IN THIS POST
- 'Radio Apocalypse' hiatus
- Insights from Japan
- Ethan Hawke on 'Batwheels'
- 'Spider-Man' #1 trailer
- 'Spider-Man Blue' Gallery Edition
- Kevin Smith's 'Quick Stops'
- 'Photon' solo series
- Scout's 'Killchella'
- 'Sins of Sinister' teaser
- Marvel Masterworks re-releases
- 'Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War' #5
- Marvel RPG rulebooks
- Matt Kindt's 'Spy Superb'
- 'The Lizard Prince and other South American Tales'
- Image's 'Voyagis'
VAULT & RAM V ANNOUNCE RADIO APOCALYPSE HIATUS, SERIES TO RETURN IN FUTURE
For immediate release.
Missoula, MT (8/24/2022): Vault and Ram V must regretfully announce an indefinite hiatus for the series RADIO APOCALYPSE. The series will return in the future when the creative team is ready to continue. Writer and co-creator Ram V wrote the following statement:
"I’m afraid this broadcast will be a bit of a sorrowful one.
"We launched this book with much excitement and to celebration and acclaim. And for that I have readers, retailers, and everyone who worked on this book to thank. Unfortunately, in the time since, Anand, Aditya and I have been through some rough times. I will allow everyone including myself some privacy but suffice to say health issues, bouts of COVID and some difficult family emergencies on my end have meant that we have been unable to work on this book with the care and attention it deserves.
"It would be unfair of me to place any of the blame on anyone in the team. They all have careers, schedules and other work that will not wait for this story. So, it is with sadness and regret that I’m placing the book on hiatus.
"I have no doubt I will return to it once things settle down a little. Life happens. I love my work and I love the people I work with. I hope to come back to this book and to them in time.
Much love and thanks for all your patience, kindness and understanding.” – Ram
Insights from Japan
Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness by Toshimi A. Kayaki
Homespun wisdom from Japan updated for today's "green lifestyle" choices.
Starting with the notion that some traditions—like drinking green tea for health and mental acuity—embody timeless wisdom for living, Toshimi A. Kayaki offers dozens of wise old Japanese ways for improving how you look and feel while respecting nature and the environment.
Carry your own pair of chopsticks, wear five-toe socks, eat salty plums, use rice water as floor wax, do “eco-laundry,” and always set aside 10 percent for savings . . . you get the idea. By leading a “green tea life,” you’ll help yourself and the planet.
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie
Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.
This provocative book is a tractate, a treatise, on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that follow the brush wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen, and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.
Just Enough: Lessons from Japan for Sustainable Living, Architecture, and Design by Azby Brown
How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today.
If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society by describing life in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo period, when cities and villages faced many of the same environmental challenges we do today and met them beautifully and inventively.
Ethan Hawke is Batman in New Batwheels Clip Revealed Today
Half-Hour Animated Preschool Special “Secret Origin of the Batwheels”
Races onto Cartoonito on HBO Max on Batman Day, Sept. 17
Start your engines! A first look of Ethan Hawke as the voice of Batman in Batwheels, the upcoming animated series debuting as part of the preschool block on Cartoonito on HBO Max and Cartoon Network, was revealed today.
The new clip features a scene from the upcoming half-hour special, “Secret Origin of the Batwheels,” premiering on Batman Day, Sept. 17, exclusively first on Cartoonito on HBO Max. The special will introduce viewers to Bam (the Batmobile), Bibi(the Batgirl Cycle), Redbird (Robin’s Sports Car), Batwing (the Batwing Jet Plane), and Buff (the Bat Truck), and tell the backstory of how this team of young sentient super-powered vehicles came to be.
The series will officially launch later this fall on Cartoonito on Cartoon Network and Cartoonito on HBO Max. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Batwheels marks DC’s first entry into preschool, offering young viewers a high-speed, vibrant CGI-animated iteration of the Caped Crusader. The show will follow a group of young sentient super-powered vehicles as they defend Gotham City alongside Batman, Robin, and Batgirl.
