Author Archives: Christopher Chiu-Tabet

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Ava DuVernay to Direct New Gods Movie

By | Mar 15, 2018 | News

Deadline reports that acclaimed American filmmaker Ava DuVernay is to direct a New Gods movie for Warner Bros. and DC Films. The studio is expected to close a deal and appoint a screenwriter to collaborate with DuVernay on the film, which will presumably be based on Jack Kirby’s original ‘Fourth World’ saga of comic books […]

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Columns
We Want Comics: Get Out

By | Mar 14, 2018 | Columns

Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out was a rarity: an Academy Award-winning horror film that appealed to non-horror fans and which drew attention to hidden, less belligerent (but still insidious) kinds of racism in the United States. OK, you may wonder, but why does it need to become a comic book? Well, We Want Comics […]

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Titan Comics Announces “Rivers of London: Water Weed”

By | Mar 14, 2018 | News

Ben Aaronovitch’s novel/comic book franchise Rivers of London continues to expand with “Water Weed,” a four-issue miniseries starting at Titan Comics in June. The series, which will be the sixth “Rivers of London” comic book since 2015, sees London Metropolitan Police Constable – and apprentice wizard – Peter Grant drawn into a cannabis smuggling plot […]

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AfterShock Launches “Lost City Explorers” in June

By | Mar 13, 2018 | News

At The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision blog, AfterShock Comics have announced “Lost City Explorers,” a new Goonies/Stranger Things-inspired series from writer Zack Kaplan and artist Alvaro Sarraseca. The comic is about a teenage girl and her friends who go looking for her missing father, an antiquities professor, beneath Manhattan, and discover Atlantis has been under […]

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“By Night,” a BOOM! Studios Series by John Allison and Christine Larsen Starting in June

By | Mar 10, 2018 | News

At CBR, “Giant Days” creator John Allison and artist Christine Larsen (“Adventure Time,” “Holy Diver”) have announced “By Night,” a 12-issue comic that will be published by BOOM! Studios from June. The series follows two childhood friends, Jane, a chemistry major and aspiring documentary filmmaker, and Heather, an amateur urban explorer, who reunite to get […]

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“The Backstagers” Expands Into Prose Novels Written by Andy Mientus, and Illustrated by Rian Sygh

By | Mar 10, 2018 | News

Writer James Tynion IV and artist Rian Sygh’s BOOM! Studios series “The Backstagers” is becoming a middle-grade prose series, written by actor/singer and now first-time author Andy Mientus (Smash, The Flash), and illustrated by Sygh. The books will be published by the Abrams Books imprint Amulet. Tynion and Sygh’s original eight-issue “Backstagers” comic, which was […]

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Reviews
“Scarlett’s Strike Force”

By | Mar 9, 2018 | Reviews

It must be tough being a G.I. Joe fan these days. The live-action films didn’t exactly capture a new generation, the toy line dried up with them, and the Renegades cartoon was canceled after one season. IDW Publishing haven’t had much luck with their rebooted G.I. Joe comics after the end of Chuck Dixon and […]

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