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Void Rivals #26 improves on the first part of the Quintesson War but still feels off

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THE QUINTESSON WAR RAGES ON! Sharkticon hordes sweep the Sacred Ring as the Zertonians and Agorrian’s finally reach unity–in fighting a common enemy!

Story: Robert Kirkman
Art: Andrei Bressan
Color: Patricio Delpeche
Letterer: Rus Wooton

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Sex Criminals gets a Prime Video Order

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Sex Criminals

Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Tze Chun are adapting Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky‘s Sex Criminals for Prime Video. The show will run for eight episodes and based on the comic series that was published by Image Comics and ran from 2013 to 2020 running 32 issues (30 plus a #69 issue and one-shot). Nanjiani is set for a role in the series.

The series is about a girl who when she has sex, it stops time. She meets Jon, who has the same gift. And together, they decide to rob banks.

Nanjiani and Gordon will executive product the show through their Winter Coat Films. Chun will also exec produce as well as Winter Coat’s Dani Melia, Dani Gorin of LuckyChap, Fraction and Zdarsky. LuckyChap’s Louie Hayes produces.

The series has been praised and won numerous awards including two Eisners. It previously was in development at Universal Televion in he mid-2010s but the project didn’t move forward.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Will Eisner’s Intellectual Property Goes Up for Sale Including Unreleased Work

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The Spirit

Comics partially are what they are today due to Will Eisner. The man is a legend whose name emblazons the prestigious award, the Eisners. The Spirit and A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories are both classics. Now, Eisner’s graphic novels, children’s books, and instruction manuals for creating comics, all of Eisner’s intellectual property, are up for sale.

Included in the sale is a 72-page unpublished Spirit story from 1996 called The Spirit Returns. In it, the Spirit takes on a superpowered vigilante who considers themself the judge, jury, and executioner.

Eisner passed away in 2005 and his wife Ann Weingarten Eisner passed away in 2020. Ann’s nephew and his wave have run the estate, but they are now in their 70s and looking for someone to purchase Eisner’s creations.

The Spirit was adapted in 2008 but didn’t do well at the box office. Directed and written by Frank Miller, the film had a budget of $60 million but earned less than $39.2 million worldwide.

It’s difficult to figure out the value of everything and especially difficult for properties that have lasted decades. The Spirit debuted in 1940 and has had comics featuring the character published as recently as the 2010s. This deal would grant the rights to rerelease the comics published through DC, IDW, and Dynamite.

(via The New York Times)

Atsushi Kaneko and Briana Loewinsohn receive the inaugural ALA Outstanding Comics Awards

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Atsushi Kaneko and Briana Loewinsohn

Fantagraphics has announced that Atsushi Kaneko and Briana Loewinsohn are recipients of  inaugural Outstanding Comics Awards from the American Library Association’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table.

Briana Loewinsohn received the Outstanding Comics Award – Young Adult in the Category of Nonfiction Winner for Raised By Ghosts. Set in the author’s own teenage years, Raised By Ghosts follows a semi-autobiographical Briana through middle school and high school in the 1990’s. It’s a love letter to friends and family and all of the messy complexities they come with that reads like “slightly-grungy Wes Anderson” (Comics Beat). Briana had this to say about the announcement!

Atsushi Kaneko received the Outstanding Comics Award – Adult in the Category of Series Honor Books for Search and Destroy Vol. 1, 2, and 3. Translated by Ben Applegate, the series—”a blast of pure cyberpunk energy” (Publishers Weekly Starred Review)—is a contemporary reimagining of the timeless, Eisner Award–winning Dororo, by “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka.

These aren’t the first awards for these titles either! Search and Destroy already has a fancy American Manga Awards seal on its catalog page, and Raised by Ghosts has been packing the trophy case full since its 2025 release, with a Harvey Award, a spot on both the Missouri Association of School Librarians Denny O’Neil Graphic Novel List AND the New York Public Library’s Best Comics For Adults List.

Paramount Lays Out Plans in its Warner Bros. Discovery Bid, including Cuts

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The fight over Warner Bros. Discovery continues and Paramount Skydance‘s David Ellison has laid out its plans to save $6 billion if it were to win the bidding. The purchase of WBD by Warner Bros. Discovery has kicked off new fears of massive job losses.

Paramount has stated it would look to cut “duplicative operations across all aspects of the business — specifically back office, finance, corporate, legal, technology, infrastructure and real estate.” It would also “shave” about 10% from program spending.

Ellison has stated he would look to release 30 movies a year from the combined Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., leaving them as stand-alone studios. Warner Bros. is planning on releasing 17 films this year and Paramount has stated it wants to double its output to 15 movies.

If the merger were to happen, the combined company would spend about $30 billion a year on programming. Walt Disney Co. has plans to spend about $24 billion this year to compare.

Netflix has currently won the bidding war offering $27.75 per share in cash for just Warner Bros. television, movie studios, HBO, and HBO Max. The cable channels would be spun off into a new company. Paramount has offered $30 a share for everything.

Any deal still needs to be approved by shareholders and pass regulatory hurdles.

(via LA Times)

Batman Blasts the Santa Clara City Council for its Cooperation with ICE

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A man dressed as Batman confronted the Santa Clara City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday during a joint meeting over ICE’s involvement with Super Bowl 60. Levi Stadium in Santa Clara will host the event.

The speaker’s comments as protests against ICE and its violent actions have increased, both the protests and violent actions. ICE has killed multiple individuals in its enforcement including two recently in Minneapolis. There’s also unknown amounts of abuses occurring under watch and directly by them to individuals detained.