“Secret Origin of the Batwheels” description:
(Special premieres Batman Day, Sept. 17 on Cartoonito on HBO Max)
When Batman, Robin, and Batgirl are captured, the Batcomputer brings the Bat-Vehicles to life. The newly-minted Batwheels must defend the Batcave and face off with the Legion of Zoom – all without Batman’s help!
Batwheels series description
(Series premieres later this fall on Cartoonito on Cartoon Network and Cartoonito on HBO Max)
They are a team of incredible crimefighters who have banded together to oppose evil, combat crime and clean up the streets of Gotham City. They are…okay, they’re NOT Batman and Robin. They’re the Batwheels - an awesome group of sentient super-powered crime-fighting vehicles defending Gotham City alongside Batman, Robin, and Batgirl.
Having just been created by the Batcomputer, our heroes are essentially kids with little to no life experience. Led by Bam (the Batmobile), the Batwheels - Bibi (the Batgirl Cycle), Redbird (Robin’s Sports Car), Batwing (the Batwing Jet Plane), and Buff (the Bat Truck) – must navigate the growing pains of being a newly formed super-team as well as the growing pains that come with just being a kid. This relatable and aspirational series will follow the journey of this dynamic team as they thrill and entertain with their heroic adventures as well as demonstrate to kids the value of self-confidence, friendship, and teamwork.
Cast: The all-star voice cast includes Ethan Hawke (as Bruce Wayne/Batman), Jacob Bertrand (as Bam), Gina Rodriguez (as Catwoman), Xolo Maridueña (as Snowy), Jordan Reed (as Redbird), Madigan Kacmar (as Bibi), Noah Bentley (as Buff), Lilimar (as Batwing), Kimberly D. Brooks (as The Batcomputer), Mick Wingert (as Moe and The Joker) AJ Hudson (as Duke Thomas/Robin), Leah Lewis (as Cassandra Cain/Batgirl), Griffin Burns (as Prank), Alexandra Novelle (as Jetstah), Josey Montana McCoy (as Quizz), Ariyan Kassam (as Ducky), SungWon Cho (as Badcomputer and The Riddler), Tom Kenny (as Crash), Chandni Parekh (as Harley Quinn), Jess Harnell (as The Penguin), Regi Davis (as Mr. Freeze) and James Arnold Taylor (as Toyman).
Crew: Sam Register (Looney Tunes Cartoons) serves as executive producer. Michael G. Stern (Doc McStuffins) serves as co-executive producer, Simon J. Smith (Penguins of Madagascar) is supervising producer, and Steven Fink of Bang Zoom Ltd. is the producer. Based on characters from DC, Batwheels is produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Animation services provided by Superprod Studio.
THE SCARIEST SPIDEY VILLAIN OF ALL TIME UNLEASHES THE END OF THE SPIDER-VERSE IN NEW SPIDER-MAN #1 TRAILER!
Dan Slott and Mark Bagley’s SPIDER-MAN #1 arrives on October 5
New York, NY— August 24, 2022 — This October, two of Spider-Man’s most legendary creators return to bring about the END OF THE SPIDER-VERSE in an all-new ongoing SPIDER-MAN series! Writer Dan Slott and Mark Bagley’s SPIDER-MAN will directly follow the current EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE limited series which explores and introduces Spider-heroes from across the multiverse—and teases a deadly threat that’s coming for them all! See that threat emerge in the all-new SPIDER-MAN #1 trailer, featuring never-before-seen artwork! Witness Morlum and Shathra form a mysterious alliance that could spell Spider-Man’s last stand. But he’s not alone! Spider-Woman, Ghost-Spider, Miles Morales, Silk, and more, join this epic fight in a saga that will serve as the perfect capstone to the character’s 60th anniversary celebration!
