What's going on in the world of comics and comic-related media today? Let's take a gander:
The first trailer for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse drops tomorrow. In advance of that, we have an ominus teaser poster with a burning X-Emblem and the tagline, "Only the strong will survive." It's vague, but the last two X-Men films have been pretty good, half-abandoning the building continuity of the first three movie and half-embracing it. Aside from Mr. Sinister, Apocalypse is the pretty much the only big bad the X-Men have left to explore in movie form. Images seen so far from the movie have divided the fanbase, but the big litmus test will be the teaser tomorrow. Let's see how Purple Rain En Sabah Nur looks in motion. The release dat for X-Men: Apocalypse is May 27, 2016.
Horror trilogy and great date movie fodder The Human Centipede has inspired a manga. Centipede Human: Final Liberation by Ryuta Yoshinaga started its serialization in Nemesis magazine in Japan.
Dark Horse Comics will publish The Secret Loves of Geek Girls next October. The anthology features the work of Margaret Atwood, Marjorie Liu, and many more spotlighting love and life through a geek girl prism. The project ran a successful Kickstarter, earning over $100,000. Guess girls read comics too. Strange times.
DC All-Access talked to their current stable of big gun creators about the impact and influence of Frank Miller's seminal Dark Knight Returns today. Call it a puff piece, but I doubt anyone in the video is exaggerating about their respect for the series. I haven't gotten a chance to read issue one of the current continuation, The Master Race, but I may enjoy it strictly on a fanboy level. I don't know if even the killer creative team of Azzarello and Kubert can replicate what made that first series so special, but Miller himself is at the helm, so may he can sprinkle some of that cranky, old man magic on it.
Well that's what caught my eye while scouring for what looks good. More back issue reviews and other content to come!
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