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In case you missed it, this weekend marked the second San Diego Comic-Con@Home, which included the winners of the 33rd annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
– During their Comic-Con@Home panel, AHOY Comics announced “My Bad,” a new series written by Mark Russell and Bryce Ingman, with art by Peter Krause. The comic, which began as a text story in “Hashtag: Danger,” will follow the unsuccessful supervillain Emperor King, and a superhero called the Chandelier, who becomes obsessed with finding out if Emperor King has deduced his secret identity after receiving a birthday present from him. The series will debut in November.
Additionally, the panel revealed Russell and artist Steve Pugh are returning for a second volume of “Billionaire Island,” which will star Business Dog, “the richest mammal left on Earth,” who is stranded on the island now that all of the other billionaires are gone. Lastly, AHOY will release a series of “The Wrong Earth” one-shots by various creators in 2022. For more from the panel, head to The Beat.
– BOOM! Studios unveiled “A Spark Within the Forge,” the second Ember in the Ashes prequel graphic novel. Writer Nicole Andelfinger and artist Sonia Liao will return with series creator Sabaa Tahir to tell the story of Laia, and her brother Darin, before the events of the novels. It will be released in February 2022. The publisher also announced “Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas,” a one-shot by writers Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, with art by Jakub Rebelka, for December 2021. The comic, based on a short story of the same name by Herbert, will follow a group of Atreides soldiers who get caved in during the Battle of Arrakeen.
– Netflix announced the cast and showed footage from Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, the CG animated series based on Stan Sakai’s “Usagi Yojimbo.” Never Have I Ever‘s Darren Barnet will star as Yuichi Usagi, a descendant of the rabbit samurai Miyamoto Usagi living in the far future, while Shelby Rabara will play the fox thief Kitsune; Aleks Le will voice rhino bounty hunter Gen; and Mallory Low will portray ninja cat Chizu. It was also revealed Miyamoti Usagi will appear in the show via 2D rendered flashbacks. Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles does not have a release date at the time of writing.
Netflix did, however, reveal that the sixth and final season of Lucifer will be released on Friday, September 10. The show, starring Tom Ellis and loosely based on Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey et al.’s version of the character from Vertigo Comics, originally began on Fox in 2016, and was picked up by Netflix when it was canceled after its third season. The ten-part finale will see the fallen angel struggling with succeeding his father as the next God, as the world begins to unravel after God (Dennis Haysbert)’s retirement.
– We won’t be getting a new Legends of Tomorrow episode until August 8, but the cast and crew did hold a Comic-Con@Home panel last night, sharing a trailer for the rest of season 6, and details for season 7 (which will premiere soon after the sixth on October 13.) You can find out about Constantine actor Matt Ryan’s new role, and Gideon (Amy Louise Pemberton)’s redesign at the panel here, and read the press release for the newly announced song compiliation Legends of Tomorrow: The Mixtape (releasing August 20) here.
– In further TV news, Fear the Walking Dead season 7 AMC will premiere on AMC on Sunday, October 17. The show’s return will come as the original series’ final season (premiering August 22, and August 15 on AMC+) takes a scheduled break, as well as after season two of The Walking Dead: World Beyond bows on October 3. The cast of Doctor Who also announced Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones‘ Grey Worm) has joined the 13th season in the recurring role of Vinder, a gun-toting adventurer with his own spaceship. Doctor Who will return sometime later this year.
Continued below– Marvel and Gallery Books announced a new line of non-fiction books, which will launch next year with Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel on March 29, 2022. Written by Margaret Stohl (“Captain Marvel”) with the Women of Marvel podcast’s Judy Stephens, the book will highlight the women and non-binary individuals who’ve worked for Marvel since 1939. It will include 120 exclusive interviews with actresses like Brie Larson, Scarlett Johansson, and Elizabeth Olsen; directors Chloé Zhao and Cate Shortland; writers Kelly Sue DeConnick, Eve Ewing, Rainbow Rowell, Nic Stone, G. Willow Wilson, and Charlie Jane Anders; artists Jen Bartel, Peach Momoko, and Tamra Bonvillian; and producers Victoria Alonso and Sana Amanat.
– M. Night Shyamalan’s latest horror movie Old (loosely based on Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters’s graphic novel “Sandcastle”) topped the domestic box office with $16.5 million in ticket sales, beating out Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, which came in second place with $13.3 million. While neither would be considered a huge hit, Snake Eyes cost $88 million to produce, while Old only cost $18 million. Meanwhile, Black Widow has grossed $154 million in the US and Canada, bringing its worldwide total to $314.9 million, on top of the $60 million Disney disclosed from the first weekend of its release on Disney+ Premier Access.
– Finally, Collider reported Michael B. Jordan is developing a HBO Max series starring Val-Zod, the Black Superman of “Earth 2” (who should not to confused with President Calvin Ellis/Kalel from Earth 23.) Jordan allegedly pursued the project over J.J. Abrams and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s upcoming movie (which will feature a Black Clark Kent) as he was more interested in the new character than racebending the original. It remains to be seen if either project will come to fruition.