“How does it feel to be writing Spider-Man again? Like I'm home. Like there's nowhere else I'd rather be. How does it feel to be working on it with Mark Bagley, one of the greatest Spidey icons of all-time?! Honored, excited, and unstoppable!” Slott said. “Mark and I are two guys who live to tell Spider-Man stories. Cut us and we bleed Spider-Man. And now Marvel has entrusted the two of us to bring back their monthly-- adjectiveless-- SPIDER-MAN title! We are not going to let you down. We're going to take BIG swings in each and every issue! And the first thing we're doing, right out of the gate, is the Spider-Verse comic to END all Spider-Verse comics!”
“Dan and I have been wanting to work together for years, and having the opportunity to be the artist that is there to wrap up his Spider-Verse storyline is really exciting,” Bagley added. “Further, I'm thrilled to see where this book takes us from there.”
Be there for the next evolution of the Spider-Man mythos when SPIDER-MAN #1 swings into shops on October 5!
JEPH LOEB AND TIM SALE'S VISONARY SPIDER-MAN BLUE SERIES GETS COLLECTED AS A SPECIAL GALLERY EDITION HARDCOVER EDITION
JEPH LOEB & TIM SALE: SPIDER-MAN GALLERY EDITION HARDCOVER arrives in July 2023
New York, NY— August 23, 2022 — Next summer, fans can enjoy one of the most poignant Spidey stories ever told in the JEPH LOEB & TIM SALE: SPIDER-MAN GALLERY EDITION HARDCOVER. The iconic SPIDER-MAN: BLUE limited series by Eisner Award-winning team Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale will receive Marvel Comics’ oversized gallery treatment, honoring Sale’s lush artwork in all its glory!
One of the installments in Loeb and Sale’s acclaimed “Color Series,” SPIDER-MAN BLUE told a touching and insightful saga about Spidey’s formative years as a super hero. The modern Marvel masterpiece that’s perfect for new comic readers and a must-have for longtime Spider-Man fans is back and looking better than ever before!
“It’s about remembering someone so important to me I was going to spend the rest of my life with her,” Peter Parker reflects. What Peter didn’t know was that Gwen Stacy would only get to spend the rest of her life with him. This is the story of how they fell in love — or, more appropriately, how they almost didn’t! To get the girl of his dreams, Peter must run the gauntlet of the Green Goblin, the Rhino, two Vultures…and a mysterious man in the shadows controlling it all.
"Tim Sale is no longer with us. But the legacy of his incredible talent will always be celebrated,” Loeb said. “I'm so touched and proud that Marvel has chosen SPIDER-MAN: BLUE as the first of our ‘color’ series in a gorgeous new oversized edition. It is a story about love and grief, something we all are experiencing without Tim. Please join us for this extraordinary collection of some of his finest work."
Check out the cover below and be on the lookout for the reveal of a special Direct Market-exclusive variant cover. Experience this beloved Spider-Man saga in a brand-new way when it arrives summer 2023. For more information, visit Marvel.com.
JEPH LOEB & TIM SALE: SPIDER-MAN GALLERY EDITION HC
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art and Cover by TIM SALE
On Sale July 2023
GET READY FOR MORE MISADVENTURES WITH YOUR FAVORITE ASKEWNIVERSE CHARACTERS IN KEVIN SMITH'S 'QUICK STOPS'
Anecdotes from the Annals of the Askewniverse
MILWAUKIE, Ore., (August 23, 2022)— Following in the footsteps of the Lionsgate theatrical release CLERKS lll, Dark Horse Comics proudly presents Quick Stops, the next series from Kevin Smith's Secret Stash Press! An ongoing anthology of convenience stories set in the world of Smith's View Askewniverse films, Quick Stops is written by Smith himself and features different artists for each issue! And just like that the little film that started it all, the tales are told in beautiful black and white!
