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– We are going to have a lot more about this later today from our site, but Chelsea Cain – writer of Marvel’s recently cancelled “Mockingbird” – recently quit Twitter, due to the amount of harassment she was receiving from comics fans. She released a statement about her departure and, if this doesn’t make you furious about the treatment of creators – specifically non-white, heterosexual, cisgendered male creators – then I don’t know what to say. As I said, we will have more on this later today.
– Star Trek: Discovery lost its showrunner, Bryan Fuller, just weeks before production started. Fuller is remaining on board as an executive producer, and Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts have been named the new showrunners.
– North Carolina Comic Con is bringing the Young Animal crew down to their show next month, and they’re doing something really cool: they are having a Young Animal inspired film festival, with each YA book getting a pair of films that the creators picked, including Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and At the Earth’s Core.
– Tokyo Comic Con lifted its ban on ‘crossplaying,’ where men cosplay as female characters. I was not aware of this policy, but I am very glad that it no longer applies.
– Over 70 current day animators are re-animating the 1960’s Spider-Man cartoons. You can see an example here.
– And, finally, a Marvel comic about the real villain in the world: irritable bowels syndrome.
