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In case you missed it yesterday, Marvel announced that “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” will end with issue #50 in November, and that “Agents of Atlas” will be returning for a miniseries in August. IDW also announced a new addition to their Marvel Action line with “Marvel Action: Captain Marvel,” and a new miniseries, “Starcadia Quest,” based on the tabletop game of the same name.
– Kicking off, the team behind the Marvel series “Star-Lord” are reuniting for a two-issue, oversized minsieries from Image Comics starting in August. Chip Zdarsky, Kris Anka, and Matt Wilson revealed the fantasy series “The White Trees” in yesterday’s Image August solicits, a story about three warriors in the mythical world of Blacksands who have to reunite to rescue their children. Zdarsky also revealed that the series may receive a hardcover down the line, but that it would not be released in trade paperback form.
– Ahead of the premiere of the television show from SYFY in 2020, Magadalene Visaggio and Jason Smith’s “Vagrant Queen” will be returning at Vault Comics for a second arc this fall. The series features a “child queen on a galactic run from revolutionary forces who want her dead,” and Visaggio teased a bigger second arc in anticipation of a second season of the show.
– Marvel revealed that, similar to its ‘Where’s Wolverine?’ post-credit scenes in issues of its comics early last year, “Absolute Carnage” will be getting similar preludes ahead of the debut of the event this August. These ‘Everyone is a Target‘ stories will begin in June with “Amazing Spider-Man” #24, “Deadpool” #14, “Symbiote Spider-Man” #3, “Fantastic Four” #11, and “Venom” #15, followed by “Invaders” #7, “Avengers” #22, “Black Cat” #2, “Captain Marvel” #8, and “Immortal Hulk” #20 in July.
– CBS All Access released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Trek: Picard yesterday, showcasing the first footage from the upcoming series on its streaming platform. The series showcases a man, seemingly Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) on his family’s vineyard, which was last seen in the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale “All Good Things…,” and ends with a woman asking Picard “Tell us, why did you leave Starfleet Admiral?” No formal release date has been announced for the show.
– Scholastic Graphix announced the acquisition of two new graphic novels. The first is “Aarthi and the Land of Salt,” by Sri Lankan artist Isuri, about “a 12-year old, her new friend, and younger siblings, who discover the secret world of an abandoned saltern and its magical inhabitants.” The second is Ethan Young’s “The Dragon Path,” about a character named Prince Sing, heir to the Wong Clan who “must overcome monstrous obstacles to help his clan return to their homeland.” Both middle-grade novels are set for publication in 2021.
– BuzzFeed reported that Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) is currently writing a script for a Star Wars movie based on the beloved 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, set 4,000 years before the events of the original trilogy. Kalogridis is the first woman to get a writing credit on a Star Wars film since Leigh Brackett received a co-writing credit with Lawrence Kasdan on The Empire Strikes Back. It is is unclear if the KOTOR movie will be the basis for the trilogy of films Rian Johnson is working on, or those Game of Thrones‘ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are crafting. Benioff and Weiss’s series will launch in December 2022.
– Funimation announced that the simulcast for the third season of the anime Attack on Titan will be delayed from Sundays until Wednesdays going forward due to episode leaks. The company stated, “To prevent further leaks, the licensor has decided to deliver the show materials to Funimation after Japan’s broadcast has concluded on Sunday.” The next episode will release May 29th for “Funimation, Hulu, Crunchyroll and all of the sublicensees around the world.”
Continued below– Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced the release date for the home release of Shazam!. The movie will come to digital on July 2, 2019 and then on 4K, Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on July 16. The physical release will also include a new “Shazam” motion comic. Warner Bros. also revealed that the in-development DC Super Pets has been delayed from its original release date of May 21, 2021, to May 20, 2022.
– DC Universe Online will be coming to the Nintendo Switch this summer, making this the first time the MMO has debuted on a Nintendo console. The free-to-play game launched from Daybreak Games in 2011 on PC and the PlayStation 3, and later the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and has grown considerably over the last decade.
– Finally, The European Press Prize announced its 2019 winners and runner-ups at their award ceremony at Gazeta Wyborcza in Warsaw, Poland. “Palmyra, the Other Side,” a graphic style report, by Guillermo Abril and Carlos Spottorno which was published in the newspapers El País Semanal (Spain) and Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, won in the Innovation category. Congratulations!
