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– IDW will be launching another comic imprint with It’s Alive! in 2017. This new line will focus on restoring “comics material that has been out of print for some time (and, in many cases, forgotten by most)” and will be headed by Drew Ford, a former editor at Dover Publishing. One of their first releases will be Trina Robbins’s comic adaptation of “Dope”, complete with a brand new foreword by C. Spike Trotman and an afterword by Colleen Doran. Because Trina Robbins has clout. It’s Alive! joins Yoe! Books and The Library of American Comics books as a preserver of lost and classic comic works housed at IDW.
– For you “One Piece” fans, in an issue of the promotional paper, “Dai One Piece Shinbun”, series creator Eiichiro Oda has speculated that the series is about 65% complete. Crunchyroll calculates that it will probably take another 13 years to wrap up while some of the more numbers-minded Multiversity staffers have predicated about 150 volumes of “One Piece” overall. Assuming, of course, that nothing goes wrong.
– In 2013, a nine-year-old fan wrote to Alan Moore, calling him “the best author in human history.” (Being nine, it’s doubtful the kid had been exposed to so. many. other. authors. Also, what the hell’s a kid doing reading Alan Moore at nine years old?) Moore replied with an actually quite touching reflection on his own reading history and the authors he liked as a kid. It’s a sweet bit, and a blurb from the boy will appear on the back of Moore’s novel, Jerusalem. My favorite part was when he said he didn’t have a lot of time to reply, then proceeded to write an entire novelette.
– In an effort to get more people into comic shops, Valiant is sponsoring some Pokéstops at select stores in California and New York. (Oh, and there’s one in Jersey.)
– With all the hubbub around Pokémon Go, Legendary Pictures has doubled down its efforts to try to work out a deal with Nintendo to make a live-action Pokémon movie. Not a lot is set in place, but the biggest rumor is that Legendary’s also courting Max Landis to write the script. For some reason. Anyway, I guess they all forgot there’s already a live-action Pokémon movie from Takashi Murakami.
