Vault Comics is extremely excited to announce FINGER GUNS, a new comic book series written by Justin Richards, drawn by Val Halvorson, colored by Rebecca Nalty, lettered by Taylor Esposito, and designed by Tim Daniel.

In FINGER GUNS, two troubled teenagers discover they can manipulate emotions by firing finger guns. There will be laughs. There will be tears. There will be uncomfortable teen feelings and angst. Oh yeah.. And chaos. So much chaos.

"FINGER GUNS is a deceptively brave story," says Vault Editor-in-Chief, Adrian Wassel. "It’s about kids, who have the strange ability to point their fingers at people and—bang—manipulate their emotions, but it is not a story for kids. FINGER GUNS handles some heavy themes and tough imagery with such a deft touch you could almost miss it—almost. You’ll see a young white kid running around blasting people with a finger gun that makes them powerfully angry. You’ll see a young girl of color firing a calm gun to stem the chaotic tide. You’ll see these two become friends—support each other, learn from each other, and even hurt each other, in equal measure. FINGER GUNS is a book about emotional maturity, what it takes to grow up, how few of us actually do, and the importance of harnessing compassion in an age of selfishness. Like I said, it’s deceptively brave. You’ll have so much fun, right up until you feel the tears welling."

"I had a dream that I could control emotions by pointing a finger gun at someone," says writer Justin Richards. "This happened right as I was trying to decide if writing comics was a career I was capable of pursuing. I woke up and thought, “Okay, what did my brain just give me to work with? Did it hand me a masterpiece filled to the brim with brilliant plot twists and subversive narrative threads, the likes of which no one has ever seen? No. It gave me Finger Guns"

"As someone who battles with depression, I’ve always felt like an outcast—and this was no exception," adds Richards. "I felt like my dream about kids with emotion-manipulating finger guns was proof that I didn’t belong in the writing industry. I felt embarrassed to tell anyone about it. It took a while, and the help of some friends, to realize I wasn’t alone. Not only was I not alone, but that painful sense of loneliness could be powerful—if explored."

“When I first read the script for FINGER GUNS, it instantly clicked," says artist Val Halvorson. "It took me back to when I was younger, trying to navigate through the ups and downs of being a teenager. I'm a recently transitioning trans man so I've been thinking about that time quite a lot recently, considering I'm currently going through a puberty I never got to experience back then. So as you can imagine, as a music loving sad boy going through puberty 2, I relate to the character, Wes, a great deal. There's just something so real and timeless about this story that I really appreciate. It feels nostalgic, even though it takes place in the present, but it never pulls its punches or sugar coats what it's like to grow up."

FINGER GUNS #1 will hit store shelves in February 2020. The first issue will drop with its own Pulp & Paint variant cover by Nathan Gooden & Tim Daniel.

Deadline reports that Warner Bros. had more release date changes and announcements today in the wake of yesterday’s avalanche of news with dates for Matrix 4 and The Flash.

New Line’s DC Shazam! 2 will open on April 1, 2022 taking the place of an RSVP that the studio had for an untitled WB Event Film. There are no other major studio releases on that date and the date falls prior to Easter that year which is April 17.

In addition, the MGM co-produced Sesame Street film jumps from June 4, 2021 to Jan. 14, 2022, the MLK 4-day holiday weekend. The only other pic on that date is 20th Century Fox’s Nimona.

THR reports that Andy Cohen is the latest big name to land a show at Quibi.

The short-form streaming platform has ordered six episodes of animated series The Andy Cohen Diaries, which will chronicle "iconic and untold moments" from the life of the Watch What Happens Live host and Real Housewives franchise executive producer.

Variety reports that HBO Max is developing a series based on the Grisworld family from the National Lampoon’s Vacation films.

Titled The Griswolds, the series will see the titular family home from vacation and explore their daily lives in the suburbs of modern-day Chicago. Tim Hobert is attached to write and executive produce the half-hour single-camera series. Johnny Galecki and Holly Brown will also executive produce under their Alcide Bava production banner. Cory Wood of Alcide Bava will produce. Warner Bros. Television will serve as the studio behind the project.

The project represents a homecoming of sorts for Galecki, who starred as Russ Griswold in the third film in the franchise, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The other films are National Lampoon’s Vacation, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Vegas Vacation, and Vacation. The last of those was released in 2015 and starred Ed Helms as an adult Russ as he takes his own family on a trip that does not go as planned.

The New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award winning comics titan Robert Kirkman (Oblivion Song, The Walking Dead) is teaming with Eisner winning artist Chris Samnee (Daredevil), Eisner Award winning colorist Matt Wilson (Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine), and letterer Rus Wooton (The Walking Dead), to bring fans an all-new, full color, action-packed ongoing series—Fire Power—which will launch from Image/Skybound in May 2020.


“Getting to create a whole new world with its own mythology and rules is always the highlight of my life. Getting to do that with Chris Samnee is definitely a high water mark in this dusty old career of mine,” said Kirkman. “With a massive cast of characters populating this sprawling globe-spanning epic Chris has proven more than adept at handling anything I've thrown at him in the time we've been toiling away on this series in secret. Kung Fu, Fireballs, Chris Samnee, crazy action, Chris Samnee, Chris Samnee. What more could I say to get you excited about this book?”

This is the first new project from Kirkman since the surprise conclusion to his pop culture phenomenon The Walking Dead. Fire Power will more than fill a walker-sized hole in your monthly pull list. This new series also marks Samnee's return to comics after wrapping up his bestselling run on Captain America that concluded in early 2018.

