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In case you missed it yesterday, comiXology announced that “The Pride” is returning tomorrow as a comiXology Original, and we ran an interview with “The Green Lantern” creators Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp as well as a preview of their next issue.
– Kicking off, writer Chris “Doc” Wyatt and artist Chris Grine announced a new all-ages graphic novel, “Alien Bones,” over at 1First Comics. The book, which is set in a universe where dinosaurs lived on other planets, will tell the story of “Liam Mycroft — the ten-year-old son of an intergalactic paleontologist — [who] ends up embroiled in an adventure that could affect the future of all of humanity after his father disappears, leaving him reliant on his own skills, as well as his best friend Dianna, the robot Standard-5, and his pet dinosaur, to save the day.” It will be released on October 2, 2019.
– Ahead of the first issue of “Ignited,” coming out this week, publisher Humanoids revealed its intention to print letters from school shooting survivors in the back of every issue, beginning with #2. “Ignited,” from creators Mark Waid, Kwanza Osajyefo, Phil Briones, is the first of Humanoids’ H1 superhero line, and begins its story in the aftermath of a school shooting. Paste Magazine published the first letter to be printed in “Ignited,” from a student named Kindra Neely. Other students who have survived school shootings wishing to share their thoughts are welcome to contact Humanoids via this email: contact@humanoids.com.
– Over at Marvel Comics, Sales and Communication lead Andrea Towers announced on Twitter that she has left the company. Towers had been with the company since March 2017. Her departure comes on the heels of the release of her book, Geek Girls Don’t Cry: Real-Life Lessons From Fictional Female Characters two months ago.
– Over the weekend, Jim Lee and Tom King, as well as Arrowverse actresses Nafessa Williams (Anissa Pierce/Thunder), Candice Patton (Iris West Allen) and Danielle Panabaker (Killer Frost), visited U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait. This visit was in conjunction with United Service Organizations (USO), a non-profit military support group. You can read more about the visit here.
– Collider reported yesterday that actor/comedian Jerrod Carmichael has been tapped by Quentin Tarantino to write a screen adaptation of the director’s comic book crossover “Django/Zorro.” The Dynamite Entertainment/Vertigo (DC) Comics crossover was written in 2011 by Tarantino and Matt Wagner with art by Esteve Polls following Tarantino’s work on Django Unchained. There are no other details on the project at this time.
– With the launch of Disney+, Disney’s forthcoming streaming service, only months away, Bloomberg ran an article about the complicated relationship many Hollywood studios have with Netflix, the streaming service that showed just how lucrative streaming can be. The detailed piece breaks down the complicated contracts many studios have with Netflix, including the note that Disney movies released between January 2016 and December 2018 would return to the service in 2026, which would include films like Black Panther. You can find the full piece here.
– Finally, Quartz Africa ran a piece about Congolese cartoonist Kiyindou Yamakasi and his fantasy comic series “Little Little Orishas,” which won the Lagos Comic Con award for Best Child Friendly Comic last year. The book was published by Niegerian publising company Vortex and is available free online in English here.