In the premiere issue of Quick Stops, Chronic-Con guest of honor Holden McNeil tells Chasing Amy's Alyssa Jones and a packed Chronic-Con crowd his story of going green with legendary loiterers Jay and Silent Bob in the Quick Stop cooler - and how it directly led to the birth of his Bluntman and Chronic comic books! Jermey Simser will pencil and ink the first issue with Andrew Thomas lettering. The cover art is by John Sprengelmeyer, with a variant by Simser.
"Quick Stops is where I finally get to tell tales from across the Askewniverse that I've always wanted to write!" Smith said. "And even though Jason Mewes and I keep getting older in real life, in the pages of Quick Stops, our rotating roster of amazing artists will keep us both looking forever 90's young! This has been the most fun I've had writing in my life because all these chatacters mean so much to me! I can't wait to reach 100 issues one day! But for now, I'll settle for Issue #1!"
Quick Stops #1 (of 4) will be available at comic stores November 2, 2022. It is now available for pre-order at your local comic shop. Quick Stops #1 will retail for $3.99.
PHOTON'S LIMITLESS POWER THREATENS TO BREAK THE MARVEL UNIVERSE IN MONICA RAMBEAU'S FIRST SOLO COMIC SERIES!
Eve L. Ewing and Michael Sta. Maria launch MONICA RAMBEAU: PHOTON, a new limited series coming in December
New York, NY— August 23, 2022 — This December, universal powerhouse Monica Rambeau will star in first-ever solo comic series! A five-issue limited series, MONICA RAMBEAU: PHOTON will be written by award-winning author and scholar Eve L. Ewing and drawn by new Marvel talent, artist Michael Sta. Maria. The iconic Marvel super hero with four decades worth of amazing stories will at long last headline her own saga.
From the New Orleans Harbor Patrol to the Avengers to the Ultimates, Monica Rambeau has been a leader and team player her entire life but now she’ll face a reality-shattering crisis that she’ll have no choice but to take on single-handedly. In order to do so, Photon will need to reach new heights of her incredible abilities—and then surpass them! In a revelatory journey spanning time and space, fan will behold Photon’s true potential. The adventure begins when Photon is charged with making a very special, very cosmic delivery. What should be light work (get it?) for Monica becomes increasingly complex and dangerous due to a threat from beyond and family drama.
“It's such an honor to be taking on the story of a legacy character like Monica Rambeau,” Ewing said. “Monica's character has a long history in the Marvel Universe, but she's way overdue for getting her own story told. I'm picking the pen up from the legend himself, Dwayne McDuffie, who put out the last Monica Rambeau solo adventure almost three decades ago. It's a privilege and I'm excited to tell the story in a way that both highlights her incredible cosmic abilities as well as her everyday, relatable struggles. I hope this will be a title that has something equal to offer to veteran readers and folks who may be brand new to comics.”
Explore the outer reaches and wildest vagaries of the Marvel Universe through the eyes of one of its most powerful heroes when MONICA RAMBEAU: PHOTON #1 arrives in December. For more information, visit Marvel.com.
MONICA RAMBEAU: PHOTON #1 (OF 5)
Written by EVE L. EWING
Art by MICHAEL STA. MARIA
Cover by LUCAS WERNECK
On Sale 12/7
NEWS ALERT: Dancing Past Midnight, Surviving Until Dawn, KILLCHELLA Premieres This October From SCOUT COMICS!
TAGLINE:
Dancing past midnight, surviving until dawn.
STORY SUMMARY:
A group of friends drive from Los Angeles to attend an ultra-trendy music festival in the Coachella Valley desert. They soon face a bloody night of terror when a reclusive pop star making her big return after years in hiding recruits her most fanatical devotees to assist in a massive human sacrifice ritual.
