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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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Friday, July 26, 2024
#IReadsYou Movie Review: DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
#IReadsYou Movie Review: DEADPOOL
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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