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– “THIS SERIES WILL BE $1.99. TAKE THAT, DC & MARVEL!” reads the official synopsis for Mark Millar and Juanan Ramírez’s “Night Club.” The vampire superhero comic, which was announced last September, will feature a price tag lower than the vast major of mainstream comics. “”We’re going to take our most commercial and high-profile launch this year and sell it at less than half the price of a current comic,” Millar said of the book and its pricing. “Night Club” #1 is due out this December.
– The 11th volume of “Dog Man,” titled “Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea,” will be released on March 8 of next year. This will be the first new “Dog Man” book in two years, with creator Dav Pilkey having focused on the “Cat Kid Comic Club” series since 2022, the latest installment of which is due out this November. March 7 will see the release of 25th anniversary edition of The Adventures of Captain Underpants, featuring a bonus 32-page comic featuring both Captain Underpants and Dog Man.
– AWA Studios announced “Climate Crisis Chronicles,” a collaboration with NBC News, that will reteam “Covid Chronicles” writer Ethan Sacks, artist Dalibor Talajić, and colorist Lee Loughridge. The weekly comic will, as its name suggests, chronicle the impact of climate change has had on different ordinary people. Episode #1 will be available exclusively on NBC News THINK from today, and the whole anthology will be collected in print on November 30.
– Fans hoping to brush up on their She-Hulk knowledge before her show hits Disney+ later this month can do so on Marvel Unlimited. “Who is… She Hulk?” is written by Rainbow Rowell with art by Ig Guara and Ian Herring on colors. The Infinity Comics one-shot details the origins of the jade giantess. It’s part of the “Who is…” series of one-shots exploring the history of Marvel’s most popular characters.
– Publishers Weekly revealed the cover for Alice Oseman’s Nick and Charlie. While part of the same series that gave us “Heartstopper,” recently adapted into an acclaimed Netflix series, Nick and Charlie will be an illustrated novella, as opposed to a graphic novel. The characters originally appeared in her Oseman’s 2014 novel Solitaire before starring in 2016’s “Heartstopper” webcomic. Nick and Charlie will be available from Scholastic in January 2023.
– HBO Max and Discovery+ are set to replaced by a single app sometime in 2023, according to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. The quote came from an earnings call yesterday. Zaslav went on to defend the company’s decision to pull the upcoming Batgirl feature and Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, saying “We’re not going to launch a movie to make a quarter and we’re not going to put a movie out unless we believe in it.” He did say the company intends a “10-year plan focusing just on DC,” specifically (and controversially) mentioning the upcoming Ezra Miller Flash as a specific point of pride.
– Seth Rogen’s TMNT movie has a title now. The CG-animated feature, directed by Gravity Falls’s Jeff Rowe and scripted by Brendan O’Brian (Neighbors: Sorority Rising), will be known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. The movie is due out August 4, 2023. The announcement was made by Rogan via Twitter.
– New episodes of Nickelodeon Animation’s Big Nate are set to drop August 19 on Paramount+. In addition to the new batch of episodes, which will see sixth grader Nate Wright saving pregnant lizards and trying to become a singer, the first half the animated series’ twenty-part second season has been ordered. Those are expected in 2023. You can watch the trailer here.
– Outlander spin-off Blood of My Blood, focusing on Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser (parents of Jamie Fraser), has been officially confirmed by Starz. Original series showrunner Matthew B. Roberts will handle Blood of My Blood as well. Maril Davis will executive produce alongside Ronald D. Moore. Outlander novels author Diana Gabaldon will serve as consulting producer, and write a prequel book about the lead characters.
– Finally, Emerald City Comic-Con have reversed their controversial mask policy, and will enforce masking at this year’s event. ECCC were following King County’s current COVID-19 guidelines, and it still does not appear if they will enforce vaccination and temperature checks. ECCC will be held later this month in Seattle, on the weekend of August 18-21.
