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– EW talks to Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and lets him drop some Season 2 Flash Facts on their readers (and the rest of us). Mild spoilers are revealed, so you are officially warned. Although, to be honest, is it a spoiler if you find out a character from the comics introduced at a point early in their publishing history might end up at a point from later in that same history? I don’t think so, but just in case you do, I’m being vague at this point. But you should still check it out, if only to see Kreisberg mention some awesomeness that we all now know he and his Rogues Gallery actually have the track record to pull off to even this fan’s satisfaction.
– Jessica Jones gets a trailer for her new Netflix series. Or rather, more of a visual tone poem than a trailer. But it does what one would want something like this to do: keep the fan interest fires stoked a little more between now and the series debut November 20th. And stoke it does, sure to get fangirls and boys as purple with excitement as the color palette for the last half of the clip.
– We’re almost a week out from the Small Press Expo (aka SPX: the San Diego Comicon of the alternative press scene) so that means it’s about time for them to release their 2015 programming info. They have an onsite ballroom and auditorium going full steam for both of the show days, so there’s a lot of good stuff to choose from. From shop talk to creator spotlights, where else are you going to see a comics guest list range from first-time creators to pros like Scott McCloud, Noelle Stevenson, Raina Telgemeier, Brandon Graham, and Kathryn & Stuart Immonen?
– Mark Millar & Sean Gordon Murphy’s “Chrononauts” miniseries gets a sequel in 2016 (and a film adaptation as well, but seriously, is that news for a Millar comic at this point? I think it’s news if one of his books DOESN’T get one from now on). Between this mini, his book “Tokyo Ghost” with Rick Remender, and a write&draw Image project a la “Punk Rock Jesus” that I swear I remember him talking about when the first “Chrononauts” was announced at Image Expo, Murphy is going to be a very busy boy for a while…
– After being out of touch for so much of the 2000’s, it’s nice to see Christopher Priest contributing to comics again, in either new work or in sharing his informed opinions with the rest of us. Priest certainly does the latter in his new e-book “Klang!: A Writer’s Commentary,” which is exactly what it sounds like. The book presents both unpublished “Quantum & Woody” scripts from the original run, as well as the scripts for the “Q2” mini that Valiant put our last year. Oh, and a healthy amount of insight from Priest himself. He pulls no punches in describing why things didn’t go as planned, but he’s as quick or quicker to point out his own mistakes as he is to shine the light on those of others. That kind of even-handedness (which has been a part of Priest’s essays on his website for years) helps make this book a real look into how the comics industry works, and not just a quick tell-all. Plus, it’s three bucks; you can’t beat that.
– This week’s Kickstarter You Should Check Out is for “The Malediction of Maxwell Fitzsimmons”, an 18-page oneshot by the team that brought you “The Adversary”: David Crispino, Tony Gregori, Jasen Smith, and Rachel Deering. “Malediction” finds the young title character discovering a dark & horrible secret in his backyard that no one else believes.
– And on the lighter side of things, a two-volume retrospective of the work of Italian cartoonist Niso Ramponi (aka Kremos) is debuting at SPX from Lost Art Books. You can check out an evocative trailer for their project and then go pre-order both volumes (one for Ramponi’s B&W work, the other for his color illustrations) from the publisher directly.
