Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Thursday, January 11, 2018

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018

VENOM: TOM HARDY AND RUBEN FLETCHER

Sony Pictures has released a video of Venom star Tom Hardy and director Ruben Fleischer, addressing the Brazilian Comic-Con from the Venom set in Georgia.

To watch the video, CLICK HERE.

Sony also released the first official image of Hardy from the movie.

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Venom will be in theaters on Oct. 8.

MARVEL COMICS FIRST LOOKS

For cover and exclusive five-page preview of Champions #16, arriving in stores on Wednesday, Jan. 17 from Marvel Comics, CLICK HERE.

Look for previews of all the Marvel titles in stores on Jan. 17 tonight at midnight (ET) here in The Continuum.

BLACK MASK STUDIOS' BILLIONAIRE KILLERS

Black Mask Studios has announced a March 28 launch for Billionaire Killers, an ongoing series from writer Matteo Pizzolo and artist Soo Lee.

Here's how Black Mask describes the book:

"The CEO of ExxonMobil is America's Secretary Of State, a hedge fund manager worth $300 million is the Secretary Of The Treasury and a lawyer who sued the EPA 14 times is head of the EPA. It's a world where the President stops even bothering to hide the fact that America is ruled by corporations; a world where the next generation declares: enough. The series follows two young women, Sera and Pru, heiresses to their industrialist fathers' empires, who come to learn the patriarchs of their families earned their fortunes by causing global suffering, and then decide to go to war against their own parents."

"Billionaire Killers is about a new generation assessing the terrible things done by the previous generation," Pizzolo said. "In simplest terms, Billionaire Killers asks: what if someone like Ivanka Trump became radicalized?"

Billionaire Killers is a standalone series that expands on Young Terrorists, the comic by Pizzolo and artist Amancay Nahuelpan.

"You can think of Billionaire Killers as Young Terrorists: Year One, but it also completely works as an altogether new narrative," Pizzolo said. "If there's one thing we've learned in the past 5 years at Black Mask it's that readers love wild, fearless, passionate comics, and that's what Soo Lee and I are aiming for here."

BRIEFLY

FOX SHUFFLE: 20th Century Fox has switched some of its movie dates around.

New Mutants has been moved from April 13 to Feb. 22, 2019.

Deadpool 2 has been moved up two weeks from June 1 to May 18.

Gambit has been moved from Feb. 14, 2019 to June 7, 2019.

CENA A TURTLES VILLAIN: John Cena will provide the voice of an original villain named Baron Draxum in the brand-new 2D animated series Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, premiering late 2018 on Nickeldoeon.

Baron Draxum is an alchemist warrior mutant who seeks to turn all of humanity into mutants. Cena's reoccurring character will appear in the premiere episode and throughout the series, which follows the band of brothers as they encounter new mutants and villains and discover a mystical world they never knew existed beneath the streets of New York City.

VALIANT FIRST LOOKS: For covers and six-page preview of Shadowman #1, arriving in stores on Wednesday, March 30 from Valiant Entertainment, CLICK HERE.

NEW LUCIFER: Fox has released the following description for "Til Death Do Us Part," the episode of Lucifer airing on Monday, Jan. 29:

"When an ecstasy cook-turned-chemistry-teacher is found murdered in a cozy Los Angeles suburb, Lucifer and Pierce must go undercover to help track down the killer. Meanwhile, Maze has a newfound attraction for someone that she used to despise and Charlotte has a revelation."

BLACK WIDOW MOVIE: Marvel Studios is developing a Black Widow movie, to star Scarlett Johansson. Jack Schaeffer is writing the script.

NEW PRINTING: Marvel Comics has announced a second printing for Avengers #675, to be in stores on Feb. 14.