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In case you missed it, the first Deadpool & Wolverine trailer was released, while Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows will reunite for the Punisher prequel series “Get Fury.”
– Jonathan Hickman and Sanford Greene will team up on “Doom,” a one-shot imagining Doctor Doom’s final battle on May 15. Set in the near future, the comic sees Victor team up with Valeria Richards to stop Galactus from destroying the universe. The comic, which Greene wrote with Hickman in addition to penciling it, caps off Hickman’s time with Doom, who played a prominent role in his “Fantastic Four/FF,” “New Avengers,” and “Secret Wars” run from 2009 to 2016. He comments, “Sanford and I have been waiting to work together for quite a while, so when he told me that he’d come up with an amazing Doom story and he wanted me to help out, I jumped at the chance. It’s a giant-sized story about a giant-sized character and I can’t tell you how excited I am to get to write Doom again.”
– Skybound Comet announced “Sea Serpent’s Heir Book Three: Queen of Mercy” will be released in bookstores on Tuesday, June 3, 2024, and comic book shops and digitally the following day. The third and final installment of Mairghread Scott and Pablo Tuica’s young adult fantasy series, “Queen of Mercy” follows protagonist Aella after her aunt Kiana steals the power of Xir for themselves. “Can Aella stop the person who taught her everything she knows about magic from destroying the world?” Head to the link to check out a preview in the meantime.
– BlackBox Comics are joining Diamond Distributors’ FOC (final order cut-off) programme with their next series, “Bio Mechs.” Created by writer Jay Sandlin with publisher Dimitrios Zaharakis, artist Cleber Souza Lima, colorist Fabio Da Silva Bandres and letterer Cynna Ael, “Bio Mechs” follows a race of robotic aliens as they fend off an insectoid invasion of their home planet. Interested readers will now have extra time to pre-order the first issue before it hits shelves on April 24.
– “Gender Queer” creator Maia Kobabe’s latest book “Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding” will be released by Dutton Books for Young Readers on May 7, 2024. The book, written with Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier, offers a practical resource for trans, non-binary, and other people considering chest binding, based on interviews with 25 people of different ages and backgrounds. It was originally released to the study’s participants as a 32-page digital-only zine. The 64-page retail edition will be available in paperback, hardback, digitally, and as an audiobook.
– Via Empire, Lucasfilm announced Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace will return to theaters to celebrate its 25th anniversary on May 3. The rerelease is described as being a “limited time” engagement, suggesting it will run solely during the weekend of May the 4th. The film also received a new poster by Matt Ferguson, who designed the 40th anniversary posters for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The announcement was made in the lead-up to Empire‘s next issue celebrating 25 years of the prequels as a whole, featuring new interviews with the films’ cast and crew.
– The first two seasons of Resident Alien will be added to Netflix tomorrow (Tuesday, February 13) the day before the start of season three. The Syfy comedy-drama, based on the Dark Horse Comics series by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, stars Alan Tudyk as Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle, an alien whose mission to Earth becomes complicated by his newfound humanity. Season three — which consists of eight episodes — will premiere on Syfy and the USA Network at 10/9c time on Wednesday, February 14, and will be available to catch up with on Peacock.
– AIPT revealed Peter Tomasi, Ron Marz, and John Arcudi have found work as script editors at the Abu Dhabi-based studio Sandstorm Comics. The state-funded company, which was formed in 2020 to nurture Emirati talent within the country and overseas, released previews and details for their upcoming titles ahead of this weekend’s Middle East Film & Comic Con, which also revealed Kim Jacinto is among the non-Emirati creators working on their books. It is unknown when or where Sandstorm’s first books will be released, although they are expected to debut this year; you can learn more about the group in an interview with Forbes from December.
– Finally, almost a year after Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin’s coup attempt and death, French publisher Les Arènes have released a graphic novel about the mercenary group he led, “Wagner: The Secret History of Putin’s Mercenaries.” The Africa Report published a review of the book, written by journalists Mathieu Olivier and Benjamin Roger with art by Thierry Chavant, which chronicles the Wagner Group’s activities over the past decade in Ukraine, Syria, Mali, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and more. It is unknown if the book will receive an English release at the time of writing.
