Dynamite formally announces a new ongoing series and new missions for 007 himself, in JAMES BOND, starting this December!



Writing partners Vita Ayala (Morbius, Xena) and Danny Lore (Queen of Bad Dreams) assemble their squad to craft an initial arc dealing with the high stakes world of art forgery. Fan-favorite Eric Gapstur (Animosity: Evolution) returns on art following contributions to Greg Pak's James Bond 007 series. Colorist Roshan Kurichiyanil (Six Million Dollar Man) and letterer Ariana Maher (Nancy Drew, Xena) round out the enlisted agents, returning from their service with previous Bond books as well for visual continuity.

When a priceless, iconic piece of art is deemed a fake, an entire Pandora's Box of international crime and corruption unfolds. But is Bond out of his element or right at home in this world? Art forgery is glamor and splashiness, yet it's also subtlety and sleight of hand. All arenas that James has some expertise in, except for the knowledge...

Co-writers Danny Lore and Vita Ayala are on the same exact page and practically completing each other's sentences regarding their take on the character. "There's cool, and then there's Cool, with a capital C, and for me, that's always been James Bond," said Lore. Ayala chimed in, "Since I can remember, he has been the epitome of suave. His cold efficiency mixed with that dry wit and charming smile... the work gets done, and he gets the girl(s) along the way. There is something timeless about Bond that allows him to be put into almost any era and situation."

Regarding their collaboration, the writing duo shared the December debut of this series will be the 10th anniversary of their friendship, one where shared story development has played a major role. "Vita and I can pass all the ideas in the world back and forth, but it's the rest of the team that gives it the sleek crispness of one of Bond's tailored ensembles," said Lore. "Eric is unstoppable, I am so happy we are on the same wavelength. Roshan is a dream, the work will be blowing people out of their socks! And I am glad Ariana and I are able to work together again - she's a genius!"

Artist Eric Gapstur added, "Danny and Vita wasted no time in knocking me on the floor with the first three pages of the script, laying down an artistic gauntlet that is no doubt the most challenging sequence I've ever drawn. It's exciting!"

To match a straightforward title of simply JAMES BOND, the series will feature just one cover per issue and the star of the show is the legendary Jim Cheung (Justice League, Young Avengers)! Furthermore, he's contributing three connecting covers! Note #2 and #3 pencils may not reflect final line art.



Cheung shared with Dynamite, “It’s been very exciting getting to handle the legendary character of James Bond. The movies were mandatory viewing when I was growing up in England, so when I was offered the chance to do the covers, I couldn’t resist! From the super-spy action to the fast cars, beautiful girls and big explosions, there was just too much to fit into the one cover, so thankfully Nate Cosby offered me three! I decided to try and tie them all together to create a triptych, which I love doing. Hopefully I’m able to capture the non-stop action of this series, and cannot wait to read the book myself!"

"As all the wonderful creators have noted, Bond is one of the foundational figures in our fictional tapestry. Fleming's creation has influenced endless copycats and continues to be reinterpreted in entertaining and relevant ways. The story that Vita and Danny have laid out is so great, as if it were a feature itself - and that's where an artist of Eric's ability helps to provide scope and range. Add Jim's incredible covers as the "movie poster" to get fans new and old excited, and it's a perfect Bond adventure that I can't wait for fans to read and enjoy," said Nick Barrucci, Dynamite CEO and Publisher. Publishing this character in comics is a great honor for us and we're excited for fans to read what these agents bring to the table!"

JAMES BOND #1 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors’ October 2019 Previews catalog, the premier source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market, and slated for release in December 2019. Comic book fans are encouraged to preorder copies of the issue with their local comic book retailers. It will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Kindle, iBooks, Google Play, Dynamite Digital, ComicsPlus, and more!

Spooky Season is finally upon us, and Netflix is preparing for the arrival of October with some new additions designed specifically for Halloween. In addition to Adam Sandler's latest, Hubie Halloween, Netflix is releasing the teen thriller A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, which pits a group of young babysitters against dark forces that have a dangerous agenda in mind. On Friday, Netflix released the first trailer for the film. (via ComicBook)

Synopsis: "When high school freshman Kelly Ferguson (Tamara Smart) reluctantly agrees to babysit Jacob Zellman (Ian Ho) on Halloween, the last thing she expects is to be recruited into an international secret society of babysitters who protect kids with special powers from monsters. In order to keep Jacob safe from harm, Kelly teams with no-nonsense chapter Vice President Liz Lerue (Oona Laurence), tech genius Berna Vincent (Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson), creature expert Cassie Zhen (Lynn Masako Cheng) and potions master Curtis Critter (Ty Consiglio) to defeat a Boogeyman known as The Grand Guignol (Tom Felton), a glamorous witch named Peggy Drood (Indya Moore) and their legion of mysterious monsters."

