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– Marvel announced a new “Sentry” series, written by Jason Loo (“Afterlift,” “X-Men Unlimited”) with art by Luigi Zagaria (“Midnight Suns”). Following on from Bob Reynolds/the Sentry’s death in ‘King in Black,’ the four-parter sees Misty Knight and Jessica Jones team up to investigate reports of people inheriting Reynolds’s powers and memories, and who are now duking it out among themselves to claim his mantle. It marks the fourth “Sentry” series since the original by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee in 2000. Issue #1 will be released on December 6.
– Additionally, Marvel confirmed Kaare Andrews will return for “Spider-Man: Reign 2” in 2024. The series, first teased on Monday, received a prelude in this week’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #31, which revealed the elderly, widowed Peter Parker will battle a revived, cyborg version of the Kingpin. It will mark the first full revisit of Andrews’s dystopian universe, which has only appeared on a few minor occasions since it was introduced in 2006.
– NBM revealed their Spring 2024 line-up of graphic novels, which includes “Nina Simone in Comics,” by writer Sophie Adriansen and various artists, and “Degas & Cassatt: A Solitary Dance,” a chronicle of artists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt’s friendship during the Impressionist era by writer Salva Rubio and artist Efa. Lastly, there’s “Harlem,” the third in Mikael’s trilogy of New York immigration stories that began with “Giant” and “Bootblack”; it will depict the life of Stephanie St. Clair, a West Indies-born racketeer active during the early 20th century. The books will be respectively released in February, March, and April.
– Pantheon will publish “I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together,” a graphic memoir by Canadian cartoonist Maurice Vellekoop. The book will explore Vellekoop’s upbringing in the 1960s and ’70s as the youngest child of conservative Dutch immigrants, to his time at a gay community in college, which was beset by the AIDS crisis, and other tragedies. The title is derived from the closing theme song of The Carol Burnett Show, a series Vellekoop loved as a child; she is also depicted on the cover. It will be released on February 27, 2024.
– Humanoids announced “Seoul Before Sunrise,” a graphic novel by French cartoonist Samir Dahmani, which will be their first to be published in English. The watercolor book follows a young woman starting university in the South Korean capital, who, while working late shifts, befriends another woman “who spends her nights entering the empty homes of other people to paint and photograph these places.” It will be released in February 2024.
– HBO have ordered to series The Franchise, a comedy revolving around the creation of a superhero film, created by Sam Mendes and Armando Iannucci. The show will star Himesh Patel, Aya Cash, Jessica Hynes, Billy Magnussen, Lolly Adefope, Darren Goldstein, Isaac Powell, Richard E. Grant and Daniel Brühl, and center around “the crew of an unloved franchise movie fight[ing] for their place in a savage and unruly cinematic universe.” It will begin production after the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes are resolved.
– McDonald’s revealed their Loki tie-in, the As Featured In Meal, which will celebrate all of the chain’s film and TV appearances in addition to the upcoming second season. The Loki-branded sweet-and-sour sauce can be scanned to unlock an AR experience on Snapchat, which will offer new content every week beginning August 14. A Brooklyn McDonald’s will also be redressed to resemble its 1982 counterpart during the weekend of August 30, to commemorate Sylvie’s new hiding place.
– Finally, Popverse reports IDW is cutting back on their Originals line after their lay offs and restructuring earlier this year. The news came after writer/artist Will Robson tweeted that an unannounced title he had in the works for the company was canceled; he retains the rights, and is now looking for another publisher. (Alex de Campi also tweeted she had anecdotally heard about similar cases.) IDW’s Originals line was announced in April 2022, and two books from the initial line-up — “Golgotha Motor Mountain” and “The Sin Bin” — remain MIA.
