FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2017
MARVEL COMICS FIRST LOOKS
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For covers and three- to five-page previews of Marvel Comics titles arriving in stores on Wednesday, July 12, click on the thumbnails above or the links below for the individual titles.
* AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #30.
* BLACK PANTHER AND THE CREW #4.
* DARTH VADER #3.
* DEADPOOL #33.
* THE DEFENDERS #3.
* DOCTOR APHRA #9.
* DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE SORCERERS SUPREME #10.
* EDGE OF VENOMVERSE #2.
* GENERATION X #4.
* JEAN GREY #4.
* OLD MAN LOGAN #26.
* ROCKET #3.
* SECRET WARRIORS #4.
* SPIDER-MEN II #1.
* THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #22.
* UNCANNY AVENGERS #25.
* VENOM #152.
* WEAPON X #5.
MARVEL LEGACY PRIMER PAGES
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Marvel Comics has announced Marvel Primer Pages, three new pages of comic content written by Robbie Thompson with a majority of art from Mark Bagley. As part of Marvel Legacy, the stories will draw readers into the Marvel Universe like never before - at no extra cost.
Featured in select Marvel Legacy issues, each story provides easy access into the world of each title character, as well as easy access into the Legacy stories.
"When I first approached Robbie and Mark to do these Primer stories, I gave them only one edict: to remind all readers both who these characters are and what they’re about in three all new pages," said Marvel editor Darren Shan. "What we got back has been some of the most fun art I've ever seen from Mark! And we couldn't be luckier to have someone like Robbie to cherry pick the most classic moments in Marvel history. Then the two of them tie this all up into one perfect package."
It's been an absolute blast working on this project -- it gives me a great excuse to re-read so many of my favorite comics," Thompson said. "I've been a fan of Mark's for years, so to get to work with him is a dream come true. Mark takes the scripts and distills them down to their essence, finding brilliant ways to tell these stories with truly iconic images. I can't wait for people to see what he's done with these!"
"This Legacy gig has been a lot of fun to work on and a bit of an education...even for someone who has been drawing comics for as long as I have! I think readers will really enjoy the stories we’re revisiting," Bagley said.
BOOM! STUDIOS FIRST LOOKS
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For covers and six- to 11-page previews of BOOM! Studios titles arriving in stores on Wednesday, July 12, click on the cover thumbnails above or the links below for the individual titles.
* ADVENTURE TIME VOL. 10: THE OOORIENT EXPRESS.
* GODSHAPER #4.
* GRASS KINGS #5.
* MISFIT CITY #3.
* PLANET OF THE APES/GREEN LANTERN #6.
BOOM! STUDIOS' EUGENIC
BOOM! Studios has announced an October launch for Eugenic, a dark vision of humanity's future from the team of writer James Tynion IV and artist Eryk Donovan. The limited series is the third installment in the duo's Apocalyptic Trilogy, following 2014's Memetic and 2015's Cognetic. Like those series, Eugenic will feature three, oversized, 48-page issues.
Here's how the series is described:
"When a plague ravages the world, one scientist discovers the cure and becomes the savior of mankind. Hope is restored, and the world rebuilds. But then people who took the anti-virus begin having children who are... unnatural, and the definition of 'normal' is forever altered."
"In December 2012, when my comics career was in its infancy, I challenged myself to imagine a kind of horror story that I had never seen before," Tynion said. "And all in one night, three bizarre concepts came to mind, and I raced to my computer to start jotting them down in a series of documents that would ultimately become the basis for Eryk Donovan and my Apocalyptic Trilogy.
"The first two ideas were the most direct, and I knew how to bring them to life. Memetic and Cognetic explored the horrors of being made small -- understanding that no matter how unique you believe yourself, we are all fundamentally the same, and when the apocalypse came -- whether by an inexplicable Sloth image on the internet that drove you insane, or an alien hive mind looking to extend itself across every brain on the planet -- we would all die at the same. They explored the horror of realizing a kind of inescapable homogeneity.
"Eugenic was always the most difficult concept. The most raw. The most dangerous. Rather than an apocalypse unleashed upon the world from external forces, it is an apocalypse that we unleash upon ourselves. Rather than taking place over a handful of days, each of the three issues are hundreds of years apart. This is an apocalypse of good intentions and the horrors of sameness being allowed to take hold. In literal terms, it is the story of a monstrous new breed of humanity created by a misguided scientist looking to save the world and erase prejudice. Ultimately, these characters learn that hate cannot be genetically engineered out of a species. In the end, we are our own apocalypse."
Donovan added, "For our final apocalypse, we wanted to do something a little different. Eugenic is a much more physical tale than Memetic and Cognetic, and with that will come all sorts of lovely body horror, disturbing visages, and creepy weirdness. It's crazy and dangerous, and we're going to blow your socks off. Welcome to the world of Eugenic!"
Eugenic #1 features a main cover by Donovan and a subscription cover by Robbi Rodriguez.
BRIEFLY
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DAN DARE AT TITAN: Titan Comics has announced an Oct. 11 launch for Dan Dare: Pilot to the Future, from writer Peter Milligan and artist Alberto Fouche.
Here's how Titan describes the series:
"When an unknown alien vessel of biblical proportions arrives in the solar system and obliterates a moon of Saturn in a show of strength, Dare finds himself thrust back into a new adventure that threatens not just Earth -- but all life in the entire universe!"
Covers for the first issue are by Fouche and Christian Ward.
SUPERGIRL CASTING: Erica Durance, who played Lois Lane on Smallville, has joined the cast of The CW's Supergirl for a recurring arc. She will be taking over the role of Kara's late mother, Alura, from Laura Benanti.
SEPTEMBER 2017 SOLICITATIONS
Below are solicitations posted for September. Click on the publisher's name for the full listings and look for more listings soon here in The Continuum.
* AMIGO COMICS.
* ARCHIE COMICS.
* BONGO COMICS.
* DARK HORSE COMICS.
* DC COMICS.
* IDW PUBLISHING.
* IMAGE COMICS.
* MARVEL COMICS.
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