A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting arrives on Netflix on October 15th.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/MKR33fJ_yPw

At the start of this year, October was looking huge for Andrew Koji. Warrior, the groundbreaking Cinemax series launches into Season 2 starting on October 2nd. Koji plays the lead role of Ah Sahm, the character that Bruce Lee wrote for himself in his 8-page treatment that inspired the series. That’s still on. However, Koji’s first starring role on the big screen is off. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins which was originally scheduled to premiere three weeks later, has been postponed until next year.

Snake Eyes aspires to be a back-door pilot for the G.I. Joe franchise akin to what Bumblebee was for Transformers. Both franchises are Hasbro properties based on their iconic and lucrative toy lines, and there’s even talk of a crossover film connecting the G.I. Joe and Transformers universes.

Snake Eyes capitalizes on the growing popularity of the G.I. Joe ninjas, conveniently increasing marketability for the flourishing Asian markets. The standout scene in G.I. Joe: Retaliation was the ninja cliff battle. In 3D, that scene delivered just the sort of eye-popping spectacle that fandom craves.

In the first two installments, G.I. Joe ninjas remained masked, but since this is an origin story, they’ll don their masks for Snake Eyes. Originally, Snake Eyes was played by Ray Park, Darth Maul from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) takes over that titular role for the new film. Koji takes over the role of Storm Shadow who was originally played by Lee Byung-hun (Terminator: Genisys). Filling out the cast are martial arts master Iko Uwais (The Raid), internationally acclaimed Ursula Corbero (Money Heist), and ingénue Samara Weaving (Bill & Ted Face the Music). (via Den of Geek)

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is now scheduled to open on Oct. 22, 2021.

Bestselling writer Dan Watters (Coffin Bound, Lucifer) reteams with fan favorite artist Caspar Wijngaard (Star Wars, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt) for an ongoing series in Home Sick Pilots. The new ongoing horror comic will launch from Image Comics this December.

Watters and Wijngaard debuted at Image with their critically acclaimed, day-glo drenched miniseries Limbo back in 2015, and return to the publisher for a fresh, new, neon thriller.

In Home Sick Pilots, in the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead singer of a high school punk band—who’s been missing for weeks. How did she get there, and what do these ghosts want? Expect three-chord songs and big bloody action that’s Power Rangers meets The Shining (yes, really).

“They say write what you know—well what I know is a teenage hellscape filled with pitfalls and secret etiquettes and beautiful broken people,” Watters said. “We’re about to send the Home Sick Pilots—the power trio of Ami, Buzz and Rip—out of that same hellscape into another, and hope that they survive.”

“We've all had at least one unforgettable summer as teens, late nights, parties, gigs, stolen booze, heartbreak and most importantly friendships. Except in this instance the teens are causing chaos in ectoplasmic power suits whilst haunted houses are fist fighting on the horizon,” added Wijngaard.

Home Sick Pilots #1 (Diamond Code OCT200017) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, December 9.

Home Sick Pilots #1 will also be available for purchase across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, comiXology, and Google Play.

Variety reports that Samuel L. Jackson is set to reprise the role of Nick Fury in a new Marvel series currently in development at Disney+.

The exact plot details of the show are being kept under wraps, but multiple sources say Jackson is attached to star with Kyle Bradstreet attached to write and executive produce. Like all the other Marvel shows at Disney+, Marvel Studios will produce.

Reps for Jackson, Bradstreet, and Disney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Jackson famously portrayed Fury, the monocular head of the clandestine government agency S.H.I.E.L.D, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe going back to the post-credits scene in the first Iron Man film in 2008. He has appeared in multiple films within the MCU since, most recently portraying Fury in Spider-Man: Far from Home, Avengers: Endgame, and Captain Marvel. He also played the character in two episodes of the ABC series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The last time fans saw Fury was in the post-credits scene of Far From Home, where he was onboard a Skrull ship somewhere in deep space.