CREATIVE TEAM:
– WRITER - Mario Candelaria (ASHES, Corktown, Epilogue, The Good Fight Anthology)
– ILLUSTRATOR - Serg Acuña (BOOM Studio’s WWE, Undertaker)
– COLOR ARTIST - Katherine Lobo (Go Go Power Rangers, The Love She Offered)
– LETTERER - Matt Krotzer (Lab Raider, Mine Anthology, Strayed)
– STORY EDITOR - James Ferguson (Reviewer at HorrorDNA.com, Senior Editor at Comicon.com)
Quote from writer Mario Canelaria:
"The idea of Killchella was born in the desert, just outside of Los Angeles. There's something primal out in that terrain that washed over me at a time when creatively I was at my lowest point. I thought on the people who come out there for spiritual healing, and the people who left big city life behind to live in the shadow of Mount San Jacinto. There's a lot of positivity to be found out there, but what if all those good vibes flipped the wrong switch in someone? What if someone like an influential celebrity got the message wrong, and then used their following of rabid fans to spread a twisted message of love and warmth onto an unsuspecting crowd?"
ENTER NOW…THE SINS OF SINISTER
A New World. A New Disaster. Mister Sinister’s plans come to fruition beyond his wildest dreams...AND his darkest nightmares. Can the X-Men survive the experience? Can anyone? Discover how twisted mutantkind becomes when Mister Sinister achieves victory in SINS OF SINISTER, a new crossover coming to the X-Men.
THE FOUNDATIONAL STORIES OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE ARE BEAUTIFUALLY RESTORED IN NEW MARVEL REMASTERWORKS!
2023 will see the debut of a stunning new line of MARVEL MASTERWORKS collections, complete with newly restored artwork and bonus material
New York, NY— August 22, 2022 — For over thirty years, Marvel Comics has collected the seminal stories of the Marvel Universe in MARVEL MASTERWORKS—and now, 330 volumes later, Marvel is proud to welcome fans to MARVEL REMASTERWORKS! By popular demand, the Remasterworks will be new printings of early Marvel Masterworks, now with improved restoration and expanded bonus material including scans of original art, essays and covers from other collections of the material, house ads, creator bios, and more! Dedicated to Marvel fans, these are the comics that built the Marvel Comics mythology and represent Marvel’s latest step in preserving its treasured history.
MARVEL REMASTERWORKS will debut next year starting with MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1, which includes scans of the original artwork to Amazing Fantasy #15, and followed by MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 and MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE X-MEN VOL. 1. If you missed purchasing these historic early volumes of the Marvel Masterworks line the first time around, now is your chance to own them! With plans to do only a single printing of each volume, don’t miss your opportunity to have these must-have Marvel Comics collections, now in at their utmost glory! For more information, visit Marvel.com.
On Sale May 2023
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1 HC – REMASTERWORKS
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1 HC– REMASTERWORKS (DM EXCLUSIVE VARIANT COVER)
On Sale June 2023
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 HC – REMASTERWORKS
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 HC – REMASTERWORKS (DM EXCLUSIVE VARIANT COVER)
On Sale July 2023
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE X-MEN VOL. 1 HC – REMASTERWORKS
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE X-MEN VOL. 1 HC – REMASTERWORKS (DM EXCLUSIVE VARIANT COVER)
GEAR UP FOR THE FINAL ISSUE OF FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR WITH A LOOK AT ALL SIX COVERS!
Christos Gage, Donald Mustard, and Sergio Dávila’s epic reaches its cataclysmic conclusion in FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR #5, on sale September 28
New York, NY— August 22, 2022 — Fortnite and Marvel heroes are currently fighting alongside each other to save both their universes from total annihilation in the pages of FORTNITE X ZERO WAR, a new limited comic series written by Christos Gage and Epic Games’ Chief Creative Officer Donald Mustard and drawn by artist Sergio Davíla. On Septmber 28, witness the outcome to this thrilling conflict in FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR #5, the explosive final issue! Right now, fans can check out all six covers for FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR #5 including a brand-new piece by Donald Mustard as well as one showcasing Spider-Man’s brand-new Fortnite Outfit.
The issue will reveal what happens when the most dangerous person in the Marvel Universe throws in with some of the most dangerous people in the Fortnite universe. But what does Doom really want? And how far will he go to get it?
