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Franken-Castle Here To Stay! Marvel Announces Title Change And Future Issues!
I don’t think anyone could have foreseen this one coming in the beginning. If you had told me that Marvel was going to resurrect a dead Frank Castle with Morbius’ help and start a ‘MUNSTERS’ like storyline with the character I would have told you you were insane. But I’d have been dead wrong. (That was almost painful.) It was announced yesterday that Marvel Studios will indeed be keeping Rick Remender’s (“DOCTOR VOODOO: AVENGER OF THE SUPERNATURAL”, “THE AVENGERS”) Franken-Castle around for the foreseeable future! Read on for the skinny!
Newsarama Broke The News Stating,
“Marvel Comics announced this afternoon that the Rick Remender-penned, Tony Moore-illustrated Punisher title will see a new name as of May’s issue #17—FrankenCastle, a move certainly implying that there’s a lot more story to be told.”
This is certainly interesting news for the character, and a move that is sure to be received with mixed feelings. In my opinion it is hard to judge whether or not this was a good move or not at this point, and we will just have to wait and see what the results are once we see the sales numbers come May. What say you?
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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