The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is becoming an opera. James Tynion IV is taking on the Jersey Devil in a new series. Dynamite announces a Zootopia ongoing series.
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Many Deaths of Laila Starr… The opera?
James Tynion IV is taking on the Jersey Devil.
Dynamite announces Zootopia ongoing series.
This is Comic Book Club News for October 17, 2024.
The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr Getting Turned Into An Opera:
Ram V and Filipe Andrade’s The Many Deaths of Laila Starr has had critics and fans alike singing its praises. And now, the Minnesota Opera will be singing about the BOOM! Studios book, albeit in a different way: by turning it into an opera.
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr will be adapted by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Minita Gandhi as part of the Minnesota Opera company’s New Works initiative. It will receive a piano workshop in November, which involves individual musical coaching and ensemble rehearsals, so the team can receive feedback on the piece. Short version, don’t buy your tickets to Minnesota yet, as an actual production is still a ways away.
If you missed the Eisner-award-nominated comic, it follows Laila Starr “an avatar of Death, who is cast down to Earth after humanity discovers immortality. As she intersects with the life of Darius, the boy responsible for this discovery, Laila experiences multiple deaths and resurrections, gaining new perspectives on mortality and the meaning of existence.”
Generally hailed as one of, if not the best comic of 2021, Ram V and Filipe Andrade have recently reteamed for BOOM! Studios Rare Flavours. We’ll see if that gets adapted into an opera, as well. Or a cooking show. Though hopefully not, because it’s about a demon who eats people.
BOOM! is touting that this is “the first ever operatic adaptation of a comic book or graphic novel, and the full production is slated to premiere at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts at a date to be announced.”
James Tynion IV Taking On Jersey Devil In New Dark Horse Series:
James Tynion IV is a busy guy. From teasing 12 graphic novels to launching his own newspaper, the creator is unstoppable. And he’s just going to keep going, announcing an extension of his True Weird line from Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion, titled Let This One Be a Devil.
The four-issue miniseries tackles the urban legend of the cryptid known as the Jersey Devil, aka Chris Christie. Just kidding. The book will be written by Tynion and Steve Foxe, and illustrated by Piotr Kowalski.
Here’s the official synopsis: “In the early 1900s, Henry Naughton returns home to the family farm in the swampy Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey. One night, he encounters a strange predator stalking the woods. This sends the young scholar on a research project that uncovers the legend of Mother Leeds and the terrible birth of the Jersey Devil in 1735.”
Let This One Be a Devil #1 hits stores on February 19, 2025.
Dynamite Announces Zootopia Ongoing Series:
Are you ready to Hopps into something totally Wilde? Dynamite and Disney are teaming up for a new Zootopia ongoing comic book series, written by Jeff Parker, with art by Alessandro Ranaldi.
Picking up where the hit 2016 film left off, Zootopia PD officers Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde are on the case. This time they’re investigating Tripp Zebrano, owner of the PB&J cell phone company. When an event is sabotaged bringing the house down on the company, Hopps and Wilde are tasked with digging into what’s really going on in the formerly peaceful city.
Each issue will include a case of the month, as well as the overarching plot. The first issue will hit stores in January 2025.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And when is someone going to turn this podcast into an opera?
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