Each first print issue (physical copies only) of FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR contains a redeemable code to unlock a bonus digital cosmetic in Fortnite! Digital single-issue comic book purchases of FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR do not include any redeemable codes for Fortnite in-game bonus rewards. The in-game items Marvel and Fortnite fans can look forward to unlocking with FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR #5 will be an exclusive new FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR Loading Screen! Plus any fan who redeems all five issue’s codes (physical copies only) will receive a new bonus FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR Outfit!
Check out all six covers now and pick up the final issue of FORNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR on September 28. For more information, visit Marvel.com.
Retailers, don’t forget to order your copies of FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR #5 by Monday, August 22!
FORTNITE X MARVEL: ZERO WAR #5 (OF 5)
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & DONALD MUSTARD
Art by SERGIO DÁVILA
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU - 75960620430400511
Variant Cover by RON LIM - 75960620430400521
Variant Cover by MARIA WOLF - 75960620430400531
Variant Cover by DONALD MUSTARD - 75960620430400541
Variant Cover by MARTIN COCCOLO - 75960620430400561
Variant Cover by RYAN BROWN - 75960620430400551
MARVEL LAUNCHING CORE RULEBOOK FOR NEW TABLETOP ROLE-PLAYING GAME IN SUMMER 2023
‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: CORE RULEBOOK’ AVAILABLE JUNE 2023
FOLLOWED BY ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: THE CATACLYSM OF KANG’ AVAILABLE JULY 2023
Use the D616 game system to embody your favorite Super Heroes and Super Villains!
New York, NY— August 22, 2022 – New adventures in the Marvel Multiverse start now! Today, Marvel announced the official role-playing game core rulebook and a new adventure book coming in Summer 2023. Both books are written by award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Matt Forbeck (The Marvel Encyclopedia, Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeonology) and feature covers by artist Iban Coello.
First, RPG players will be able to take on the roles of Marvel’s most famous Super Heroes in ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: CORE RULEBOOK,’ on sale June 2023. Fully updated and expanded from the PLAYTEST RULEBOOK, which is now available, the core rulebook features all the rules that both new and seasoned players alike will need — including quick character creation, bombastic combat, and scores of amazing powers — plus full profiles of dozens of Marvel’s greatest heroes and villains. All that's needed is the book, three standard six-sided dice, and friends!
The rule book will be followed by a brand-new adventure book on sale July 2023, ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: THE CATACLYSM OF KANG.’ This book includes new character profiles and features a series of six interlocked adventures. Fans can play through with a new team or character each time or form a campaign that takes players from street-level heroes to cosmic champions!
“We’re absolutely thrilled with the volume and quality of the feedback the Narrators and players gave us on the Playtest Rulebook, and we truly took it to heart for in the core rulebook,” said the game co-designer Matt Forbeck. “We have a huge playtest update coming out soon that streamlines the game and makes it even easier to understand and play. I can’t wait for fans to try it out ahead of the full release of these books next summer!”
Both books will be available wherever graphic novels and books are sold. Stay tuned for more information on Marvel’s role-playing games on Marvel.com/RPG!
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MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: CORE RULEBOOK HC
ON SALE JUNE 2023
WRITTEN BY MATT FORBECK
COVER BY IBAN COELLO
MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: THE CATACLYSM OF KANG HC
ON SALE JULY 2023
WRITTEN BY MATT FORBECK
COVER BY IBAN COELLO
Bestselling Cartoonist Matt Kindt and Acclaimed Colorist Sharlene Kindt to Publish SPY SUPERB with Flux House and Dark Horse Comics
John Wick meets Wes Anderson in This All-New Msytery-Thriller about a Secret Organization That DEvloped the Perfect Spy
MILWAUKIE, Ore., (August 22, 2022)— Who is the perfect spy? That question may be best answered by bestselling cartoonist Matt Kindt, who has been writing and illustrating espionage and action-fueled comics like BRZRKR (with Keanu Reeves), Apache Delivery Service, BANG! Dept. H, Ether, Fear Case, MIND MGMT, Folklords, Revolver, 3 Story, Super Spy, and Pistolwhip for the last two decades. Next January, Kindt and the acclaimed colorist Sharlene Kindt (Dept H) will release SPY SUPERB their latest collaboration, an offbeat mystery-thriller about a secret organization that has developed the perfect spy. And just who is that perfect spy? Someone who doesn’t even realize they are a spy.
