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In case you missed it, we unveiled Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch’s “Ultimate Invasion” #2, due out from Marvel this July.
– Marvel announced “Captain America” #750 will be released on the week of the Fourth of July. The oversized comic will pick up from the ‘Cold War’ crossover (which concludes the month beforehand), with stories by “Symbol of Truth” writer Tochi Onyebuchi and artist R.B. Silva, and “Sentinel of Liberty” creative team Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Carmen Carnero. It will also feature back-ups from past “Captain America” creators like J.M. DeMatteis, Dan Jurgens, and Daniel Acuña, as well as Gail Simone, Rachael Stott, Stephanie Williams, Marcus Williams, Cody Ziglar, and Sara Pichelli. It will be released with a main cover by Gary Frank on July 5.
– Marvel also announced “Marvel Age” #1000, an anthology that will mark the company’s 84th anniversary on August 30. The special, which is named for the promotional magazine that ran from 1983 to 1994, will feature contributions from J. Michael Straczynski and Kaare Andrews; Dan Slott and Michael Allred; Rainbow Rowell and Marguerite Sauvage; Mark Waid and Alessandro Cappuccio; Steve McNiven; Jason Aaron and Pepe Larraz; Ryan Stegman; and a Daredevil story by Armando Iannucci and Adam Kubert. It will also have a main cover by Gary Frank, and a Value Stamp like those that used to be printed on the publisher’s letters pages in the 1970s.
– DC unveiled “The Sandman Universe Special: Thessaly,” a 40-page one-shot starring the witch from Neil Gaiman’s original series, written by James Tynion IV with art by Maria Llovet. Picking up from her appearances in “Nightmare Country” and the new “Dead Boy Detectives” series, the comic will see her worm her way into writing a movie about deceased college student Madison Flynn, as a way to uncover her cause of death. “But she’s going to need a little help to keep the gig… perhaps from one of those Muses the King of Dreams told her about long ago…” The book will mark Thessaly’s first title since the 2004 miniseries “Witch for Hire,” which was created by Bill Willingham in collaboration with her co-creator, Shawn McManus. It will be released on July 11.
– BOOM! Studios announced “Alice Never After,” a five-issue follow-up to last year’s “Alice Ever After.” Writer Dan Panosian and artist Giorgio Spalletta will continue the tale of the grown-up Lewis Carroll Alice, who returned to Wonderland after escaping a life of abuse in the first volume. When “her abuser’s avatar with the uncanny grin [turns] the mad residents of a moonstruck world against her, she’s [left] clawing for a little rationality amongst the chaos. As Alice’s sister, Edith and her childhood friend Earl fight for a way to bring her back, Alice has to contend with whether or not her torment is due to her father, herself, or maybe a curious combination of both.” Issue #1 releases July 26.
– Image will publish “Scrapper,” a six-issue sci-fi series written by game designer Cliff Bleszinski (in his comics debut) and Alex De Campi, with art by Sandy Jarrell. Starting July 12, the comic follows two talking dogs who are part of the resistance in a post-apocalyptic domed city. The Top Cow imprint also revealed “Antarctica,” a sci-fi six-parter by writer Simon Birks and artist Willi Roberts. Described as “Stargate meets His Dark Materials,” the book follows a young engineer investigating the disappearance of her father, who lands an assignment at the secretive Antarctican research station he worked for. Issue #1 will be released on July 12.
– In Star Trek news, IDW Publishing outlined their upcoming crossover ‘Star Trek: Day of Blood,’ explaining it will consist an eponymous one-shot in July, and August and September’s issues of “Star Trek” and “Star Trek: Defiant.” Meanwhile, Paramount+ announced the long-gestating Section 31 series, starring Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, will now be an event movie. Yeoh, who’s won an Oscar since her last Star Trek appearance in 2020, quipped, “Live long and prosper (unless Emperor Georgiou decrees otherwise)!” Filming will begin later this year. While a TV movie, this will mark the first Trek film since 2016’s Chris Pine outing Star Trek Beyond.
Continued below– A new documentary film about Stan Lee, simply titled Stan Lee, will be released on Disney+ on June 16. The film, which marks 100 years since Lee’s birth on December 28, 1922, will present his life via “his own words and personal archival material.” It was directed by David Gelb, who was behind the Disney+ documentary series Marvel 616 and A Spark Story, and will also premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this June.
– Via Comic Book Yeti, Humanoids announced writer/artist Koren Shadmi’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Velvet Underground Story,” a biography of the ’60s rock band, and their manager, the pop artist Andy Warhol. The story will be framed by the band’s reunion at Warhol’s funeral in 1987. It will be released in bookstores on August 22, and comic book stores the following day.
– Finally, in a press release, Disney+ disclosed all eight episodes of American Born Chinese will be released simultaneously, instead of weekly. The show, loosely based on Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, and starring Ben Wang, Michelle Yeoh, Daniel Wu, Ke Huy Quan, and more, will be released on May 24.
