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Monday, March 24, 2025
DC COMICS from Lunar Distributors for March 26, 2025
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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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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Steve and Alan Moore's Long-Awaited "The Moon and the Serpent Bumper Book of Magic" Arrives Oct. 15th
Monday, June 3, 2024
DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for June 4, 2024
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Friday, May 31, 2024
I Reads You Juniors: May 2024 - UPDATE #48
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NEWS:
MANGA - From BleedingCool: Graphic novel and manga publisher, TOKYOPOP, joins Marvel, IDW, and Dark Horse, as exclusive publishing clients of Penguin Random House Publishing Services.
IMAGE - From BleedingCool: Original Image Comics series, "Cyber Force," from one Image studio, Top Cow Productions, is being revived... again. The next version arrives via a one-shot, "Cyber Force Shootout," which is due Aug. 7th.
ELFQUEST - From SalonFutura: According to this site, Fox has given a "script commitment" to its previously announced hour-long animated series based on Wendy and Richard Pini's long-running comic book, "Elfquest." The cautious optimism can continue because this announced adaptation seems to have made it past the point others reached.
From YouTube: Sicangu Lakota and Cherokee artist con organizer, Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand, talks to "Elfquest" creators, Richard and Wendy Pini, about "Indigenous knowledge" and "social justice" in "Elfquest."
DC COMICS - From YouTube: DC Comics has created a comics trailer for its all-new "DC Elseworlds" comic book series.
EISNER AWARDS - From IGN: The nominations for the 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced July 26th during San Diego Comic-Con 2024.
DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: DC Comics might reveal a new logo at San Diego Comic-Con 2024.
SONY MARVEL U - From THR: Amazon has dropped Sony's Marvel drama, "Silk: Spider Society." Sony will shop it to other streamers.
EN MEMORIAM - From ComicBook: Comic book writer, artist, and editor, Don Perlin, has died at the age of 94, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. He co-created the character "Moon Knight" for Marvel Comics with writer Doug Moench, and he created the character "Bloodshot" for Valiant Entertainment with artists Kevin VanHook and Bob Layton. Perlin drew long runs on such Marvel titles as "The Defenders," "Ghost Rider," and "Werewolf by Night." Perlin was also very involved in the early years of Valiant Comics.
DC STUDIOS - From Deadline: "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" will be the second film released from James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Studios. It is scheduled for a Summer 2026 theatrical release.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Writer-artist Juni Ba talks about his "DC Black Label" miniseries, "The Boy Wonder," which reimagines Robin/Damian Wayne.
TITAN - From BleedingCool: Titan Comics is uniting numerous characters from the prose fiction of the late author, Robert E. Howard. That includes two of his signature character, Conan the Cimmerian and Solomon Kane. The crossover event is entitled "Battle of the Black Stone."
BOOKS - From BleedingCool: Puffin, Penguin's British children's book line, is launching "Puffin Graphics," a children's graphic novel line.
DC STUDIOS - From Variety: James Gunn has revealed a first-look photo of actor David Corenswet in his "Superman" suit for Gunn's film, "Superman," which is due July 11, 2025.
DC COMICS - From 13thDimension: DC Comics' legendary-among-fans "1982 DC Comics Style Guide" will finally be released to the general public as a hardcover art book. Featuring the art of Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, it has long been sought out by fans and collectors. Details are scare, but DC will reportedly publish it with "Standards Manual," an independent publishing imprint that says it "archives and preserves artifacts of design history and makes them available for future generations."
FCBD - From FCBD: Today, Saturday, May 4th is "Free Comic Book Day."
DC ANIMATION - From GamesRadar: The Cartoon Network/Adult Swim animated series, "My Adventures with Superman," gets a Season 2 preview trailer, which teases a new character. There is currently no release date for the next season, which will consist of 10 episodes.
MANGA - From BleedingCool: Abrams ComicsArt is starting a manga imprint named "Kana." In addition to publishing English-language editions of actual manga, Kana will release the trade collection of Frank Miller's "Ronin: Book Two," which will be retitled, "Ronin Rising."
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Marvel has released a checklist for its "Infinity Watch" annuals. There will be 9 annuals, with the first, "Thanos Annual," which is due in June.
COMICS TO FILM - From Deadline: Warner Bros is negotiating to close a seven-figure film-rights deal for "Avengelyne," a film project based of a comic book by Rob Liefeld (the co-creator of the character, "Deadpool"). "Avengelyne" is an angel who fights the forces of evil. Margot Robbie reportedly wants to star as the title character, if she likes the script, and Olivia Wilde is set to direct.
ALAN MOORE - From BleedingCool: October 2024 sees the release of Alan Moore's new book, "The Great When" (from Bloomsbury UK), the first in the "Long Line" series. The month will also see the publication of Moore's final graphic novel project, "The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic," from Knockabout in the UK and IDW/Top Shelf Productions in the U.S. The book was co-written by the late Steve Moore with art by the late Kevin O'Neill.
From GamesRadar: Bloomsbury, the book publisher of legendary comic book scribe, Alan Moore, is teasing something new that is coming from Moore. It may be the first in a series of novels he's been planning.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
I Reads You Juniors: February 2024 - Update #52
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NEWS:
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Marvel Comics is apparently committing to a $3.99 price point on more of its comic books. Currently, about half are $3.99 and half are $4.99.
EN MEMORIAM - From BleedingCool: Comic book artist, Ramona Fradon, has died at the age of 97, Saturday, February 24, 2024. Fradon was best known for drawing the Aquaman comic in "Adventure Comics for over 100 issues over a period from 1951 to 1961. She penciled just about every issue of the "Super Friends" comic book (1977-81). Fradon created the DC Comics' superhero, "Metamorpho," and she drew the "Brenda Starr, Reporter," newspaper comic strip from 1982 to 1995. Fradon's career began in 1950 and lasted until her recent retirement in January 2024.
