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In case you missed it, MAD magazine is becoming a reprint title this fall, and will no longer be sold on newsstands. We also have an exclusive preview from Marvel of next week’s “Giant-Size X-Statix.”
– Dark Horse announced at Anime Expo they will publish an English translation of Minetarō Mochizuki’s “Isle of Dogs” manga, based on the Wes Anderson film of the same name. The company also revealed they will resume releasing Eiji Ohtsuka and Hosui Yamazaki’s manga “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” in an omnibus format.
– Meanwhile at the Expo, “Akira” creator Katsuhiro Otomo announced his third animated film as director, Orbital Era, a sci-fi adventure about a group of boys living in a space colony under construction. It was also announced “Akira” will be adapted into a new anime series, and that a 4K restoration of the original film will be released next year. Neither Orbital Era or the TV version of Akira, which are both being produced at animation company Sunrise, have a confirmed release date.
– Writers Scott Snyder and Charles Soule released a teaser image for their forthcoming, as-yet-unnamed series together. The comic, illustrated by Giuseppe Camuncoli, will be the dystopian tale of a United States that has sealed itself off from the rest of the world for thirty years – and the expedition that seeks to uncover what’s happened once the country finally opens its doors. More will be revealed on the series, which will be published by Image, later this month at San Diego Comic-Con.
– BOOM! announced “WWE SmackDown Live” #1, a one-shot written by Kevin Panetta (“Bloom”), with art by Kendall Goode (“WWE”), that follows WWE Superstar Becky Lynch as she prepares for the Friday night premiere of SmackDown Live. The comic will be released October 2, 2019.
– CBC reports Canadian cartoonist Greg Perry has turned down a job at Brunswick News Inc., citing social media attacks after he was named as the replacement for the recently fired Michael de Adder. De Adder was laid off earlier this week following the publication of a severe anti-Trump cartoon, which generated controversy over BNI’s apparent pro-Trump stance, and the personal attacks on Perry. “I don’t use social media, but person/persons who do have used it to essentially destroy my character and my cartoon work,” he said. “All this over a job that pays the same per month as a job at a grocery chain. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.”
– Per the Iran Book News Agency, London-based publisher Markosia will release an English edition of the four-part graphic novel “Jamshid: Sunset.” Created by Ashkan Rahgozar and Hoorakhsh Studios, the series tells the story of the legendary king of the same name from the country’s national epic, the Shahnameh. The first and second volumes will be released digitally and in book stores on July 10 and August 5, 2019, respectively.
– Finally, in further Iranian news, Reuters has a story on the website Dojensgara (Farsi: bisexual), which fights for LGBTQ acceptance in the country and Iranian diaspora. Among its resources is a comic called “One of Us,” written by Nima Nia, a gay Iranian in the United States, which explores the lives of those in Iran’s LGBTQ community. You can read the profile here.
