The Killer is getting a sequel. Giant-Size X-Men changes Marvel history. IDW reveals Godzilla Universe plans.
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The Killer getting a sequel.
Giant-Size X-Men changes Marvel’s history.
IDW reveals Godzilla Universe plans.
This is the 375th episode of Comic Book Club News for February 21, 2025.
The Killer Gets A Sequel:
The Killer, the lauded French crime series by Matz and Luc Jacamon which inspired the excellent David Fincher movie, is getting a sequel from BOOM! Studios.
Titled The Killer: Affairs of the State II, the new series, per PR, starts in, “a cabin deep in the mountains of the South of France, [where] the Killer has set up a new base of operations. From this remote hideout, he accepts each new mission with calculated precision, never straying from the assignment and always returning to this safe haven in the immediate aftermath.
“This practiced routine is suddenly disrupted when he discovers that he has some…unexpected neighbors. This unanticipated development seems to have the potential to finally alter the way the Killer sees the world, but for a man in his line of work, change isn’t just dangerous. It’s deadly.”
The first issue hits stores on May 7.
Giant-Size X-Men Changes Marvel’s History:
If you’ve been reading X-Men comics since the beginning, it might all be what some would call a “duck-blur.” But forget all that, because Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, is about to take a ride through X-Men history, and might solve a mystery in the process. X-tales! Ooo woo-hoo!
Starting with Giant-Size X-Men #1, and running over five linked one-shots, the books will send Ms. Marvel to the site of major X-events to discover long-buried secrets that will change everything. Will they be tales of daring, do bad and good luck tales? Maybe. Maybe.
Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, with art by Adam Kubert, the issues will also feature a Revelations Back-Up story by X-Men creators that will, per PR from Marvel, “uncover hidden moments that will alter the X-Men’s future.”
You’ll get a taste of the not pony tales or cotton tales but X-Men tales on May 3 in the Free Comic Book Day 2025: Fantastic Four/Giant-Size X-Men #1. And then the series will kick off on May 28 with Giant-Size X-Men #1. This will be followed by two issues in June heading to “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “Age of Apocalypse,” and then “House of M” in July before ending with Giant-Size X-Men #2 the same month.
Will Ms. Marvel discover life is like a hurricane? Stay tuned.
IDW Reveals Godzilla Universe Plans:
IDW Publishing previously teased that a brand-new Godzilla universe of books was coming later this year. And now the publisher has revealed plans with Toho Interntional, Inc., which will kick off with three titles as part of what’s being called the Kai-Sei era.
In July, the first title out of the gate will be — what else — Godzilla, written by Tim Seeley with art by Nikola Čižmešija. Starting in 1954, a new energy called Kai-Sei wakes Godzilla… And a boy with the power of the kaiju. With Japan treating it all like natural disasters, and the US’s G-Force trying to kill the titans, whoever wins… We lose?
Then in August, Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone hits from Ethan Parker and Griffin Sheridan, and artist Pablo Tunica. It will, per PR, introduce “the first-ever half-human, half-kaiju hybrid in Toho history,” and further explore the interconnected universe’s biggest mystery: what is the secret behind the Deadzone?
And in October, Chris Gooch and Oliver Ono launch Starship Godzilla, another first for Toho, as a crew of space-bound adventurers explore the worlds that the various alien races come from.
It’s a big year for Godzilla with this, Marvel’s crossover, and DC’s sequel crossover. But if anyone can handle a big year, it’s the original big boy himself.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And to be clear this isn’t the 375th episode today, it’s total. You knew that.
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