In SPY SUPERB, a secret organization identifies the ultimate asset: a man named Jay, who is what they call a “useful idiot.” Jay is sent on missions without even realizing he’s on a mission. Until he picks up the wrong phone with the wrong secret intel and now Russian hit-squads and elite assassins are after him. But Jay believes he was a sleeper agent—and really is the "spy superb". His complete obliviousness and lack of survival skills may be the only thing that saves him in this globe-trotting espionage tale …where nothing is what it seems…but also…kind of actually is what it seems.
“In Spy Superb I wanted to explore a character, the idea of a very average person who is under the belief that he is utterly exceptional,” said Kindt. “There is a scientific term for this--The Dunning-Kruger effect--a person who insists they possess knowledge and skills that they obviously do not. What if a super spy was suffering from this? Well…they would of course be a…SPY SUPERB. It was actually really hard for me to keep this character alive past issue #1… there are hit men after him…a super assassin who kills only with rock, paper, and scissors… and a real super spy working in the shadows of our “hero” who may actually be the real spy superb. It feels really great to be drawing a new book--and I’m beyond happy that Sharlene Kindt (Dept. H) is painting it. It’s definitely the most ambitious collaboration we’ve ever had.”
The announcement of SPY SUPERB follows the news that three of Kindt’s acclaimed comics are currently in active development under the Dark Horse Entertainment banner:
Based on the comic series by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres, the feature film adaptation of the stylish spy thriller Bang! is set to star Idris Elba (The Harder They Fall, Concrete Cowboy, Luther) and be directed by David Leitch (Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2). The script will be written by Kindt and Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Train, Fear Street Part 2: 1978). The film will be produced by Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse, David Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North, and Idris Elba. In Bang!, when a terrorist cult sets out to start the apocalypse with a series of novels meant to brainwash their readers, the world’s most celebrated spy is sent to track down and kill the author responsible.
Based on Kindt’s acclaimed Mind MGMT series, Curtis Gwinn (Stranger Things) is set to Executive Produce this series adaptation. The film will be produced by Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse, along with Gwinn. In Mind MGMT, a young woman stumbles onto the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the man who was MIND MGMT's greatest success – and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees?
Director Alice Waddington (Paradise Hills) is set to direct Netflix’s adaptation of Dept. H, which is based on the popular comic book series by Matt and Sharlene Kindt. Writer T.S. Nowlin (The Maze Runner) will adapt the script. Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg and Paul Schwake of Dark Horse Entertainment will produce.
“If you close your eyes and imagine John Wick being dropped into a Wes Anderson film, you’ll have a sense of the world of SPY SUPERB, “said Dark Horse Publisher Mike Richardson. “It’s unconventional, unusual and the kind of smart action comic book you expect from Matt Kindt.”
SPY SUPERB is the second release from Flux House, a new boutique imprint that will feature the writing (and sometimes) art of Matt Kindt, with crime, science fiction, and humor stories, all told and presented in startling and untraditional ways, following the release of MIND MGMT: BOOTLEG. SPY SUPERB issue 1 will feature a main cover by Matt Kindt and incentive variant covers by Martin Simmonds, Tula Lotay, and Christian Ward. For more information about Flux House, follow Dark Horse Comics on social media and follow Flux House on Twitter.
