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– Two weeks after the first look at Robin in Titans, the production team have revealed Hawk and Dove’s costumes for the show. The pair, played by Alan Ritchson and Minka Kelly, look very faithful to their comic book counterparts. The series will be released on the DC streaming service sometime next year.
– Marv Wolfman will be returning to fill-in for “Teen Titans” writer Benjamin Percy on January’s #16. The new issue, drawn by Tom Derenick (“Injustice: Gods Among Us”), will see a villain mind-control the citizens of San Francisco into targeting Starfire. It is unknown when the original version of #16, which is part of ‘The Following’ story arc, will be published.
– Writer Brad Meltzer (“Identity Crisis”) is expanding his childrens’ book I Am Gandhi into an anthology comic book “I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero,” which will be published by Dial Books in May. The book has 25 artistic contributors, including but not limited to Amanda Conner, Phil Jimenez, and Saumin Patel. The book’s proceeds will go to the leadership development organization Seeds of Peace, and many of the artists have also donated their fees to the group.
– Marvel announced more of the titles that will be running the ‘Where is Wolverine?‘ back-up storyline leading into March’s “Infinity Countdown,” and unveiled a seal bearing Logan’s face for the covers of those books.
– Oscar Isaac is in talks to voice Gomez Addams in MGM’s animated reboot of The Addams Family. The film, starring Charles Addams’s New Yorker cartoon characters, is being directed by Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party), and is now scheduled for an October 11, 2019, release date.
– Titan Comics’s translation imprint Statix will be publishing French author Yacine Elghorri’s “Factory” in March, and Joe Haldeman & Marvano’s “Forever War” sequel “Forever Free” from April. IDW’s EuroComics imprint will also publish Jean-Pierre Gibrat’s “The Reprieve” in April.
– Marvel and Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine have teamed for a second Marvel Manga Awards competition. The contest, open until May 10, is open to any artist who wants to draw a story with a Marvel character, and the prizes include 3 million Yen and the serialization of their work in the magazine. The winner will be announced on the Magamega website around August 18.
– In the wake of losing their attempt to trademark “comic con,” the Salt Lake Comic Con have rebranded as FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention.
– The planned Disney/Fox merger is proving controversial, with Democrats on the Senate and House of Representatives’s antitrust subcommittees calling for the deal to be investigated. No hearing has been scheduled yet for the acquisition, which has been condemned by the Writers Guild of America West and could see the loss of thousands of jobs at both companies.
– Last week we declared DC the best publisher of the year, and asked if you agreed. At the time of writing, 61% of you concurred, though 20% of you felt our previous champion Image should’ve retained the title.
