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In case you missed it, “Heavy Metal” magazine has been canceled for the foreseeable future.
– Fantagraphics has announced a sequel to Emil Ferris’s “My Favorite Thing is Monsters.” Set to hit shelves on April 9, 2024, “My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two” will pick up with original protagonist Karen Reyes, a young girl in 1960s Chicago, who we last saw investigating the murder of her neighbor, Holocaust survivor Anka Silverberg. The sequel looks to expand on the original’s themes of “love, loss, queer identity, and the power of imagination.”
– Two car thieves will accidentally boost Satan’s ride, and find themselves with demonic cops and Satanic biker gangs on their tail in Dark Horse’s “Drive Like Hell.” The four-issue miniseries is written by Rich Douek, with art from Alex Cormack. “If I had an idea that seemed too crazy, too extreme or too outrageous, I had to go ahead and do it,” Douek said of his rule for the series. “The result is a story that I hope is as fun to read as it was to write.” The series begins October 25, 2023.
– Marvel are relaunching Rainbow Rowell’s “She-Hulk” run as “Sensational She-Hulk” in October. In an interview with Marvel.com, Rowell calls the series, which also features art from Andrés Genolet, “an ongoing celebration” of Jennifer Walters, teasing cameos and more Punch Club. Issue #1 is due out on October 18. The current volume of “She-Hulk” will end in the meantime with issue #15 next week.
– Following the success of “Spine-Tingling Spider-Man,” both the Infinity Comic horror series and the print issue #0, writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Juan Ferreyra are reteaming for a four-issue miniseries. “Spider-Tingling Spider-Man” #1 (of 4) will give us a powerless Spider-Man trapped inside a haunted house, while his family has gone missing. The first issue drops on October 18.
– In more Spider-Man news, Otto Octavius will inhabit the body of Peter Parker yet again in “Superior Spider-Man Returns” #1. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the acclaimed series, the one-shot will be written by original series writer Dan Slott, with Ryan Stegman leading a team of artists that includes Mark Bagley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Humberto Ramos. Slott teases that the series will include “everything you liked about ‘Superior’ but in new surprising ways,” before adding, “No time travel. No clones.” The book is due out on October 11.
– Netflix have released the trailer for Mech Cadets, the CG animated series based on the BOOM! Studios series by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa. The show follows a young janitor at an academy for trainee mech pilots, who inadvertently bonds with one of the alien “robos.” It features the voices of Brandon Soo Hoo, Victoria Grace, Aparna Brielle, Ming-Na Wen, Daniel Dae Kim, and Debra Wilson, and will be released on August 10, a day after Pak and Miyazawa’s new “Mech Cadets” comic begins.
– The official San Diego Comic-Con Twitter account announced Comic-Con: The Cruise. The event is set to run from February 5 to 9, 2025, onboard Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas, which sails from Tampa, Florida to Cozumel, Mexico. The ads tease guests, cosplay, and daily entertainment.
– Devolver Digital subsidiary Good Shepherd is teaming with Rebellion to produce games based on the titles and characters of “2000 AD,” as well as Rebellion’s own comic IPs (namely “Roy of the Rovers” and “Battle Action”). The game developers, known for Monster Train and the Transport Fever franchise, said of their work with the iconic British sci-fi anthology magazine, “We are excited to bring fans the hits they are expecting, but even more excited to play with the deep cuts in the library.”
– Warner Bros.’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is wrapping its third round of reshoots. Principal photography finished back in January 2022, just before WB execs Toby Emmerich and Walter Hamada left the film division. In addition to Jason Momoa as the title hero, the film was set to feature Michael Keaton as Batman, much like this summer’s The Flash, and the now-shelved Batgirl. Keaton was replaced by a returning Ben Affleck in subsequent reshoots, though Affleck has now exited the project. The film is set for release on December 20.
– Finally, Rolling Stone reports composer Danny Elfman is being sued over failing to pay for a sexual harassment settlement and nondisclosure agreement from 2018. Elfman, whose credits include Batman, Spider-Man, The Simpsons, and Wednesday, made the arrangement after pianist and composer Nomi Abadi reported several instances of harassment to the police in 2017. His attorneys deny the allegations, claiming he only agreed to the settlement because Abadi would’ve made the story public at the height of the #MeToo movement. The settlement was for $830,000, and the lawsuit claims Elfman failed to pay two $42,500 installments in July 2019 and 2021.
