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In case you missed it, DC announced the “Batman,” “Robin,” and “Deathstroke Inc.” crossover ‘Shadow War.’ We also have an exclusive preview of next week’s “Miles Morales: Spider-Man” #33.
Trapped on Teen Planet'
cover by Jamal Igle
– AHOY Comics announced “The Wrong Earth” is expanding its multiverse with five one-shots, each with its own creative team. The first, “The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet,” will be written by Gail Simone with art by Bill Morrison, and see the grittier version of Dragonflyman (the Dragonfly) find himself in an Archie-esque town. It will be released in March.
Subsequent issues will consist of “Fame & Fortune” by Mark Russell and Michael Montenat; the ’80s-inspired “Purple” by Stuart Moore and Fred Harper; the sidekick-centered “Confidence Men” by Mark Waid and Leonard Kirk; and “Meat,” featuring two takes on the same supervillain of the title, by Tom Peyer and Greg Scott. You can find out more about the specials at IGN.
– Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá teamed up with Skottie Young for a new installment of “Untold Tales Of I Hate Fairyland,” currently available for free on Young’s Substack page. The new strip explores Maddie’s relationship with Gert, the protagonist of the series, as she goes from her biggest fan to a vengeful victim. Additionally, IGN revealed Young will be relaunching the original series with artist Brett Parson (“Tank Girl”) in July 2022. More “Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland” strips will be published in the interim.
– Marvel Comics will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Incredible Hulk with “Hulk: Grand Design,” a two-part comic chronicling the history of Bruce Banner by cartoonist Jim Rugg. The first issue will revisit the first 300 issues of the Hulk’s series (from 1962 to 1984), while the second part will continue to retell its stories until its initial conclusion in 1999. The series follows in the footsteps of “X-Men: Grand Design” and “Fantastic Four: Grand Design,” the former of which was created by Rugg’s Cartoonist Kayfabe co-host Jim Piskor. “Hulk: Grand Design” #1 is set for release in March 2022.
– Marvel also announced “Marauders” will receive a new issue #1 in March, and that writer Steve Orlando will be joined by artist Eleonora Carlini (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith”) on the relaunched series. The first arc will see Captain Pryde finding her final new recruit, “someone no fan will see coming but may be the Marauders’ only chance to unravel a mystery stretching two billion years into the past!” The new “Marauders” #1 goes on sale March 30, 2022, shortly after Orlando’s run begins with “Marauders Annual” #1 (and artist Crees Lee) on January 26.
– At last night’s Game Awards, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy won Best Narrative, and numerous upcoming video games were revealed, including Star Wars: Eclipse, a High Republic game from developer Quantic Dream (Detroit: Become Human); an open world Wonder Woman game from Monolith Productions (Middle-earth: Shadow of War); and Star Trek: Resurgence, an adventure game from Dramatic Labs (a studio founded by former Telltale Games staff.) You can read the full list of the evening’s winners here, check out all the announcements here, and watch the ceremony as well as clips here.
– Via TV Line, Resident Alien season 2 will premiere on the Syfy channel on Wednesday, January 26, at 9pm (8 central time.) The new season has been split into two parts, with the first part airing until March 16, while the rest of the episodes will premiere in the summer. The first episode of the season will also be simulcast on USA Network. Based on the comic by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, Resident Alien stars Alan Tudyk as “Harry Vanderspeigle,” an alien posing as a human doctor in a town in Colorado, who must now deal with the consequences of turning his back on his mission to destroy the human race.
– Per The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has canceled the live-action Cowboy Bebop, less than a month after its first season premiered. The show, starring John Cho, Mustafa Shakir and Daniella Pineda, received mostly negative reviews, and viewership was described as having plummeted 59 percent during its second week of release (the week of Nov 29-Dec 5.) You can read our thoughts on the remake so far here.
Continued below– Deadline reports Thora Birch has left the cast of Wednesday, the upcoming live-action Addams Family series directed by Tim Burton. According to an MGM representative, “Thora has returned to the States to attend to a personal matter and will not be returning to the production.” Deadline states Birch had completed filming most of her role as Tamara Novak, Wednesday Addams’s dorm mother at the Nevermore Academy, and that the role will not be recast. Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega as the title character, will premiere on Netflix sometime in the near future.
– Newsarama reports a new collection of Jack Kirby artwork has gone on auction at ComicLink, all dating from the time he worked at animation company Ruby-Spears Productions in the 1980s. The pieces feature many characters created by Ruby-Spears co-founder Joe Ruby that weren’t developed into TV shows, and range from pencil drawings, to full pieces that were inked and colored by other Ruby-Spears staff.
– Finally, The Beat reported on a backlash against Kickstarter, after the popular crowdfunding platform announced it would “be building a new open source platform, based on public blockchain, to decentralize their operation, and [that] they plan to eventually move the entire system to the new platform.” Reimena Yee, creator of “Alexander, the Servant, & the Water of Life,” has created a form for comics creators who use Kickstarter to submit their concerns to the company. Zoop, a curated comics crowdfunding site founded earlier this year, took the opportunity to invite creators looking for alternatives to contact them, as well as plans to eventually open up and “let anyone use it who wanted to, just like other platforms.”
