Peanuts creator Charles Schulz just turned 100. We mean his bones did — he obviously didn’t live that long. But his creation will last forever — one of the greatest comic strips of all time, often cited as THE greatest. On the day of his centennial birthday, almost every single comic strip with a syndication deal expressed their love for him in the largest cooperative tribute the newspaper funnies have ever seen.
Kodansha USA dumped a boatload of announcements during Anime NYC — over 20 titles they plan to bring to the US in English next year. These include the Western debut of the manga based on Miraculous, that French cartoon about the ladybug girl and the cat boy who flirt all the time yet never actually make a move. (If you’re still waiting for something to happen there, you really should have figured it out by now — it’s a gimmick, they will never get together so give up).
As we do every month, we’re spilling the beans on what DC Comics is planning three months from now! The full list of titles lies below, but here are the highlights.
Sony has repeatedly yelled about its plans to give every outlying Spider-Man character their own movie, whether it makes sense or not. So it’s a bit of a surprise that this week, they revealed they’re giving one of those characters their own TV series instead.
When film is concerned, there are only two tales of the Dark Crystal: the original 1982 film, and the prequel TV series that Netflix graciously let happen but then annoyingly killed after one season. When you throw comics into the mix, though…there’s suddenly a lot more. Boom Studios and their subsidiary Archaia have been publishing Dark Crystal stories for years, from prequels to sequels to areas in between. Now they’re giving up the license, but not without printing one giant, massive, hardcover collection of all the work they ever did in Thra.
The landmark manga Record of Lodoss War has turned 30, and to celebrate the anniversary, its original creator Ryo Mizuno has written a new novel that takes place 100 years after the end of the original story. That novel has been turned into a manga itself and UDON Entertainment will be releasing it in English next year.
Along with Hank Pym(Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne(Michelle Pfeiffer), Scott Lang(Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne(Evangeline Lilly) travel the Quantum Realm. There, they encounter with odd species and go on a journey that defies their preconceived notions of what is possible. Yes, Scott and his in-laws will engage on an adventure. Imagine how awkward will it be?
If Final Crisis was the big event of 2022, what’s in store for 2023? The January DC Comics solicitations have the answer. Things are about to get nuts.
US manga localization titans Kodansha have just announced they’ve made arrangements for Hajime Isayama, creator of Attack On Titan, to make his first public appearance in the US. He waited until he’d finished the entire series to do this, but better late than never, right?
Manga publisher Kodansha has revealed three volumes it plans to publish digitally in English next month: Raised by the Demon Kings, The Cafe Terrace and its Goddesses, and Gamaran: Shuma. None are seasonally themed (well, that first one could be interpreted as such, but it’s not really “scary”).
Rick and Morty vs. Cthulhu seems like an idea whose time has come. Or rather, an idea that’s been teased as long as the show has existed. The final shot of the opening sequence in EVERY episode is Rick, Morty and Summer speeding away in a spaceship, being chased by Lovecraft’s most famous monster, who then swallows the screen. Like that box of “Time Travel Stuff,” it seems Cthulhu is a thing the show will forever tease but never actually do…which means it’s up to the comics.