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– A new Dick Grayson miniseries from writer Kyle Higgins and artist Trevor McCarthy is coming this summer. Titled “Nightwing: The New Order” the story is “of a future world…where superpowers have been eliminated and outlawed.” The story centers around Grayson and his team of Crusaders, who hunt down and eliminate anyone with meta human abilities. “Nightwing: The New Order” is set for a release this August.
– Fox has released a teaser trailer for their new X-Men TV series The Gifted. The show revolves around the Strucker family, who discover their children possess extraordinary powers. On the run from the government, they join an underground network of mutants to fight for survival. A full trailer is slated for May 15.
– Marvel also has a new Sales & Communications Administrator. Andrea Towers has been brought over from Entertainment Weekly. Her previous experience with Marvel comes from working as an Assistant Editor for Entertainment Weekly as well as EW’s point person for comics coverage. In her role at Entertainment Weekly she also worked with Marvel for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posters. Towers has also written about comic books for CBR, ComicBook, Paste, Image Comics’ “Image+”, and the Marvel website.
– Sinclair Broadcast Group is looking to acquire Tribune Media, which owns the newspaper strip characters Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Brenda Starr, and Terry and the Pirates. The deal was has a reported value of $3.9 billion.
– Feeling nostalgic? Funko has a new toylike coming in June. Batman ’66 is a series of 3.75-inch-scale action figures. The series includes Batman, Batgirl, Catwoman, King Tut, Bookworm and both the Otto Preminger version of Mr. Freeze and the Eli Wallach version of Mr. Freeze.
– Long time “All-Star Batman” series writer Scott Snyder has confirmed that “All-Star Batman” #15 may be his last Batman story. The new arc is titled “First Ally” and will run five issues starting with “All-Star Batman” #10 and running through issue #15. Newsarama interviewed Snyder more about the project and his work behind “All-Star Batman.” That interview can be found here.
– Amazon announced the debut of comiXology’s Guided View experience for the Kindle app for iOS, Fire tablets, and Android. Kindle comic book fans will be able to browse 85,000 digital comics and graphic novels on any size device. Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading members have access to Guided View on titles like “Lumberjanes,” “Hellboy,” “Pathfinder,” “Peanuts,” and “Star Trek.”