DC ANIMATION - From YouTube: DC Comics has released an official trailer for the animated film, "Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two."
DARK HORSE - From THR: Dark Horse Comics will publish an eight-issue comic book adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 2005 novel, "Anansi Boys." The adaptation will be written by Marc Bernardin and drawn by Shawn Martinbrough.
EC COMICS - From NewYorkTimes: Oni Press is reviving EC Comics.
From BleedingCool: Lee Bermejo, Jason Aaron, and Rodney Barnes are among the first creators to join Oni Press' EC Comics revival.
From BleedingCool: The new partnership that is reviving "EC Comics" is being overseen by Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson and Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn alongside Cathy Gaines Mifsud and Corey Mifsud, the daughter and grandson of legendary EC Publisher William M. Gaines and administrators of William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. Writer Brian Azzarello is the latest big name creator to join the revival.
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SONY/MARVEL - From AwardsWatch: At the 51st Annie Awards, "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" wins in all six categories in which it was nominated, including "Best Feature."
TOP SHELF/BOOK NEWS - From BleedingCool: Alan Moore and the late Steve Moore's long, long-awaited book, "The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic," will finally arrive in October 2024. Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout LTD (UK), the book will be 352 pages in length at a cost of $49.99. It is available to preorder from several outlets including Amazon.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Artist Shawn Martinbrough speaks about his new series, "Red Hood: The Hill." Martinbrough will write and Sanford Greene will draw the series. "Red Hood: The Hill #1" is now in stories and available digitally.
COMICS TO HOLLYWOOD - From Forbes: Bestselling comic book writer, James Tynion IV, announced a new business venture, "Tiny Onion." The company is billed as a “full stack production house” for the development, packaging, marketing and cross-platform promotion of new creator-owned work. Media-oriented venture capital firm, Lyrical Media, has stepped forward with a low seven-figure investment in Tiny Onion’s seed round.
DARK HORSE TO TV - From Deadline: Netflix's "The Umbrella Academy," which is based on Gerard Way's comic book series, will begin its fourth and final season on August 8, 2024.
EN MEMORIAM - From BleedingCool: British comic book artist, writer, and editor, Paul Neary, has died at the age of 74, Saturday, February 10, 2024. Neary was editor-in-chief at Marvel UK from 1990 to 1993; wrote scripts for "Doctor Who Weekly;" and penciled Marvel Comics' 1988 Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. miniseries. However, Neary was best known for his work as an inker, inking Alan Davis' pencils, most notably on Marvel's "Excalibur comic books (1988-90). His most famous work as an inker may be inking Bryan Hitch's pencils over the better part of a decade, beginning in 1999. Neary inked Hitch on "The Authority" (1999) and "The Ultimates" and "The Ultimates 2" (from 2002 to 2007).
MARVEL STUDIOS - From THR: Marvel Studios has found its "Fantastic Four." Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn will star as the heroes in the "Fantastic Four" feature.
From JoBlo: The site gives up everything that it knows about Marvel Studios' long-in-development "Blade" film which is set to star Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali in the title role.
MARVEL/DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: Marvel and DC confirm that they will publish two Omnibuses reprinting all DC/Marvel crossovers and their Amalgam comics line. The collections are set to release on August 6th, 2024, with rich content listings. The two books are "DC Versus Marvel Omnibus" and "DC/Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus."
From BleedingCool: Marvel and DC Comics will reunite to republish their "Amalgam" line of crossovers and also other iconic crossover comic books.
MARVEL STUDIOS - From YouTube: "Deadpool & Wolverine" have a trailer and is due in theaters July 26th. Deadpool declares himself "Marvel Jesus" in the film.
From Variety: An article about the first "Deadpool & Wolverine" trailer.
SONY SPIDER U - From Deadline: At the 28th Art Directors Guild Awards, Patrick O'Keefe, the production designers of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," wins in the "Animated Feature Film" category.
EUROCOMICS - From BleedingCool: "BleedingCool" gathers some impressive statistics about the French comic book industry from an article in "The Guardian."
From TheGuardian: Here is that article: "France's comic book tradition is hitting new heights"
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: The Punisher hunts Nick Fury in "Get Fury," a Marvel MAX miniseries from writer Garth Ennis and artist Jacen Burrows.
From ComicBook: "Venom: Separation Anxiety" is another retro-set series like 2022's
"Venom: Lethal Protector." It will be written by "Lethal Protector's" scribe David Micheline and is set in Venom/Eddie Brock's early days.
COMICS - From GamesRadar: Sabir Pizada was one of the writers of Marvel Studios' "Moon Knight" streaming series, and he is co-writing the current adventures of Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan for Marvel Comics. Now, he is making his debut in creator-owned comics with "Dandelion," a one-shot anthology of sci-fi stories all written by Pirzada with each story drawn by a different artist.
ART - From BleedingCool: Apparently a large number of comic book artists who were represented by art sales agency, Cadence Comic Art, are departing the company.
BOOKS - From BleedingCool: In a recent social media post, author George R.R. Martin ("A Game of Thrones") says, "Now social media is ruled by anti-fans who would rather talk about the stuff they hate than the stuff they love and delight in dancing on the graves of anyone whose film has flopped." He is certainly talking about a subset of comic book and superhero fans.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Author N.K. Jemisin talks about her return to the world of her 12-issue miniseries, "Far Sector" (2019-2021, drawn by Jamal Campbell), in a short story for "DC Power 2024" one-shot special.
IMAGE - From BleedingCool: Jim Valentino, comics creator and publisher, wants to set the record straight about his time at Image Comics.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Marvel Comics reportedly launch a new "2099" series Summer 2024.
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