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King Features Syndicate has announcedAlex Segura will take over as writer of The Phantom comic strip this December. He will succeed Tony DePaul, who has written the strip since the death of creator Lee Falk in 1999. Mike Manley and Jeff Weigel will respectively continue to draw the daily strips and the Sunday editions of…

IDW Publishing has acquired the licence to publish new James Bond comics, and Grant Morrison will write the first series. IGN reports the announcement came out of New York Comic Con 2026, and the publisher is working with Ian Fleming Publications on the project.

There is something almost perfectly ironic about Primetime arriving in cinemas in 2026. The film is about a moment when television had an extraordinary amount of power: when millions of people could watch the same programme, at the same time, and collectively decide who deserved their attention, outrage or condemnation. And yet, watching it now,…

As revealed in DC Comics’ December 2026 solicits and solicitations,Tom King andDaniel Sampere’s final issue of Wonder Woman will be with Wonder Woman #40. I have rather enjoyed their run on the series. Not everyone else has, though. And it ends with a bang, a final confrontation with the Matriarch, her father, the Sovereign, and…

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdamwas when the game’s reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshitAI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is to say that the studio’s co-founder Patrice Désilets has not learned a damn thing from it.

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman recently went on “Side Jams With Bryan Reesman” for an anime round table with singer/harpist Lindsay Schoolcraft and CROWN LANDS drummer/singer Cody Bowles. During the conversation, which can be viewed in its entirety at this location, Friedman talked about the different challenges of performing on or developing anime songs in…