With new comics coming back to shops this month, but schedules still in flux, I'm trying to keep up with what's available each week -- not just new comics, but TV/movies/online comics-related events as well. I see no reason that I should keep my research to myself. And if y'all know of something not on the list, post it and I'll add it.
MONDAY, MAY 11
Live Q&A with Harley Quinn showrunners (DC Universe Community, 6 p.m. CST)
Harley Quinn executive producers and showrunners Patrick Schumacker and Justin Halpern will be discussing the critically acclaimed animated series, from development and writing the script to filming and working alongside the cast.
TUESDAY, MAY 12
comiXology Original
Youth #1 (comiXology, digital only)
DC Comics
Harley Quinn #72 (DC Comics)
Justice League #44 (DC Comics)
Justice League Odyssey #20 (DC Comics)
Lois Lane #10 (DC Comics)
Metal Men #6 (DC Comics)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
Marvel Comics
Ant-Man #4 (digital only)
Avengers of the Wasteland #4 (digital only)
Ghost-Spider #9 (digital only)
Ravencroft #4 (digital only)
Live Q&A with DC Archivist, Librarian Benjamin LeClear (DC Universe, 4 p.m. CST)
Do you own rare DC comic books and want to know its origin or do you have a crucial question about a DC Super Hero no one has been able to answer? Tune-in and ask DC’s Archivist and Librarian Benjamin LeClear!
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "Freaks and Geeks" (The CW, 7 p.m. CST)
The Flash: "Success Is Assured" (The CW, 8 p.m. CST)
THURSDAY, MAY 14
Live Q&A with Geoff Johns (DC Universe, 7 p.m. CST)
Join DC’s Stargirl show creator/co-showrunner and comic book writer Geoff Johns as he deep dives into the all-new series, the cast, major story arcs and what fans can look forward to.
FRIDAY, MAY 15
Harley Quinn: “There's No Place to Go But Down” (DC Universe)
SUNDAY, MAY 17
Batwoman: "O Mouse" (The CW, 7 p.m. CST)
Supergirl: "Immortal Kombat" (The CW, 8 p.m. CST)
Snowpiercer: "First, the Weather Changed" (TNT, 8 p.m. CST)
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Here's the press release on Monday's Harley Quinn Q&A:
DC UNIVERSE HOSTS HARLEY QUINN SHOWRUNNERS FOR LIVE COMMUNITY Q&A
Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker will answer fan questions starting at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST Tonight
WHAT: Join the masterminds behind DC UNIVERSE’s hit animated series Harley Quinn, Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, tonight for a live Q&A at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST on the DC UNIVERSE Community boards!
Fans can already submit their questions for Justin and Patrick here and return back on Monday evening to check out their responses.
With two seasons now streaming on DC UNIVERSE, Harley Quinn follows the iconic DC character as she breaks things off with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City with help from Poison Ivy and a whole cast of DC heroes and villains. This adult animated action-comedy series is produced by Halpern, Schumacker, Kaley Cuoco, Dean Lorey, and Sam Register, and also features the voices of Cuoco, Lake Bell, and Alan Tudyk.
A free DC UNIVERSE account is all that is needed to participate in this Q&A.
WHO: Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker Executive Producers for Harley Quinn
WHEN: Monday, May 11 at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST
WHERE: DC UNIVERSE Community
Here's the press release on comiXology's Youth:
ComiXology Originals Announces the First Season of YOUTH, a Weekly Comic Book Event by Curt Pires and Alex Diotto
Media Alert: ComiXology Originals Announces the First Season of YOUTH, a Weekly Comic Book Event by Curt Pires and Alex Diotto, Beginning May 12. YOUTH is in development as an original series with Amazon Studios.
Sex. Drugs. Music. Violence.
It’s time to forget everything you think you know about teenage superheroes. Visionary writer Curt Pires and acclaimed artist Alex Diotto are creating an epic superhuman saga unlike any other with the debut season of YOUTH, their all-new 4-issue mini-series releasing weekly beginning Tuesday, May 12.
In YOUTH, Franklin and River struggle to navigate family, friends, high school, work, drugs, and all the pressures of growing up. As a queer couple, they yearn to escape their lives in a small, bigoted Midwest town. They steal River’s stepfather’s Mustang and hit the road. Their destination? California. But along the way, the car breaks down. They meet some kids who are travelling the country, partying, and attempting to find themselves. They party some more. . . . And soon everything changes.
“I wanted to make a teen superhero comic that actually felt authentic to the uncertainty and beautiful confusion that encompasses the coming-of-age experience,” says writer Curt Pires. “There are lots of teen superhero comics, but most of them are written by writers closer to 47 than 17 and feel remarkably out of touch. I wanted to make something that captured the beauty and pain of the youth culture zeitgeist.”
YOUTH reunites Pires and Diotto, the co-creators of the acclaimed comic Olympia, and features colors by Dee Cunniffe, and lettering by Micah Myers. The latest creator-owned release from the comiXology Originals program, YOUTH will be released on a weekly schedule throughout the month of May and will be available upon release at no additional cost, for members of Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited, and for purchase on Kindle and comiXology. YOUTH is also in development as an original series with Amazon Studios, to be adapted by Pires, with executive producer Patrick Moran.
YOUTH is the first of four comiXology Originals series coming from Pires. A second season of YOUTH is already greenlit and in the works and the other two titles will be revealed in the coming months.
“YOUTH is deeply personal storytelling for me, as it pulls from some of the real-life beauty and insanity I went through coming of age in my late teens /early twenties,” said Pires. “There’s chaos, violence, beauty, love, and everything in between.”
YOUTH is their story. YOUTH is what happened to them. YOUTH debuts Tuesday, May 12, 2020.
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive content, YOUTH will be available upon release, at no additional cost, for members of Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited, and for purchase on Kindle and comiXology. Prime Reading offers all Amazon Prime members a rotating selection of over a thousand top Kindle books, magazines, short works, comic books, children’s books, and more – all at no additional cost. Kindle Unlimited offers over 1 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and select current issues of popular magazines for just $9.99 a month with a 60-day free trial at amazon.com/kindleunlimited. ComiXology Unlimited now offers over 25,000 comics, graphic novels and manga for just $5.99 a month with a 60-day free trial at comixology.com/unlimited.
For more updates on comiXology Originals, check out http://comixologyoriginals.com.