He demanded the city bar the use of city resources in cooperation with ICE.

Wrestle Heist #2 delivers fun as the team comes together

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Wrestle Heist #2

We reach the best part of any heist tale – putting the team together! Our heroes reach out to another wrestler wronged by evil promote Buddy Hansen to rob him blind at the biggest show of the year – but of course, nothing comes easy as obstacles arise! Wrestle Heist #2 leans into some cliche along its way, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun with an enthusiasm full of winks and nods readers and wrestling fans will appreciate.

Kyle Starks is delivering a series that’s just a hell of a lot of fun. While the main concept is a simple heist story, it going neck deep into the world of wrestling adds a bit to it all that fans of sports entertainment, even casual fans, will appreciate. Wrestle Heist #2 introduces new members to the team, each bringing their own motives and baggage. But, like so many heists, things aren’t going to be easy and this issue delivers side quests and are goofy, fun, and show off some generational differences in wrestling.

For those more into wrestling, Starks is delivering a story that’ll have you guessing who is based on who and what real history the series is lifting some of its details from. Horrible promoters/owners will quickly remind readers of some real life individuals while the wrestlers themselves each feel like ones we’ve seen.

Starks delivers the art too with color by Vlad Popov. The style works so well with an exaggerated look that feels like it fits perfectly for the exaggerated characters of the wrestling world. There’s something with Starks’ style for the comic that just adds to the humor of it all and it gives the comic a look and feel like it’s something you’d see on Fox’s Animation Domination. It’s great with each character’s look telling so much of their story and just nailing the emotion of it all. You feel the hate.

Wrestle Heist #2 is just a hell of a lot of fun. The comic has a familiar concept but packed with characters that make it all larger than life. It’s a fantastic mix of concept, characters, and setting and even if you’re not a fan of wrestling, this is one you need to check out.

Story: Kyle Starks Art: Kyle Starks Color: Vlad Popov
Story: 8.0 Art: 8.0 Overall: 8.0 Recommendation: Buy

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What happened to Bruce Banner? Infernal Hulk #3 teases the answer

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Infernal Hulk #3

What happened to Bruce Banner in that cave? As the monsters’ war on humanity rages across land and sea, Bruce Banner and Betty Ross have finally found their life of quiet normalcy, free from their past and the threat of the Infernal Hulk…or so they think. Is Banner really free? How long can they hide as the world burns down…and what happens when their nightmares find them? Infernal Hulk #3 gives readers more as to what happened to Bruce Banner and the life he’s now living without the Hulk.

If you’re not reading Infernal Hulk, you’re missing out. The comic has infused horror with superheroes in a way that delivers actual dread and fear. Writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson has tapped into something primordial, that you can feel the fear and imagine feeling it yourself in the situation.

In Infernal Hulk, an ancient being now controls Hulk having cast out Bruce Banner who is living a peaceful life with Betty Ross, both going by different names. Both have had the powerful beings that once inhabited them ripped out leaving each to deal with it in different ways.

Johnson dives deep into the trauma of it all. Both Bruce and Betty have experienced terror to get where they are and each are handling it differently. Bruce wans to move on and find some peace in his life. Betty misses what should could experience, a piece of her torn away making her weaker. Infernal Hulk #3 pulls no punches and delivers emotional depth that’ll hit readers. The issue takes the horror in a far different direction and it hits in a far different way. A different type of fear is present and it leads to the sadness of the situation.

The art by Kev Walker and Nic Klein is excellent. With ink by Cam Smith and Klein, color by Matthew Wilson and Klein, and lettering by Cory Petit, the comic is an interesting transition to that unease that lies underneath suburbia. Bruce and Betty go to their jobs and attempt to live their lives but the art even by itself creates an ominous feel to it all. There’s something to it that makes it clear things are not right and something is off. Then, there’s that page. The comic should have a very clear trigger warning (it might and the digital copy doesn’t or I missed it) that hits like a ton of bricks. The look in Betty’s eyes. The chaos that surrounds her. It’s an emotional punch delivered through the visuals and deliver trauma, horror, desperation, and fear, all in one image.

Infernal Hulk #3 is a strong contender for issue of the year (already). While it doesn’t spill everything that explains how Bruce Banner exists without the Hulk, but it gives enough to satiate readers for a while. It’s a hell of an issue that should not be missed.

Story: Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art: Kev Walker, Nic Klein
Ink: Cam Smith, Nic Klein Color: Matthew Wilson, Nic Klein Letterer: Cory Petit
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy

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Blokees Build: Transformers Galaxy Version 09 Darkest Hour – Arcee

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Enter the Darkest Hour and witness an epic clash as iconic characters like Megatron, Arcee, and Springer come to life.

We open up our seventh box and it’s Arcee!

Get yours!

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Run Home is a nice graphic memoir about finding one’s group and dealing with loss of a loved one

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It’s 2002, and 14-year-old Alyssa is a freshman at a new high school where she knows NO ONE and the uniforms are hideous! What a disaster…

Even worse? Her parents are forcing her to join the cross-country team. No one needs to run, or sweat, this much!

Over time though, Alyssa actually starts to like running. She’s getting better with practice, and some of the girls on the team are really nice. Alyssa begins to find a steady rhythm with high school, cross country, and her new stepfamily.

But Alyssa’s dad is sick, and she doesn’t know what to do. When the worst thing imaginable happens, Alyssa will need to count on her friends, family, and herself to keep running forward.

Story: Alyssa Bermudez
Art: Alyssa Bermudez

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