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ICYMI, IDW announced a new Star Trek series, Marvel announced five new series and teased a crossover at their retailer’s panel, DC and Image are doing a “Batman/Spawn” crossover from Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo, and the full slate of Eisner winners, including our friends at Women Write About Comics, were announced.
– DC announced a slew of new Batman titles, including a new “Batman Incorporated” book from Ed Brisson and John Timms, “The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing” by Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine di Giandomenico, “GCPD: The Blue Wall” by John Ridley and Steffano Rafaelle, “Punchline: The Gotham Game” by Tini Howard, Blake Howard, and Gleb Melnikov, and a prequel to the new Gotham Knights video game, “Batman: Gotham Knights – Gilded City” by Evan Narcisse and ABEL.
– IDW has brought the entire team back for “Godzilla: Monsters and Protectors – All Hail the King!,” the sequel to – you guessed it – 2021’s “Godzilla: Monsters and Protectors.” Erik Burnham (script), Dan Schoening (art), and Luis Antonio Delgado (colors) are all on board for the five issue series, which drops its first issue in October.
– In news that seems far too important for either a comic website or their morning news rundown, a document was recently discovered that is being called the first ‘autobiographical graphic novel.’ C. Friedrich, who was held in an Austrian internment camp during the first World War, Voyage and Adventures of a Good Little German in Kangarooland is a five-part tale of Friedrich’s life in the camp. This predates the rise of underground comix, which tend to be considered the start of the graphic autobiography, by 50+ years.
– Two cult-favorite cartoons from the 1990s are returning in comics form. Dynamite Entertainment – which, it is our obligation to remind you, has been tangentially involved with ComicsGate – will publish new ‘seasons’ of Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck as comics, as well as reprinting some of the stories published in the 90s. The first release is set for ‘late 2022.’
– Lucasfilm has cast Amandla Stenberg as the star of The Acolyte, a Disney+ series that is set in the days of the High Republic, making it the furthest back a Star Wars series or film has been set, though many novels and comics have inhabited that era. Stenberg, best known as Rue in the Hunger Games series, will star in the live-action series, which is being produced and run by Russian Doll‘s Leslye Headland. The series is rumored to debut in 2023.
– If you, like the rest of us, think that adding a + or the word “verse” at the end of a phrase is played out, well, say hello to Heavy Metal. At yesterday’s SDCC panel as well as through a press release, the company announced both the ‘Metalverse,’ a new slate of animated and live action shows and “Metal+,” a “Web3 and blockchain-based publishing arm of the company.” In addtion to a sneak peak at Dan Fogler’s Moon Lake animated series, there was a Metalverse sizzle reel shown in the room, and now hosted on YouTube, that promises a slate of [checks notes] 150(!) properties to be adapted which, let’s be real, seems like at least 140 too many to be announced right now. However, footage is shown from at least 5, with the main focus being on Taarna, which gets a nearly full teaser. And don’t worry, it’s horny.
– I Am Groot, a series of five Baby Groot-starring shorts, will debut on Disney+ on August 10.
– We got a bevy of news about The Walking Dead, including the trailer and premiere date for the final part of the final season, a trailer for the new Tales of the Walking Dead anthology series, and the announcement of a new Rick/Micchone series, which will have a six-episode season in 2023. This replaces the previously announced series of Rick Grimes-centered movies.
Continued below– After years in development hell, the film adaptation of Eric Powell’s “The Goon” is headed for Netflix from director Tim Miller (Deadpool).
– Milestone Generations, a documentary about the groundbreaking comics publisher, is heading to HBO Max on July 29th…wait, that’s next week!
– And finally, after the premiere of Green Lantern: Beware My Power, a number of new DC Animated films were teased/announced for 2023, including a Legion of Super-Heroes film, Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, Justice League: Warworld, and a Justice Society movie. This is in addition to the previously announced Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons, due out this fall, and the Rwby vs Justice League film, also due out in 2023.
