Welcome to Multiversity’s coverage of day three of San Diego Comic-Con, also featuring news from the tail end of the second day. This post will be updated with all the comics-related news from throughout the day, and link any and all full reports. Check back later, and be sure to refresh this page constantly!
Comics:
– Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman, and Adele Matera will reunite for “Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Bounty Hunter and the Tea Brewer,” an original graphic novel starring Uncle Iroh — now the owner of the Jasmine Dragon tea shop — and the Fire Nation bounty hunter June. It will be released by Dark Horse Comics in Summer 2024.
– Writer Joe Casey and artist Dan McDaid will spotlight one of Superman’s greatest enemies in “Kneel before Zod,” a series releasing next year. Set before the destruction of Krypton, the comic will follow General Zod during an alien invasion. He “has lost everything,” including his son, wife, and empire, and wages guerrilla warfare against the invaders, “while amassing the tools he’ll need to take his revenge on the family that put him in this position in the first place… the House of El.” It marks Casey’s first work at DC since 2010, and a prelude will be featured in December’s “Action Comics” #1060.
– Tom King and artist Peter Gross (“The Unwritten”) are teaming up for a currently untitled series at BOOM! Studios, releasing Winter 2023. While no plot details were given, an image shown at the publisher’s panel indicated it would involve a dog shelter.
– Ubisoft, Studio Lounak, and Massive Publishing are teaming up for new Assassin’s Creed comics, beginning with the anthology “Assassin’s Creed Visionaries” in November. The first issue will feature a story by Ale Santos, Rafael Albuquerque and Marcelo Maiolo set during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s, plus a near-future segment by Stéphane Louis and Vera Daviet. Future issues will include stories by Enrico Marini, Mahmud Asrar, Olivier Vatine, Yanick Paquette, Niko Henrichon, Jonboy Meyers, and more. It is the first Assassin’s Creed comic at Massive, and the first from Lounak since 2013’s “Assassin’s Creed: Brahman.”
– IDW Publishing revealed “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II – Re-Evolution,” a direct sequel to the original series, starring the new Ninja Turtles — Yi, Uno, Odyn, and Moja — and their sensei Casey Marie Jones (Casey and April O’Neil’s daughter.) Writers Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz, artists Ben Bishop, Esau Escorza and Isaac Escorza, colorist Edgar Delgado and letterer Shawn Lee will return for the series, which starts December 13. The company also teased “The Untold Destiny of the Foot Clan,” a spiritual sequel to 2013’s “Secret History of the Foot Clan” by Mateus Santolouco, starring Karai, the original Casey, Natsu, and more.
– Stan Sakai is creating a new Space Usagi one-shot, “Space Usagi: Yokai Hunter.” The 32-page one-shot, colored by Emi Fujii, will see Usagi Yojimbo’s descendant Miyamoto Usagi II square off against various monsters, and be released by Dark Horse on October 11. It marks the first Space Usagi comic since the miniseries “Warrior,” also published by Dark Horse; before that, the character starred in two Mirage Comics series, “Death and Honor” and “White Star Rising,” from 1992 to 1994.
– The winners of the 2023 Eisner Awards were announced.
– DC revealed “Titans: Beast World,” an event series by Tom Taylor and Ivan Reis starting in November.
– Dark Horse announced a new Cyberpunk comic, “Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO,” written by Bartosz Sztybor with art by Jakub Rebelka, and lettering by Frank Cvetkovic. The book’s Romeo and Juliet-esque premise will reveal what happens when a member of the Maelstrom gang falls in love with one of the Moxes. Issue #1 will be released on October 18.
The publisher also teased “Frankie Reborn,” a spin on Bride of Frankenstein set “amidst the backdrop of pre-World War II Berlin and the ominous ascension of fascism.” The graphic novel was conceived by pinup artist Olivia De Berardinis, who debuted the concept as a Sideshow Collectibles statue last year. It will be created with Academy Award-winning animator and VFX artist Martin Meunier, and De Berardinis’s longtime partner Joel Beren.
Continued belowMovies and TV:
– At the Star Trek panel, a trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks season four (premiering September 7) was released, as was a five-minute first look at Star Trek: Discovery‘s fifth and final season (releasing next year). It was also announced this week’s episode of Strange New Worlds (which is a live-action Lower Decks crossover) will be released earlier today on Paramount+, with all the subsequent episodes getting moved up a week. Get the full details on everything announced, including Strange New Worlds‘s musical episode, at the official website.
– Warner Bros. announced DTV animated films based on “Watchmen” and “Crisis on Infinite Earths” (the latter titled Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths) will be released next year. Little else was said about the projects, although it was mentioned Kari Wahlgren will voice Harbinger in the latter.
– Amazon debuted the trailer for Invincible season two, and released an hour-long special, Invincible: Atom Eve, on Prime Video. The trailer reveals an enormous line-up of additions to the voice cast, including Peter Cullen (the original Optimus Prime) as the Viltrumite Thaedus. Season two, which will premiere on November 3, 2023, will be split into two, with the second four episodes of the eight-part season releasing in early 2024.
– Netflix dropped the second trailer for the live-action One Piece series, releasing August 31:
Video Games:
Skybound revealed Invincible Presents: Atom Eve, a visual novel with turn-based combat and branching storylines. The PC game can be wishlisted on Steam now:
