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It was new comic book day yesterday. What’d you all get? What did you all like? What did you dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you decide on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

CBR – New York Comic Con Will Require All Attendees to Wear Masks – Good.

The Beat – DCEU search for “The One” continues as Dan Lin drops out – But so many reported it was a done deal!?

Reviews

ComicBook – Alien #1
ComicBook – Antioch #1
ICv2 – Big Ethel Energy Vol. 1

Alien #1

Reports state Dan Lin is in talks to oversee DC films and television

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With new leadership at Warner Bros. Discovery, a mission to find someone to be the “Kevin Feige” for DC’s film and television is on. Reports have come out the Dan Lin is the person who is currently in talks for the role.

Dan Lin has been involved with movies like The Departed, Sherlock Holmes, The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie, Aladdin, IT, and more.

The role would oversee film and television and Lin would report directly to the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. Lin has experience with both.

With the move, current head of DC Films Walter Hamada would transition out of the role. Some reports have stated there’s been no negotiations with Lin while others have stated that salary and more is being discussed.

Emma Watts, Amy Pascal, Matt Tolmach, Sean Bailey and Greg Berlanti have all been names that have come up as possible for the position.

Lin oversaw the George Miller Justice League film that was derailed due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike as well as tax credit complications.

Zalslav has stated he wanted to reshaped DC with a 10-year plan that would focus the film and television releases.

Zaslav has come under criticism for ending projects or stopping their releases as he has taken over. Batgirl has been shelved and won’t see release instead its production will be used as a write off. Numerous television projects and movies have not been renewed or canceled leading to an uproar online.

Archie Comics Movie Announced

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archie comicsArchie Comics is proud to announce that Warner Bros. Pictures will be producing a live-action Archie movie based on the Archie Comics characters. This is the first feature film starring the Riverdale gang in the publisher’s 72 year history.

Jason Moore will direct a script by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who is hot off writing Archie Meets Glee, the highly publicized comic book crossover with the popular FOX TV series on which Aguirre-Sacasa serves as writer/producer. Aguirre-Sacasa will also be penning the forthcoming zombie series Afterlife With Archie that was previously announced by Deadline in March.

Roy Lee and Dan Lin will produce, while Jon Goldwater, Krishnan Menon, and Jon Silk will serve as Executive Producers. Details on the story reveal it will be a “high school comedy based on the original line of Archie Comics set in present day Riverdale”.

“We are thrilled to be working with Warner Bros. on this project and have complete faith in their ability to bring Archie to the big screen in a way the fans will love,” said Archie Comics Publisher/Co-CEO Jon Goldwater. “Having Roberto write and Jason direct is Archie’s ‘Dream Team.’ Also, without Dan, Roy, Krish, and Jon, we could not have made this happen.”

“Jason [Moore] and I have been friends for a long time, and this is a complete passion project for everyone involved, ” Aguirre-Sacasa said, “Archie is the ultimate teenager and this movie will be the ultimate teenage movie-in the grand tradition of Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. We are so grateful to Jon [Goldwater] for inviting us to this dance.”