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– NBM Graphic Novels announced four titles set for release between May and August in 2022:
– Noelle Stevenson announced that they have signed up to publish comics about “transition, mental health, career, and life in general” on Substack, with a large amount of the comics being free to read, and more “personal or intimate comics” for subscribers as a result of the greater sense of privacy given by the paywall. In the announcement for the Substack deal, Stevenson — who is non-binary and transmasculine — detailed that they are largely using he/him pronouns nowadays, and is using the name “N.D. Stevenson” on the site. He will be updating their Substack twice a week, though the specifics of the schedule weren’t revealed, and will donate the money raised by subscribers to transgender support charity, Genderbands.
– Marvel Comics announced that “Champions” will be ending with issue #10, which was released today, October 6. Newsarama reported that issue #10 was the planned endpoint for creative team of Danny Lore and Luciano Vecchio. The issue contains the creative team’s reflections after the series’ conclusion, with Lore stating, “Every meme, tweet, and photo that you all used to show your Champions love is the reason that this book will hold a place in my heart forever… Your enthusiasm was the flame that lit the very enthusiasm that Luciano and I brought to the page.” Vecchio described that he wrote his ruminations on the series after drawing his final page, and said “though it’s always a bit sad to finish a project, the feeling of joy and satisfaction of an awesome and fun collaboration surpasses it by far.”
– Shing Yin Khor’s “The Legend of Auntie Poe” was revealed to be one of the five finalists in the Young People’s Literature category for the National Book Awards 2021. The graphic novel is set in 1885, and sees a 13-year old called Mei reimagine the myths of Paul Bunyan with an elderly Chinese heroine named Po Pan Yin at the center. Mei tells the stories of Auntie Poe to help her to navigate her life working in a logging camp in Sierra Nevada, and contend with her growing love for her friend Bee. The winners of the National Book Awards 2021 will be announced as part of an online ceremony on November 17. You can read the full list of finalists for each of the five categories here.
– Deadline reported on the addition of three new cast members for the upcoming third season of The Boys: Frances Turner will portray Monique, the wife of Mother’s Milk, with Kristin Booth and Jack Doolan set to play the TNT Twins, Tessa and Tommy, respectively. They are set to join fellow newcomer Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, alongside the returning Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell, and Erin Moriarty as Annie January. The Amazon Prime Video series adapts the comic of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. A untitled spin-off series focusing on a college for ‘supes’ was ordered by Amazon Prime Video last week. An air date for the third season of The Boys has yet to be announced.
– Deadline also revealed that Dan Fogler’s Heavy Metal-published series, “Moon Lake,” is set to be adapted into an animated TV series. Collaborating on the adaptation will be Heavy Metal Studios, Daniel Powell of Irony Point, and Bardel Entertainment (Rick and Morty). The series will be an anthology of different stories that utilize “campy classic monster, horror, and sci-fi tropes in a hilarious way,” all anchored by its narrator, The Man on the Moon, who is weaving the stories to entertain aliens and halt their plans to attack the Earth. Fogler will serve as an executive producer of the show alongside Powell, Heavy Metal Studios’s Tommy Coriale and Matthew Medney, and Tina Chow and Richard Grieve of Bardel Entertainment. Moon Lake does not currently have a release date.
– Finally, at a virtual launch event for HBO Max in Europe, WarnerMedia released the first clip from the upcoming Peacemaker series. In the clip John Cena’s The Suicide Squad character, Peacemaker, arrives at a restaurant for a meeting in “full cosplay mode.” Peacemaker’s meeting is with the returning Jennifer Holland and Steve Agee, reprising their roles as Emilia Harcourt and John Economos, respectively, and newcomers Chukwudi Iwuji, playing Clemson Murn, Amanda Waller’s No. 1, and Danielle Brooks in the role of Leota Adebayo, a new recruit at ARGUS. At the event WarnerMedia also shed light on the details for its European launch on October 26, including subscription prices, and announced that the streaming service will launch in seven more European countries, including Turkey and the Netherlands, in 2022. Peacemaker is set to debut on HBO Max in January 2022. You can check out the Peacemaker clip here, and see full details regarding HBO Max’s European launch here.