Deadlinereports that Fox’s Family Guy has recast the role of Cleveland Brown with YouTube star Arif Zahir.

Mike Henry, who had voiced Brown since the show’s inception in 1999, announced in June that he was stepping down from the role. “I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color,” Henry, who is white, said in his announcement about playing Cleveland, who is black.

Henry will remain a voice cast series regular on Family Guy, He will continue to play Bruce the Performance Artist, Herbert the Pedophile and a slew of ancillary roles and likely will help create new characters to voice.

Zahir will begin voicing Cleveland for Season 19 episodes which have just begun production. In Season 18, whose episodes had already been completed or were in advanced stages of animation when Henry exited the Cleveland role, will continue to feature Henry as the character. The season premieres Sunday night with the show’s 350th episode.

Evel Knievel once said that he “would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.”

The legendary stunt rider’s son is clearly taking those words to heart with a new lawsuit against Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar over the Duke Caboom character introduced in last year’s Toy Story 4.

“Defendants have used in commerce, and continue to use in commerce, the likeness, reputation, and image of Evel Knievel in the film Toy Story 4 through Defendants’ depiction of Duke Caboom, and has exploited the same connection through marketing, promotion, advertising, and sales of Toy Story 4, and in connection with the manufacturing, distribution, marketing, advertising, promotion, and sales of the Duke Caboom action figure, all without the consent or approval of K&K,” claims the trademark infringement complaint filed on September 22 in federal court in Las Vegas, the site of many of Evel’s most death-defying exploits (READ IT HERE).

“As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ unlawful appropriation of Evel Knievel’s rights of publicity, K&K has suffered, and will continue to suffer, monetary damages to its business, reputation, and goodwill,” the jury trial seeking action from the self-described Last Gladiator’s son and K and K Promotions boss Kelly Knievel goes on to say of the Keanu Reeves-voiced character in the movie.

“The claims are without merit and we intend to defend against them vigorously in court,” a spokesperson for the Pixar-owning House of Mouse said today. (via Deadline)

Batwoman season 2 set photos (via Canadagraphs) offer the first look at Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder.

Batwoman like all the Arrowverse series is set to return to The CW in January 2021, or thereabouts.

The Simpsons is following through on its pledge to have non-white actors voice characters of color on the show.

The Fox series will feature Alex Désert (The Flash, Better Things) voicing Carl Carlson, Homer's (Dan Castellaneta) nuclear plant co-worker, in Sunday's season premiere. Hank Azaria had played the part for nearly the show's entire run prior to that.

What's unclear is whether Désert will continue in the role. A statement from the show reads, "We are very pleased to welcome Alex Désert, playing Carl in the Simpsons season premiere." Reps for The Simpsons declined further comment.

The casting of Désert — at least for this episode — makes good on a June statement from Simpsons producers that "Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters."

The change came as the industry faced a reckoning over its record of inclusivity in the face of widespread social and racial justice protests over the summer. Animated series including Netflix's Big Mouth and Apple's Central Park also made moves to recast BIPOC characters with actors of color, and Family Guy regular Mike Henry said he would no longer voice the character of Cleveland Brown, who's Black, on the show. (via THR)

BOOM! Studios today revealed a brand new look at cartoonist and illustrator Audra Winslow’s debut middle grade graphic novel, JO & RUS, with letterer Mike Fiorentino, about two unlikely best friends who learn to roll with the punches when life doesn’t go their way and to stand their ground, no matter the cost, available in February 2021.

At first, Jo and Rus don’t realize how much they have in common - she’s a middle schooler who’s constantly bullied and he’s a high schooler in a rock band. But when a mysterious one-eyed cat brings the two of them together, they quickly learn they’re both outcasts trying to figure out what they really want from life in a world where the odds are stacked against them. It’s only by becoming friends they discover who they are, who they want to be and what it takes for every one of us to find our own happiness!

JO & RUS is the latest release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning KaBOOM! imprint, home to comics for middle grade and younger readers including original series such as Just Beyond by R.L. Stine and Kelly & Nichole Matthews, Hex Vet by Sam Davies, RuinWorld by Derek Laufman, Hotel Dare by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre, Pandora’s Legacy by Bones Leopard and Kelly & Nichole Matthews, as well as Wonder Pony by Marie Spénale and Space Bear by Ethan Young.

Print copies of JO & RUS will be available for sale in February 2021 at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the one nearest you), bookstores or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Madefire.