New York Comic Con is back and The Beat is on the scene! At the end of each day, we’ll round up our NYCC ’19 coverage so you don’t miss a single headline, whether you’re on the con floor at the Javits Center or following along from somewhere else. Friday’s Comic Con news included the Harvey Awards, new series announcements from the Big Two, Dave Gibbons giving HBO’s Watchmen his blessing, and more.
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Without further ado, here’s all of Friday’s Comic Con news in one place!
- New STRANGER THINGS miniseries coming from Dark Horse
- Comic creators team-up at DC World’s Finest panel
- A HARLEY QUINN Black Label series is coming from Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti
- “Comics and the Clinic” panel explores comics and mental health with creators & experts
- Revisiting Y THE LAST MAN & talking the future in Y for FX
- Scholastic reveals THE HUNGER GAMES prequel novel cover and title
- Rooster Teeth’s RWBY panels let loose new information, spoilers and maybe some Grimm
- Dark Horse and Panda Mony Toys partner for ALTER NATION graphic novel, digital comic
- DC Comics is fleshing out a timeline, defining four generations of heroes
- THE GRUDGE reboot goes R-rated and promises to give ‘f’ed up’ a whole new meaning
- Sturgill Simpson and Jason Aaron team up for SOUND & FURY
- Making comics the Marvel way
- Marvel’s Runaways Season 3 trailer teases magical mayhem, plus CLOAK AND DAGGER
- Amy Reeder to write and draw AMETHYST for DC Comics
- New Marvel STAR WARS ongoing series and more from the Lucasfilm publishing panel
- Ewing & Cabal relaunching GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY in January
- LGBT+ Artists in Artist Alley Round-Up
- THOR relaunching in January with Cates & Klein
- Is Billy Dee Williams the original Star Wars daddy?
- Sana Amanat in conversation at NYPL
- A bird’s eye view of the first day on the con floor
- WATCHMEN panel wows fans with first episode screening
- Grab a cricket protein bar at the SNOWPIERCER pop-up experience
- BOOM! Studios announces new series from Si Spurrier and Evan Narcisse, ALIENATED
- The Kingpin comes to Joe Quesada’s Cup O’ Joe Panel
- So, what’s “Marvel’s Next Big Thing”? Iron Man 2020 & more
- DC Nation panel talks continuity, new stories
- Friday’s ALL ELITE WRESTLING panel was a joyously lively affair
- Presenting the 2019 Harvey Awards winners
In case you missed it, here’s Thursday’s news:
- Kelly Thompson’s STAR gets her own mini-series
- Javits construction continues concurrently with comic con
- Lion Forge and BINC’s new Forge Fund to invest in comic retailer market
- THE NEIL GAIMAN LIBRARY coming next year from Dark Horse
- Dumplin’ author Julie Murphy narrates Faith Herbert’s teen years in new book FAITH: TAKING FLIGHT
- MONSTRESS creators Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda discuss hit comic
- AMC unveils second THE WALKING DEAD spin-off show
- Christopher Eccleston reflects on his first act
- Jim Lee, Brad Meltzer to team on story about Batman, real-life war hero
- How the cast & crew moved “From Page to Stage” with THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL
- James Wan is heading to GIDEON FALLS
- Bringing the Force to VADER IMMORTAL: A STAR WARS VR series panel
- Hasbro reveals new Marvel Legends figures, including Stan Lee & more X-Men
- Nick Kroll announces BIG MOUTH spin-off, HUMAN RESOURCES
- Molcher, Ennis, Vansant, Thompson & de Campi explore the history of war comics
- DC publishers reiterate line-wide plans, tease future
- NYPL welcomes fans to the Nerd Palace, a.k.a. the New York Public Library
For more NYCC ’19, including what we covered pre-show, click here.
