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– Image announced Stephanie Phillips’s pirate comic “A Man Among Ye” will return with issue #5 on July 14, along with a new interior artist, Josh George (“2000AD Future Shock”), taking over from Craig Cermak. The second arc of the series will see Anne Bonny and Mary Read dealing with the fallout from Calico Jack Rackham’s betrayal.
– Marvel announced “Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters — Jabba the Hutt,” which will be the first of four separate one-shots tying into the upcoming Star Wars crossover. Written by Justina Ireland with art by Luca Pizzari, the comic (out in July) will explore how the gangster slug reacts to Boba Fett losing possession of Han Solo. ‘War of the Bounty Hunters,’ which will unfold in all of Marvel’s Star Wars comics set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, will start with “War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha” on May 5.
– Lucasfilm revealed Phoebe Waller-Bridge has joined the cast of Indiana Jones 5, and that John Williams will return to score the film. Waller-Bridge previously played L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story; details on her Indiana Jones character are, like everything else about the film, top secret. The movie, which will see director James Mangold succeed Williams’s longtime collaborator Steven Spielberg, will mark the composer’s first movie since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Indiana Jones 5 will be released on July 29, 2022.
– Marvel also began outlining their upcoming event ‘Extreme Carnage,’ which will begin with July’s “Extreme Carnage Alpha,” by writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Manuel Garcia. Writer Clay McLeod Chapman and artist Chris Mooneyham will create the second chapter, “Extreme Carnage: Scream,” and the third, “Extreme Carnage: Phage,” will team-up writer Steve Orlando and artist Gerardo Sandoval. The other Life Foundation symbiotes, Riot, Lasher and Agony, will presumably star in the next chapters in August.
– Paramount have moved up the release date of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins to July 23, 2021, while Hasbro revealed the collector’s toy line for the film, giving us our first look at Henry Golding as Snake Eyes, Andrew Koji’s Storm Shadow, Úrsula Corberó’s Baroness, Samara Weaving as Scarlett, and Haruka Abe’s Akiko. Paramount also announced the next Star Trek movie will be released on June 9, 2023, but declined to say which of the projects in development at Bad Robot Productions it will be.
– In CW news, actress Peta Sergeant (Snowfall) has joined the cast of Supergirl as Nyxly, a kindly 5th Dimensional Imp like Mxyzptlk trapped in the Phantom Zone; and the network released a trailer for Legends of Tomorrow season 6, premiering May 2.
– In charity news, Humble Bundle have started a sale of manga titles from Kodansha to benefit Stop AAPI Hate; and Justice League director Zack Snyder is selling character portraits to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Snyder lost his daughter to suicide before leaving the film in 2017.
– Josie and the Pussycats cast members Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid reunited over Zoom to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary. The movie adaptation of the Archie Comics series received mixed reviews, and was a box office bomb when it was released on April 11, 2001, but has since become a cult favorite. Universal Pictures organized the reunion on YouTube, presumably agreeing the satirical musical comedy was ahead of its time.
– Finally, rapper DMX, whose song “X Gon’ Give It to Ya” was used prominently in the Deadpool movies, died from cardiac arrest on Friday, April 9. He was only 50 years old. DMX (real name Earl Simmons) had struggled with drug addiction since he was a teenager, and had been on life support after a heart attack on April 2. Survivors include his 15 children and his mother.
