TUEDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: "WHY I HATE GYM"
Marvel has released a clip from "Why I Hate Gym," the episode of Ultimate Spider-Man premiering Sunday on Disney XD.
Here's how the episode is described:
The evil Taskmaster works undercovers as the school's gym teacher to find Spider-Man.
To watch the clip, CLICK HERE.
IDW PUBLISHING FIRST LOOKS
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For cover and eight-page previews of IDW Publishing arriving in stores on Wednesday, April 25, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Danger Girl: Revolver #4, Frank Frazetta's Funny Stuff, G.I. Joe: Retaliation #4, Popeye #1, Road Rage #3, Snake Eyes #12, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #9 and Transformers: Robots in Disguise #4.
DC COMICS FIRST LOOKS
For covers and five-page previews of DC Comics titles arriving in stores on Wednesday, April 25, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Superman #8 and The New Deadwardians #2.
GUARDING THE GLOBE ONGOING
Image Comics has announced that Guarding the Globe, the mini-series spinning out of Robert Kirkman's Invincible, will return as in September as an ongoing series from Skybound/Image Comics.
Phll Hester will write the series, with art by Todd Nauck. Readers will be given a taste of what's to come from the new creative team from Image's offering on Free Comic Book Day, May 5.
"The Invincible Universe has outgrown its parent title and I'm very excited about being able to tell larger, more in depth stories with some of the key players from that book in this series," Kirkman said. "Phil Hester and Todd Nauck are well known to fans of superhero comics and I think people are fully aware that they're going to knock this book out of the park."
Here's how Image describes the book:
"Familiar yet fresh, Guarding the Globe will appeal to fans of the back-to-basics approach to superhero comics that Invincible is known for. Heroes both familiar and new struggle to protect Earth in Invincible's absence. As the Viltrumite War rages on within the pages of Invincible, the ranks of the Guardians of the Globe are suddenly depleted. The world is in danger, and the team is in search of new blood."
"When Robert first approached me about this ongoing series, I knew I wanted to be a part of Guarding the Globe," said Nauck, whose creator-owned series Wildguard was published by Image. "I really respect what Robert's accomplished so far with the series and I'm having a blast drawing this book. I feel it's my best work to date."
"When Robert floated the idea it didn't take me very long to say yes," Hester said. "The characters in Guarding the Globe have the same kind of freshness Invincible does. It's a great chance to both pay homage to super heroes and upend them a bit in way that isn't cynical, but humanizing."
BRIEFLY
* Marvel Comics has unveiled John Cassaday's variant cover for Astonishing X-Men #50. The wedding story, by Majorie Liu and Mike Perkins, "sets up a major turning point for two characters," according to Marvel.
* According to Deadline, Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have been tapped by Sony Pictures to write a sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man.
* According to Deadline, Jessica Chastain is in talks to play a scientiest in Iron Man 3.
JUNE SOLICITATIONS ROUNDUP
For previously posted June solicitations, click on the publishers' names below:
* Ape Entertainment.
* Archie Comics.
* Aspen Comics.
* Bluewater Productions.
* Bongo Comics.
* Dark Horse Comics.
* DC Comics.
* Dynamite Entertainment.
* IDW Publishing.
* Image Comics.
* Marvel Comics.
* Moonstone Books.
* Oni Press.
* Red 5 Comics.