Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 143, the comic book show that must be someone else, that must be…something else.
In this issue, it’s an All-New All-Different Marvel coming soon. Again. ALSO The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman is in the writing room for the next Transformers film. They’ll spend three films looking for Optimus, and find out he was in the barn the whole time. THEN it’s Oh Killstrike, Resident Alien, A-Force, Valhalla Mad and more in What We’ve Been Reading.
PLUS: Our Kick-Ass Pick of the Week™: ARROW: SEASON 3 and THE FLASH: SEASON 1 (The CW). This is BEHIND THE PANELS.
Your Hosts: Richard Gray, David McVay & Dave Longo and guests John Dee and John Hammond
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What We’ve Been Reading/Watching
This Week’s HIghlights (20 May 2015): Secret Wars #3, Convergence #7, Oh Killsrike #1 (Boom), Archie Vs Predator #2, Resident Alien: The Sam Haim Mystery #1, A-Force #1, Insufferable #1, Valhalla Mad #1, A-Force #1, Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 and tie-ins (including Deadpool and Spider-Verse)
News Headlines
- An All-New All-Different Marvel has been teased by the published for “Fall 2015” as part of their “8 months later…” campaign
- Craig Borten, who co-wrote Dallas Buyers Club, has been hired by Sony to pen the script to the adaptation of IDW’s Zombies Vs Robots
- Demarest Films has plans to develop George A. Romero’s Marvel Comics series “Empire of the Dead” for the small screen
- DC Comics will launch a new Bombshells ongoing series in August from Marguerite Bennett, based on the line of retro statues
- The Glyph Black Comics award winners were announced this week. with Shaft by David F. Walker and Bilquis Evely named best story of the year. Keef Cross won best writer for Day Black, while Nelson Blake II took out best artist for Artifacts.
- LEGO has announced that Bane, Joker, Harley Quinn and more will receive their own minifigure sets as part of the LEGO Dimensions game tie-in pieces
- The Walking Dead and Outkast scribe Robert Kirkman has been added to the writers room to help shape the upcoming Transformers film and its sequels
Kick-Ass Pick of the Week™
ARROW: SEASON 3 and THE FLASH: SEASON 1 (The CW)
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Next Week (144): The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughn
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Music used in this episode includes excerpts from Blake Neely’s scores to Arrow and The Flash.
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