It’s time as soon as once more to assessment an important comics-related headlines from the previous few weeks (or no less than, the headlines that occurred to cross my radar).
Information About DC and Marvel
So how are we feeling concerning the trailer for that extremely retro The Unbelievable 4: First Steps, huh? Assume we’ll lastly get a superb FF film? At the least they weren’t too embarrassed to say the title of the group this time.
Captain America: Courageous New World, that includes Anthony Mackie within the title function, is opening in theaters this Friday. It’s shaping as much as be a giant one, regardless of some extremely weak makes an attempt to generate controversy.
This 12 months’s Golden Raspberry Award nominees embrace fairly a number of superhero — or reasonably, supervillain — flicks, most notably Joker: Folie à Deux and Madame Internet. Kraven the Hunter and The Crow have been additionally inflicted with nominations.
Superheroes and comics usually weren’t as properly represented (or represented in any respect) at this 12 months’s Oscar nominations, however a number of Marvel alumni — Sebastian Stan, Zoe Saldaña, and Edward Norton — scored noms for unrelated roles.
Actor Hudson Thames, who voices Peter Parker within the new cartoon collection Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man, made a headdesk-worthy comment about how glad he’s that the collection just isn’t “annoying and woke.” It’s unclear what he meant by this as a result of, as ThePopverse rightly factors out, the collection has already made such “woke” choices as making Norman Osborn Black and including the bisexual Asian hero Nico Minoru to the supporting solid.
In information of curiosity to me personally, there’s a sequel within the works to Fireplace & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, which I wrote about right here. The primary difficulty of Fireplace & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over hits shops in April! Yay!
Information Concerning the Wider Comics World
Celebrated cartoonist Jules Feiffer handed away on January 17 on the age of 95. Along with his work in comics and editorial cartoons, he wrote a number of performs and illustrated the traditional The Phantom Tollbooth.
Higher late than by no means: Darkish Horse has lastly dropped Neil Gaiman after renewed scrutiny of the a number of sexual assault allegations in opposition to him. Different publishers, together with comics publishers DC and Titan, haven’t but stated whether or not or not they’ll proceed to work with him.
Marvel’s former editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada, is launching a brand new comedian e book firm, Wonderful Comics. They’ve already recruited such big-name expertise as J. Michael Straczynski, Esad Ribic, Christopher Priest, and Garth Ennis to work on their opening slate of titles.
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