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In case you missed it, we have an exclusive preview of ”Alien Annual” #1. We also spoke to Tillie Walden about “Clementine: Book Two,” and Ethan Kimberling & Patrick Satterfield about the Hellboy Universe’s title designs.
– Friends of artists Tess Fowler and Chris Gutierrez have organized a GoFundMe campaign for them as they face eviction from their Los Angeles area home. According to the GFM page, Fowler and Gutierrez did not qualify for COVID assistance, and their landlord is demanding $25,000 in back rent after initially offering to work with them. “So they are madly trying to find someplace to live in a very tight apartment market in LA and can’t do the first/last/security/plus without our help,” the page goes on to say. As of this writing, the GFM has raised $7,695 of the needed $25,000.
– Marvel has revealed the covers for their upcoming all-ages releases from Abrams Books. Written and drawn (respectively) by Hello!Lucky team Sabrina and Eunice Moyle, Captain Marvel Soars Above: A Marvel Hello Heroes Book will see Carol “fighting to save Earth while battling boredom, prank calls, and the need to make everything perfect.” We also got a sneak peak at “Spider-Man: Cosmic Chaos!,” the third title in Abrams’s Mighty Marvel Team-Up series. The graphic novel, from writer/artist Mike Maihack, sees Peter team up with the Guardians of the Galaxy after his attempts to return the Silver Surfer’s board go awry. Captain Marvel Soars Above is due out in stores March 26, 2024 and can be preordered now. “Spider-Man: Cosmic Chaos!” is set to hit shelves July 9, 2024 and is also available for preorder.
– The upcoming Hellboy video game Hellboy: Web of Wyrd has a new release date. “To make sure that everyone can play the game on everything everywhere all at once (ha!), we are pushing release by two weeks,” the game’s developers state. “This thing’ll be ready to play on October 18th. I know, we know, and we are sorry. But also, thank you.” The game is being developed by Upstream Games and set to be distributed by Good Shepherd, in partnership with Dark Horse. It will be available on PC and consoles. Its new release date also means it will launch a mere two days before Spider-Man 2 on PlayStation 5.
– Dave Gibbons’s Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography will be released as an audiobook later this year. B7 Media will release the “Watchmen” co-creator’s audio memoirs exclusively on Audioteria this December, with a wide release sometime in Spring 2023. Fans can listen to a free sample here. The print edition was originally published by Dark Horse in 2022.
– In manga-related news, Netflix confirmed Alice in Borderland will return for a third season. The second season of the Japanese sci-fi thriller, based on the comic by Haro Aso, released in December 2022. Meanwhile, Production I.G announced a new anime based on the wrestling manga “Kinnikuman” (aka “Ultimate Muscle.”) Based on the 2011 revival of the comic from the original creative team Yudetamago, the new show will mark the 40th anniversary of the original anime sometime next year.
– A new book from entertainment journalist Edward Gross has chronicled the entire history of the Man of Steel. Voices From Krypton, available now from Nacelle Books, details the 85-year history of Superman, from his earliest beginnings in the mid-1930s, to James Gunn’s upcoming feature film Superman: Legacy. The book features from quotes from actors Christopher Reeve, George Reeves, Brandon Routh, Henry Cavill and Tom Welling; filmmakers Richard Donner, Zack Snyder, Ilya Salkind, Kevin Smith and J.J. Abrams; TV showrunners Miles Millar, Al Gough and Marc Guggenheim; comic creators Alex Ross, Dan Jurgens, Len Wein, Louise Simonson, Jerry Ordway, Joe Kelly, Jim Lee, Paul Levitz, Mark Waid, and Neal Adams; and voice actors Tim Daly, George Newbern, Jerry O’Connell, Mark Harmon, Darren Criss and Bud Collyer. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster themselves are also cited in the book.
– Finally, Sir Patrick Stewart, in an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Making It So about his experiences filming and developing Star Trek: Picard (published in Time magazine), discussed how the third and final season was supposed to end. In the article, the esteemed actor says a scene originally pitched by the writers of the show, based on his suggestion, implied the Next Generation lead had found true love. “It is dusk at Jean-Luc’s vineyard,” Stewart recalls. “His back is to us as he takes in the view, his dog at his side. Then, off-screen, a woman’s loving voice is heard: ‘Jean-Luc? Supper’s ready!’ Is it Beverly Crusher’s voice? Laris’s? Someone we don’t know? It isn’t made clear. But [Stewart’s real-life wife] Sunny [Ozell] was set to record the lines.”
According to Stewart, the scene was never shot due to a combination of fatigue with the show’s long shooting days, and studio involvement. Stewart went on to say he is “gently pushing” Paramount to produce a Picard movie, and states that Riker actor Jonathan Frakes would be his first choice to direct it. Making It So will be available on Tuesday, October 3.