Owen Johnson's journey to China to learn about his birth parents eventually leads him to a mysterious Shaolin Temple. The students there study to rediscover the Fire Power, the lost art of throwing fireballs. A power they claim will be needed soon to save the world. Will Owen Johnson be the first person in a thousand years to wield the Fire Power?

THR reports that, as the year-end holidays get underway in earnest this weekend with the debut of Sony's all-audience event sequel Jumanji: The Next Level, Clint Eastwood's drama Richard Jewell and the microbudgeted Blumhouse/Universal slasher remake Black Christmas.

Jumanji 2 is expected to top the chart with a debut in the $40 million to $50 million range, although Sony is being more conservative in suggesting $35 million.

Movies opening close to Christmas aren't traditionally known for big openings — outside of the recent Star Wars pics — but rather count on strong multiples during the final two weeks of the year.

This time out, Jumanji 2 opted to open a week before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, whereas the 2017 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle rode into theaters Dec. 20 with a $36 million domestic debut a week after Star Wars: The Last Jedi launched to $220 million.

Despite competition from The Last Jedi and other titles, Welcome to the Jungle went on to earn $404.5 million in North America and $962.1 million globally. (The challenge for Next Level — which sees the return of stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart — is to avoid being infected by the sequelitis bug that has doomed a number of franchise installments this year.)

Deadline reports that MGM has set Alex Ross Perry to adapt and direct The Dark Half, a new adaptation of the 1989 Stephen King bestseller.

Perry popped after writing, directing and producing Her Smell, the drama that premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, and for which Elisabeth Moss is Spirit Awards-nominated for her portrayal as a self-destructive rock star.

Perry plans a reinvention of a story first turned into a 1993 MGM film by the late zombie impresario George Romero. That film starred Timothy Hutton as an author whose books sell OK and have a literary vibe to them. They don’t sell nearly as well as grisly crime thrillers he writes under an alter ego. Once his pseudonym is exposed, the author and his wife decide to give the other author a ceremonial burial. And then the people who were involved in doing that start turning up dead as it appears the alter ago has taken on a life of his own.

On Wednesday, The CW released a preview for "Varsity Blues", the tenth episode of Riverdale's fourth season.

"Varsity Blues" airs January 15 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on The CW.

Preview: https://youtu.be/10kzxE27HY8

Pierce Brosnan is getting the royal treatment for Sony's Cinderella musical.

The actor has joined the growing cast of the retelling of the classic fairy tale from writer-director Kay Cannon as the musical comedy's resident king.

Camila Cabello tops a call sheet that includes Billy Porter as the fairy godmother and Idina Menzel as the evil stepmother, as well as U.K. actor Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Robert. Brosnan will play the latter's father.

The Columbia project reimagines the traditional Cinderella story in which our heroine is an ambitious young woman whose dreams are bigger than the world will allow. (via THR)

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BOOM! Studios, in partnership with 20th Century Fox, today revealed a first look at FIREFLY: THE OUTLAW MA REYNOLDS, an oversized special one-shot written by acclaimed writer Greg Pak (Ronin Island), artists Davide Gianfelice (Nightwing) and George Kambadais (The Black Ghost), colorist Joana Lafuente (Jim Henson’s Labyrinth), and letterer Jim Campbell (Abbott, Coda), about the singular person who shaped Captain Malcolm Reynolds into the fearsome Browncoat and fearless leader he is today—his mother.

Captain Malcolm Reynolds—thief, smuggler, resistance fighter, and now captain of a crew of outcasts all the way on the farthest reaches of the ‘verse—wasn’t born an outlaw but he comes by it honestly. Turns out, his mother, the infamous Maude Reynolds, is at the top of the Alliance’s Most Wanted, and if Mal doesn’t get to her first, the Alliance will! Kicking off a new year of Firefly, discover the secret history of Mal and his mother, what that will mean for the rest of the ‘verse...and a new brewing war to end all wars.

FIREFLY: THE OUTLAW MA REYNOLDS #1 features a main cover by award-winning artist Ethan Young (Nanjing: The Burning City) and variant covers by artists Ming Doyle (The Kitchen) and Michael Walsh (Black Hammer/Justice League).

Created by Whedon and set 500 years in the future in the wake of a universal civil war, FIREFLY centers on the crew of Serenity, a small transport spaceship that doesn't have a planet to call home. Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds, a defeated soldier who opposed the unification of the planets by the totalitarian Alliance, will undertake any job — legal or not — to stay afloat and keep his crew fed. Thrust together by necessity but staying together out of loyalty, these disparate men and women are seeking adventure and the good life, but face constant challenges on the new frontier, such as avoiding capture by the Alliance, and evading the dangers you find on the fringes of the ‘verse.

FIREFLY: THE OUTLAW MA REYNOLDS #1 is available January 15, 2020 exclusively in comic shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one) or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Madefire.

Available now, Firefly: Legacy Edition Book One collects previously released Serenity comics for the first time under one cover in a new value-priced format as Mal & the crew ride again in these official sequels to the critically acclaimed Firefly television series and Serenity film.

FIREFLY: THE OUTLAW MA REYNOLDS #1 is the newest release from BOOM! Studios’ eponymous imprint, home to critically acclaimed original series, including Once & Future by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora; Faithless by Brian Azzarello and Maria Llovet; Abbott by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä; Bury The Lede by Gaby Dunn and Claire Roe; Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell ‘Edera; Klaus by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora; Folklords by Matt Kindt and Matt Smith; and upcoming The Red Mother by Jeremy Haun and Danny Luckert. The imprint also publishes popular licensed properties including Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Jordie Bellaire and David López; Angel from Bryan Edward Hill and Gleb Melnikov; and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Ryan Parrott and Daniele Di Nicuolo.