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In case you missed it, “Matty’s Rocket” dominated this year’s Glyph Awards, Popeye’s set to star in a series of YouTube shorts celebrating his 90th anniversary, and Titan Comics is publishing both an English translation of “The Prague Coup” and a four-issue series based on The Raid.
– Krypton‘s coming back to Syfy for a second season, reports Variety. No word on the exact date of Krypton‘s return, but Variety says to expect the Superman prequel back on the air sometime in 2019. (You can bet we’ll have some thoughts on the second season.)
– Eric Shanower’s Eisner Award-winning “Age of Bronze” series is coming back in full color. The Beat says Shanower plans to release a new, colorized version of “Age of Bronze, Vol. 1: A Thousand Ships” this September. Harvey Award-nominated artist John Dallaire will provide the colors.
– Marvel’s “Hunt for Wolverine” will wrap up in “Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends,” a Charles Soule-written one-shot tying together the loose threads of the various “Hunt” miniseries. Newsarama has more details and a look at the issue’s cover. In other Marvel solicitation news, it looks like this iteration of “Cable” is cancelled come August.
– Over 1.5 million people turned out for this year’s Free Comic Book Day, according to the event’s official website, and retailers gave out 5.3 million free comics. Additionally, according to FCBD’s 2018 Retailer Survey, 90 percent of retailers rated the day as “Extremely Positive” or “Positive.”
– The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Gerry Duggan and David O’Sullivan’s “Analog” is likely coming to the big screen, courtesy of Lionsgate and John Wick trilogy director Chad Stahelski. The series’s first issue was released in April.
– The Reporter‘s also got word of a new Aladdin prequel, “Disney Princess: Jasmine’s New Pet,” coming from Disney and Dark Horse Comics. The 48-page graphic novel is aimed at younger readers and will release in October.
– Variety reports Liam Neeson is in talks to join the next Men in Black film, directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. Neeson is expected to play the head of the MIB’s UK division. The film is set for release May 17, 2019.
– First Second Books have acquired Alina Chau’s graphic novel “Marshmallow & Jordan,” according to Publishers Weekly. The middle grade comic is about Jordan, a “former star youth basketball player, […] paralyzed from the waist down in an accident and [who] befriends Marshmallow, a magical elephant who helps her discover that water polo could be the sport in which she can continue her athletic dreams.” The book is due out 2020.
– “Scarlet Spider” artist André Lima Araújo shared his rejected pitch for “Old Man Parker,” set in a world where a grizzled Spider-Man took New York City back from King Venom. Check out some pitch pages and character designs at Araújo’s tumblr.
– Damon Lindelof’s upcoming HBO Watchmen series will tell an original story, according to an open letter the writer posted to his Instragram. The show will take place in the present, reflecting today’s politics rather than those of the ’80s. “We have no desire to ‘adapt’ the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago,” said Lindelof. “Those issues are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted. They will, however, be remixed.”
