys" author, is launching his next project: an official YouTube art channel.
ARCHIE - From BleedingCool: Here is a preview of FCBD 2021 Archie Past Present & Future Fun. The comic book is described as a sort of "Crisis on Infinite Archies," and will be given away on Free Comic Book Day, which has been moved to August 14th.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Here is a first look at "Heroes Reborn Young Squadron #1."
DC TV - From DCBlog: Actor Finn Wittrock will play "Green Lantern/Guy Gardner" in the HBO Max series, "Green Lantern."
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Here is a first look "Reptil #1," the first issue of the upcoming Marvel Comics four-issue miniseries.
DC CINEMA - From VeroZackSnyder: "Justice League" director Zack Snyder has posted some production photos of actor Wayne T. Carr filming scenes as John Stewart/Green Lantern for "Zack Snyder's Justice League." Warner Bros. did allow those scenes to be included in the final film.
CARD COLLECTING - From VICE: There is some kind of dire situation going on in the world of collecting "Pokemon" cards ... according to the website, "Vice."
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Marvel Comics announced a new middle-grade original graphic novel starring Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel set to hit stores in September 2021 from writer Nadia Shammas and artist Nabi.
DC COMICS - From SupermanHomepage: July 2021 begins a new era for DC Comics' "Superman" line of titles. New direction means new logos, and artist Darran Robinson gives readers a look at his designs for the new logos for several "Superman" titles.
DC FILMS - From Deadline: "Young Rock" actor, Uli Latukefu, who plays the college football era Dwayne Johnson on the NBC hit series, is reuniting with the action star for New Line/DC’s "Black Adam."
DC FILMS - From BleedingCool: Voice actress, Stana Katic, talks about the new animated DVD film,
"Justice Society: World War II," and the character she plays in the
film, Wonder Woman.
DC CINEMA - From BleedingCool: Voice actress, Elysia Rotaru, talks about the new animated DVD film, "Justice Society: World War II," and the character she plays in the film, Black Canary.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: The blog details the big changes coming to the Superman line of titles in July.
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