Praise for Matt Kindt:
“Kindt breaks all preconceived notions of what comic books are.”—IGN
“Kindt is a storyteller so fully in control of his gifts that his graphic novels read like quietly compelling arguments for the comics medium’s narrative potential.”—NPR
“One of the most exciting and original talents in the business”—The Los Angeles Times
For Immediate Release: Iron Circus Comics Presents The Lizard Prince and Other South American Tales
The Final Anthology from the Acclaimed Cautionary Fables Series Features Nearly 200 Pages of Comics Inspired by South American Fables and Folktales
(August 22, 2022) C. Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics is launching an independent crowdfunding campaign for The Lizard Prince and Other South American Tales, an all-new anthology and the final installment in the acclaimed Cautionary Fables series. The stunning collection is packed with nearly 200 pages of real-world fables and folktales, from comedic to curious to downright chilling, retold in the form of comics by an array of talented artists. Come with us on a journey across South America, where we’ll meet terrifying birds, fire-breathing chefs, cheeky goblins, and so so much more!
Stories include:
- “The Basnemporo Spider” by Brenda Argon, where a spider tries her very best to help.
- “The Myth of the Condor” by Diego Carvajal, a sweeping romantic fable about love in the stars.
- “The Ring” by Francis Francia, in which a new bride gets a little more than she bargained for.
- “The Muki’s Deal” by Rick Lazo, where we learn all about mining goblins and true friendship.
- “The Little Shepherd” by PD Loupee and Bruno Ortiz, where a brave little boy is able to find light even in the darkest places.
- “Yara” by nique, the journey of a young girl determined to control her own destiny.
- “Let Me Cook My Breakfast, Mr Caiman!” by Randal Ranpokoka, a hilarious tale of breakfasts, cooking fires and capybara!
- “Pineapple Wishes” by Luisa F. Rojas, in which a magical Palenquera teaches a young girl that history can come alive.
- “The Bum Who Tricked The Devil” by Rodrigo Vargas, in which—well, you guessed it!
- “The Lizard Prince” by Lore Vicente, an epic tale of magic, love, courage and reptiles!
- “A Girl and Her Bird” by Coni Yovaniniz, when the Tue-Tué bird comes calling.
The anthology is edited and organized by Alberto Rayo, Kel McDonald and Kate Ashwin and topped off with a beautiful watercolor cover by Daniela López. The Lizard Prince and Other South American Tales is the sixth and final volume of the acclaimed Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales series and the second volume of the series to be published by Iron Circus Comics; the series has previously been crowdfunded by Kel McDonald and Kate Ashwin. Iron Circus pioneered the widely-adopted bonus model that's since completely reshaped the pay system of the small press, jump-starting the current renaissance of alt-comics anthologies.
“The Cautionary Fables and Fairytales series has been chronicling folktales from around the world for nearly a decade, hopping from Europe to Africa, over to Asia, Oceania, and finally teaming up with Iron Circus Comics to hit the coasts of America,” said editor Kel McDonald. “Our previous volume of North American tales told by Indigenous artists and writers smashed all records to become the highest funded comics anthology on Kickstarter, and now we’re fully onboard with Iron Circus’ crowdfunding, we can’t wait to see what happens next!”
SUMEYYE KESGIN TO DEBUT SCI-FI ADVENTURE IN UPCOMING VOYAGIS THIS NOVEMBER
PORTLAND, Ore. 08/22/2022 — Elsewhere’s fan-favorite artist Sumeyye Kesgin returns to an all-new sci-fi adventure debut in the upcoming Voyagis. This five-issue miniseries is set to launch from Image Comics this November.
What if one of the VOYAGER probes was found by aliens on an uninhabitable planet laid to waste by a wandering black hole? Their resources dwindling and under the thumb of a relentless tyrant, alien hero Sen’s discovery of the probe leads to adventure—and possible salvation—for her and her people.
"I find outer space infinitely inspiring and I’ve tried to build a fantastic adventure to my curiosity," said Kesgin. "Loneliness, delusions, and hope for a better future are accompanying our heroes in their journey to the unknown. Will life find a way?"
Voyagis #1 (Diamond Code SEP220048) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, November 16.
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