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– DSTLRY have launched a beta desktop reader (codenamed White Dog beta v0.1.) “The Devil’s Cut,” the publisher’s initial 88-page anthology, featuring preludes for all their current and upcoming planned titles, is available to buy now on the app for $6.66 until December 12. Jock’s “Gone” #1, and Tula Lotay & Becky Cloonan’s “Somna” #1, will be respectively follow on December 13-19, and December 20-26. The comics won’t be digitally purchasable again until the company’s marketplace launches in early 2024, and that’s only if owners decide to sell their copies, all of which is part of the publisher’s policy of ensuring creators maintain a cut of each sale.
– Image announced artist Peter Snejbjerg has joined the Ghost Machine imprint. He will reunite with “The Light Brigade” writer Peter J. Tomasi on “Hornsby & Halo,” which follows young demon Rose Hornsby and angel Zach Halo as they become “the center of a cosmic family swap to keep the peace between Heaven and Hell.” It will be part of the imprint’s Family Odysseys universe, which will debut with “The Rocketfellers” in January’s “Ghost Machine” special. Neither of the series in that universe have a confirmed start date at the time of writing.
– BOOM! Studios revealed Franco-Belgian comics veteran Guillaume Martinez will tackle the art for “The Amory Wars: No World for Tomorrow,” the upcoming final part of Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert’s epic sci-fi fantasy series, launching May 2024. The 12-issue series adapts the concept album of the same name by Sanchez’s band Coheed and Cambria, and is currently in the final day of a preorder campaign on BackerKit. Previous installments were drawn by Gus Vasquez, Mike S. Miller, Gabriel Guzman, Chris Burnham, Aaron Kuder, and Rags Morales, among others.
– “Dr. Stone” artist Boichi has sold the film rights for another of his manga, “Origin,” to Majestic Limited, a new Hollywood production company founded by Josh Boone (The New Mutants), Danny Chan (Barbarian), and Darius Shahmir (Midnight Special). Published by Kodansha in Japan from 2016 to 2019, “Origin” is set in a 2048 version of Tokyo, where humanity is plagued by robotic murderers. Only one man can stop them: Origin, their prototype. Kodansha released the first volume in English last month, and will co-produce the movie version.
– The nominations for the 51st annual Saturn Awards were announced, with Blue Beetle, The Flash, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Quantumania, and Wakanda Forever all getting nominated for Best Superhero Film, while Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem were relegated to Best Animated Film. Similarly, Chainsaw Man, Harley Quinn and My Adventures with Superman were nominated for Best Animated TV Series or Special, while the Best Superhero TV Series nominees consisted of Doom Patrol, The Flash, Sandman, Secret Invasion, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Stargirl, and Superman & Lois. For the full list of who could win on February 4, 2024, head to the link.
– During the first day of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards’ juried prizes, Ms. Marvel won Outstanding Motion Design, Entergalactic won Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation – Character Design, and the Star Wars: Visions short “Screecher’s Reach” won in the same category, but for Production Design. The motion design award for Ms. Marvel will be presented on January 6, while the other winners will be honored the following night. An edited version of the ceremonies will air on FXX the night of Saturday, January 13.
– Lastly, in a final bit of screen awards news, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was named the Best Animated Film of 2023 by the National Board of Review. It was not named one of the Top Films of the year, although The Boy and the Heron, the sole animated film on the list, was, but neither was Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which picked up Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Lily Gladstone, and Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Rodrigo Prieto (who also lensed Barbie.) Guardians of the Galaxy star Bradley Cooper received an NBR Icon Award, while his latest directorial outing, Maestro, was named one of the Top Films.
