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Fresh Off the Boat Free Comic Book Day Cover Revealed by BOOM! Studios

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BOOM! Studios, ABC Television Network & Twentieth Century Fox Television, have revealed the cover to Fresh Off the Boat Presents: Legion of Dope-itude Featuring Lazy Boy, available at participating stores on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 6th. Award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang and artist Jorge Corona bring the stars of the pioneering hit television series to life in comic book form for the very first time… with a super-powered twist!

Expanding on the events of an upcoming May episode of Fresh Off the Boat (which airs Tuesdays, 9/8c on ABC), the comic book follows Eddie and Emery as they find that the superheroes they created for a create-your-own-comic-book contest based on the Huang family, have come to life in the real world. But could these superheroes prove to be even more popular than the Huangs themselves? And how far will Eddie go to prove he’s still cooler than Lazy Boy, his superhero doppleganger?

Fresh Off the Boat Presents: Legion of Dope-itude Featuring Lazy Boy joins BOOM! Studios Summer Blast FCBD 2017 Edition as the two, all-ages-friendly offerings for Free Comic Book Day from BOOM! Studios designed to bring in a new generation of readers into comic shops.

Free Comic Book Day is a single day—always the first Saturday in May—when participating comic book specialty shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their shops.

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BOOM! Studios Gets a First-Look Deal With 20th Century Fox TV

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comics-boom-studios-logoWill BOOM! be the next publisher to get a push on television? BOOM! Studios has signed a first-look deal at 20th Century Fox TV for broadcast and cable projects. That mean’s the studio’s writers and producers will have access to BOOM!’s original series and their imprints such as KaBOOM!, Archaia and BOOM! Box.

BOOM! Founder and CEO Ross Richie and President of Development Stephen Christy will serve as executive producers on any projects developed with 20th TV, and the company plans to hire a development executive focused solely on television.

The comic publisher has already developed Unthinkable with the studio and the series has a put pilot commitment. Unthinkable is by Mark Sable and Julian Totino Tedesco.

This year the publisher is set to produce 29 new original series, which adds to its library of over 120 IP. Next year, that increases to 35 original series, which gives them the largest library of “owned and controlled original comic book series” outside of Marvel and DC. There’s currently over a dozen series either premiering this fall or being worked on for television, so anything from BOOM! will enter a crowded market.

This is on top of the existing deal BOOM! has with 20th Century Fox to make movies.

(via Deadline)