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In case you missed it, Scout Comics have been accused by multiple comics creators of not paying them on time, and proceeding to ghost them.
– Via ComicBook.com, Dark Horse have announced “Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin – Silent but Deadly Edition.” This new edition of Geof Darrow and Dave Stewart’s “Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin” will feature 240 8″ x 12″ pages, and collect issues #1-7 of the 2022-23 series. The oversized edition will also be printed without lettering putting the art on full display. It will be released in bookstores on September 17, and comic book stores the following day.
– There is a GoFundMe circulating for Timothy Martin Earls, a set designer and art director for Star Trek, Lucasfilm and Disney, who has been out of work due to a shoulder injury. In the most recent update, Earls says while his shoulder injury has fully healed, he has yet to get back to work, and has not been able to pay his rent since January. You can view his GoFundMe here.
– Via Bleeding Cool, it was discovered that Jack Kirby’s daughter Susan was a ’60s pop star as part of Canadian/British girl band, She Trinity. She and Trinity opened for and played alongside The Who, The Kinks, The Tremeloes, Hot Chocolate and The Hollies. They even made it into John Peel’s KMEN’s British Pop Top Ten charts. For more, head on over to Bleeding Cool.
– In an interview with Popverse, Dan Slott has revealed he gave the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse creators a small note about the first film that drives the entire plot of the second. Slott states “I gave them the beat that was the 42 spider… I said to them in a note that the spider that bit Miles glitched, that meant by your rules, it had to come from another dimension. They didn’t have this, they just thought it looked cool to have the spider glitch in the first movie.” Furthermore, because the spider was not supposed to be in Miles’s universe, he should not have been Spider-Man, a sentiment echoed by Oscar Issac’s Miguel O’Hara. For more from the interview, head on over to Popverse.
– Via Screen Daily, Daniel Bernhardt (Bloodsport II) is attached to star in a Deathstalker reboot. The new film, based on the 1980s sword-and-sorcery movies produced by Roger Corman, was written by Steven Kostanski, who will also direct the film. Before the film comes out, Vault Comics will publish a “Deathstalker” comic from Tim Seeley and Jim Terry, which aims to bridge the ’80s films and Kostanski’s one. Production is set to begin in April, around the same time the comic begins on April 24.
– Sony have revealed a new trailer for The Garfield Movie starring Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie follows Garfield after an unexpected reunion with his father, Vic, who enlists him and Odie to help pull off a heist. The screenplay for The Garfield Movie was written by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove and David Reynolds, and directed by Mark Dindal. The Garfield Movie hits theaters this Memorial Day weekend.
– Via MP1ST, Rocksteady have announced that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be available on the Epic Games Store for purchase on March 26, 2024. That’s just in time for the start of the game’s Season One, which features the Joker as a playable character. Season One also comes with other perks, including a new Joker-themed playable environment, two episodes with new missions, new boss fights and enemies, new DC villain-themed gear, and finally, new Riddler content. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Season One will launch for free on March 28, 2024.
