After hinting on social media months ago that she was getting the opportunity to write fan favorite Donna Troy, we now know that the original Wonder Girl is leading an unlikely team of heroes and villains to take on an old threat from DC's past.
The timing may have nothing to do with last week's Twilight of DC's office, but Marvel Comics Executive Editor Mike Marts leaving a post where he was clearly being groomed for big things to go to a START-UP, is an interesting comment on the state of the American comics industry. Marts confirmed on Twitter that he was leaving Marvel for AfterShock Comics, a new venture with writer Joe Pruett. Deadline has more details. Pruett has written X-Men titles for Marvel. Marts was working on various high profile titles including Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men comics. Marts will become Editor-in-Chief of Aftershock comics after pingponging back between MArvel and Dc for a career that started in 1996.
At NYCC Retailer Day, Marvel's new Editor in Chief Steve Wacker spent more than half an hour telling store owners what they can expect from the new Marvel
Michael Gray, a teen idol who walked away from Hollywood after playing Billy Batson on the 1974-76 Shazam! series, died of natural causes on Friday, October 16.
Tangles, an animated film based on Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir about her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, features the voices of Abbi Jacobson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Seth Rogen, Samira Wiley, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, and Pamela Adlon.
