Godzilla vs. Marvel will launch in 2025. Skybound’s next Universal Monsters series is The Mummy. BOOM! Studios reveals “20 for 20” line for 20th anniversary.
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Godzilla vs. Marvel launches in 2025.
Universal Monsters next series is The Mummy.
BOOM! Studios reveals 20 for 20.
This is Comic Book Club News for December 16, 2024.
Godzilla Vs. Marvel Series Launching In 2025:
Coming in 2025? Godzilla Vs. Marvel, a six issue event series that pits the king of the monsters against the Marvel Universe.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the six issues will find Godzilla in different decades, teaming up with different members of the Marvel Comics universe, from different creative teams. In March, the one-shot from Ryan North and John Romita Jr. will find King Ghidorah becoming the herald of Galactus, and Godzilla teaming up with the Silver Surfer to stop him, all set int he 1960s. Subsequent issues will feature the Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man, X-Men, and more.
This marks the first time Godzilla has crossed over with the Marvel Universe since the 1970s, when the publisher released the in-continuity Godzilla: King of the Monsters from 1977 through 1979. Whether the new series will make reference to that one? TBD.
Universal Monsters The Mummy Is The Next Series From Skybound:
Faith Erin Hicks is wrapping her hands around The Mummy for Skybound, as the publisher has revealed Universal Monsters: The Mummy will be the next book in their line reinventing the classic creatures.
Alongside colors by Lee Loughridge, the new book will present, per PR, a “bold new vision” of The Mummy, and hit comic book shops in March 2025.
While Dracula was mostly a straight retelling, Creature from the Black Lagoon was a sequel, and the recently concluded Frankenstein was a brand-new look at the classic, The Mummy will give its own take, as well.
In the book, “Helen Grosvenor is a woman born to two worlds and belonging in neither, forever haunted by a cursed encounter as a child. When unknown voices bring her back to an Egyptian dig site from her past, Helen will unknowingly play an unexpected role in the rise of a monster known only as…THE MUMMY!”
Universal Monsters: The Mummy #1 will hit stores on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
BOOM! Studios Reveals 20 For 20 Line:
In 2025, BOOM! Studios celebrates its 20th anniversary — and they’re passing the celebration on to you with the 20 for 20 line, which takes 20 iconic titles from the publisher and releases them in new trade paperbacks for $20 each — or rather, $19.99.
Not only that, but the 20 for 20 line will collect the entire runs of the books in question, many for the very first time. The collections will release every month of 2025, and include stories like, per PR, “Justin Jordan and artist Ariela Kristantina’s conspiracy thriller, Deep State, in January; followed by Mech Cadets creator Greg Pak and illustrator Giannis Milonogiannis’s historical epic Ronin Island, and the fan-favorite Sam Humphries and Caitlin Rose Boyle beloved BOOM! Box classic Jonesy, in February.”
It’s hard not to see this as an extension of the success of DC Comics’s Compact Comics line. And while it’s twice the money, collecting full runs at a still relatively affordable $20 is a celebration, indeed.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And I think Godzilla is gonna beat Marvel, that’s my take.
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