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-Tom King hopefully has not jeopardized his DC contract by posting this teaser image for December’s Dark Matter comics. The image, clearly taken at San Diego Comic Con, shows a number of previously announced ‘Dark Matter’ comics, like the Challengers of the Unknown, but also highlight a number of characters we’ve seen in the “Dark Days” prologue issues, such as Mister Terrific, Plastic Man, and Metamorpho. Could this possibly be related to Jeff Lemire tweeting out a Mister Terrific image earlier today? We may find out this weekend.
-Matteo Pizzolo, co-founder of Black Mask Comics and the writer of Calexit, is using his writing royalties from the title to form a SuperPAC called Become the Government. The first printing of “Calexit” #1 sold out in its 25,000 copy run in one day and is heading back to the presses. Become The Government will be putting monetary support behind first time candidates for office in the mid-term 2018 election. In addition, essays will appear in the back matter of “Calexit,” documenting the process of setting up and running the SuperPAC.
–“Cyber Force,” Marc Silverstri’s original Image creation, is returning to print later this year in a new series celebrating 25th Anniversary of Image Comics. Writers Matt Hawkins and Bryan Hill and artist Atilio Rojo have made a 25 issue commitment to the title with no planned skip issues or breaks. Leading out of events in “IXth Generation” Volume 2, the entire project will be rebooted, allowing new readers an easy path into the property. Silvestri will be providing covers for some of the issues and revising some of his original characters for the new book.
-IDW is set to launch a Star Trek Discovery comic series on October 4th, hot on the heels of the September premiere of the TV series. “Star Trek” comics veterans writer Mike Johnson and and artist Tony Shasteen are joined by Discovery TV series writer Kirsten Beyer on the book. Nothing beyond the creative team and the mention of Klingons is known about the initial issue. We do know that Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire are creating a ‘Ships of the Line’ series of covers for the series though.
-“Blue Beetle” gets a new creative team with October’s issue 14, as writer Christopher Sebela and artist Thony Silas join the book in October. Sebela, via Twitter, may have revealed that the series will be ending with issue #19.
–Nerdist posted some exclusive preview pages from “B.P.R.D.:The Devil You Know” #1 featuring the art of Laurence Campbell. ‘The Devil You Know’ is the final story arc for Mike Mignola’s “B.P.R.D.,” starring Liz Sherman and her team in the remains of the world after the ‘Hell on Earth’ storyline.
-Dynamite Entertainment announced that they have acquired not just the license to Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon but also the author himself. Morgan will be writing all new in-continuity Takeshi Kovacs stories for a new comic book series. Morgaan has written for comics before, perhaps most famously a “Black Widow” miniseries.
-Heavy Metal brings to light a distinctively different “1985” with a new comic from writers Michael Moreci, Seth Sherwood and artist John Bivens. Moreci Says the book is ‘Star Trek by way of Repo Man,’ and set in a world where Cuba actually launched nuclear weapons in the sixties and the space race went far differently than ours did.
-Director Gina Prince-Bythewood talked about the upcoming Black Cat/Silver Sable film saying it’s shaping up to be a buddy picture akin to Thelma & Louise or Midnight Run. She looked at the pasts for both these iconic Marvel characters and saw the motivations between them that link between the cat themed criminal and the silver locked killer for hire.
-The Reardon visual effects company filed a lawsuit against Disney for the use effects technology and techniques that they claim were stolen from them. Though contracting Reardon in previous films the intellectual property used in the production of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy and Beauty and the Beast from other sources. They claim that their MOVA Contour Reality Capture technology was appropriated by persons that were later in contact with Disney.
Continued below-Stan Lee pressed his hand and feet prints into new concrete in front of the TLC Chinese Theater in Hollywood July 18th, joining the legion of other entertainment icons on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Todd McFarlane, Kevin Smith, and Kevin Feige were among those that spoke at the ceremony.
-Telltale Games announced their new season including Batman: The Enemy Within, The Walking Dead Season 4, and Wolf Among Us Season 2.
-Former CEO of Marvel Entertainment LLC Isaac Perlmutter traded in that title in for a brand new one. His is now officially Chairman of Marvel the Disney owned company, a change seemingly in name only as his job remains the same.
