Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is coming to Marvel Comics. Timeslide #1 teases Marvel’s future. J.H. Williams III is tackling Dracula for Image Comics.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is heading to comics.
Timeslide to tease Marvel future.
J.H. Williams III to tackle Dracula.
This is Comic Book Club News for September 12, 2024.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Prequel Comic Coming From Marvel:
Sure you know Spider-Man is an animated icon from shows like the upcoming Disney+ series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. But what if there were Spider-Man comics, too? Well guess what: a five-issue limited series prequel comic for the upcoming animated series is coming from Marvel.
Written by Christos Gage with art by Eric Gapstur, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will introduce the TV show’s version of Peter Parker, his supporting cast, and some of the villains. It will also include “some of the amazing adventures to come in this highly anticipated animated series that takes place during Peter’s earliest days as Spider-Man,” per a press release from Marvel provided to Comic Book Club.
“I’ve had the privilege of writing a lot of Spider-Man’s adventures, both in comics and in the Insomniac video games, but one thing I’ve never gotten the chance to do is recount his earliest exploits,” Gage said. “And the exciting part about this book is it’s a brand new take on those formative times. While this is definitely Peter Parker, the Spidey we know and love, he’s got a new cast of supporting characters – including Nico Minoru, who you may know from Runaways – and some surprising twists!”
While we don’t know at this time if the prequel comic will hit before the series, or after like the X-Men ’97 prequel comic, we do know the first issue hits stores on December 11.
Timeslide #1 Teases Marvel’s Future:
Cable and Bishop are back! The time-traveling duo will be anchoring Timeslide #1, this year’s version of Timeless, the one-shot that teases the future of the Marvel Universe.
Written by Steve Foxe with art by Ivan Fiorelli, the one-shot will find Cable and Bishop traveling the timestream to prevent a mystery villain from wiping mutant-kind from history. In the process, they’ll get a glimpse of what’s coming up for Marvel heroes and villains, including teasers of events, characters, and more.
What’s perhaps most interesting about this beyond the title change is that X-Men editor Tom Brevoort noted that time travelers like Cable would be off the table for a while. Seems like “Christmas” is the outset of a while. And in case you think Brevoort is somehow unaware this is happening, he is very much aware. In fact, it was his idea!
Foxe said via a press release provided to Comic Book Club: “I was thrilled when Tom Brevoort reached out about Timeslide. These annual mega-issues have become a perennial favorite of mine, both as a standalone story of their own and as a sneak peak of what’s to come for the year ahead. Getting to structure this one around Cable and Bishop—two of my favorite mutants, and two I didn’t write much during my prior X-tenure—was icing on the chrono-cake.”
The issue hits on December 25, 2024, just in time for Christmas.
J.H. Williams III To Tackle Dracula:
J.H. Williams III, the iconic artist behind Echolands, The Sandman: Overture, and more, is reinventing another icon for Image Comics: the OG vampire himself, in Dracula: A Storybook Portfolio.
Per the name, the volume is less a graphic novel and more like an “illustrated children’s book, juxtaposing paintings with pages of story,” per a press release provided by Image Comics. The book includes 150 pages of painted illustrations and story passages by Williams III, and will hit just in time for Halloween.
“Since I talk about what inspired this project in the foreword inside the book, I’ll just say that I’m excited to have it come out,” said Williams III. “I don’t think I’ve seen a book quite like this in the modern era. I sought to make it a different kind of thing than what some would expect, an attempt to marry portfolio illustrations with brief passages to create a narrative structure that most art books don’t tend to focus on. Because of it having a single narrative subject, the illustration choices are reflective of that.
“I gave the prose sections a subtle older style, but delivered with a somewhat brisk sensibility. All with a desire to have it call back to classic storybooks that often became annual favorites of the young and old. Every aspect of the book, with the assistance of Image Comics’ Drew Gill, is geared toward that simple but pleasant idea. The result is unique and hopefully satisfying.”
The book will hit comic book stores on October 9, and bookstores on October 22.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And if you tackle Dracula, is he called Tackula?
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