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White Tiger Reborn Celebrates Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month

New York, NY— July 21, 2025 — Marvel Comics will celebrate Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month this year by spotlighting Marvel Comics’ first Latin Super Hero in WHITE TIGER REBORN #1, a Marvel’s Voices Comunidades special. The one-shot will feature two gripping tales: a story by superstar writer Daniel José Older and rising star artist Bruno Abdias and a story by Bram Stoker award winner Cynthia Pelayo and acclaimed artist Moises Hidalgo, marking the exciting Marvel Comics debut of both Abdias and Pelayo.

The special will uncover never-before-seen moments in the original White Tiger Hector Ayala’s history and propel current White Tiger, Ava Ayala, into a new era as she reforges her link to the Tiger God and makes the mantle her own. In addition, October’s issues of Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and Incredible Hulk will have WHITE TIGER TEAM-UP VARIANT COVERS by iconic artist J. Gonzo that each showcase one of the three bearers of the White Tiger mantle alongside the series’ titular star.

THE RETURN OF THE WHITE TIGER!

Ava Ayala is the current wielder of the powers of the White Tiger, bearing the amulet of power that imbue its host with a connection to mystical power and martial arts prowess. As Ava returns to her old stomping grounds to protect the innocent, she becomes embroiled in a mystery that forces her to confront her family’s murder and history linking them to the White Tiger mantle as Ava is brought face-to-face with – Hector Ayala, her dead brother and the original White Tiger?!

“While it’s always a deep honor to carry on the legacy that Bill Mantlo and George Pérez began so many years ago, this story feels particularly special, as it marks a major turning point in the decades-long saga of the White Tiger,” Older shared. 

“As a Puerto Rican author, it is an honor to make my Marvel Comics debut with White Tiger,” Pelayo said. “I’m grateful to be a part of the experience of new audiences, and old, learning about the legacy of the first Latin American, and Puerto Rican, superhero in the history of American comic books.”

WHITE TIGER: REBORN #1
Written by DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER & CYNTHIA PELAYO
Art by BRUNO ABDIAS & MOISES HIDALGO
Cover by MIKE HAWTHORNE
Variant Cover by JHONY CABALLERO
Variant Cover by MATEUS MANHANINI
On Sale 10/1

IAMTW Announces 2025 Scribe Award Nominees

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  • July 24, 2025

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers unveiled the nominees for this year’s Scribe Awards. Early this year, they announced that prolific tie-in writer Dayton Ward had been named the recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award for the year.

ADAPTED NOVEL

·      Blast from the Past! By Chris McGuire (The Racoons)

·      Cwej: Requiem by James Hornby (Doctor Who)

·      Doctor Who: 73 Yards by Scott Handcock

·      Doctor Strange: Dimension War by James Lovegrove

·      Terrifier 2: The Official Novelization by Tim Waggoner  

AUDIO DRAMA

·      Archipelagio by Tim Foley (Doctor Who)  

·      Cass-Cade by James Moran (Doctor Who)

·      The Krillitane Flint by John Dorney   (Doctor Who)

·      Nowhere Never by Katherine Armitage  (Doctor Who)

·      Star Cops – Blood Moon by James Swallow  

GRAPHIC NOVEL

·      Alex Rider: Snakehead by Antony Johnston    

·      Dark Souls: The Willow King by George Mann  (Dark Souls)

·      Godzilla vs. Cthulu by Jonathan Maberry

·      Infinite Darkness: The Beginning by Keith R.A. DeCandido   (Resident Evil)

·      Wheel of Time by Rik Hoskin 

·      Wrath of Beth by Jake Black (Rick and Morty)


ORIGINAL NOVEL, GENERAL

·      A Bitter Taste: A Daidoji Shin Mystery by Josh Reynolds  (Legend of the Five Rings)  

·      Murder, She Wrote Murder Backstage by Terrie Farley Moran

·      Off Beat (Top Drek 1) by Marie Bilodeau (Shadowrun)

·      Quantum Paradox by Justin Sloan (PlanetQuest A game by Galactic Entertainment)

ORIGINAL NOVEL, SPECULATIVE

·      Arkham Horror: The Forbidden Visions of Lucius Galloway by Carrie Harris

·      Batman: Resurrection by John Jackson Miller

·      Firefly: Aim to Misbehave by Rosiee Thor

·      Runescape: The Gift of Guthix by Erin M. Evans

·      Star Trek – Strange New Worlds: Asylum by Una McCormack  

SHORT STORY

·      “Family History” by David Mack  (Star Trek: The Next Generation)   

·      “Here There Be Monsters” by Tim Waggoner  (The Mythago Wood novels by Robert Holdstock)

·      “The Lilac and the Stone” by  Catherynne Valente          (World of Warcraft)       

·      “O’ Deadly Deathtrap” by Bobby Nash (Remo Williams, The Destroyer: The Adventures Continue)

·      “The Tomorrow Ghost” by Robert Jeschonek  (Kolchak: The Night Stalker)

YA/MG

·      Down in the London Underground by George Ivanoff (Doctor Who)

·      Life is Strange: Heatwaves by Brittney Morris

·      Prince of Glass and Midnight by Linsey Miller (Disney’s Cinderella)

·      The Raccoons: The One That Got Away by Iain McLaughlin

·      Star Wars: The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless by George Mann

·      Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft (Disney Fairies)          

The Awards will be presented tomorrow during the annual IAMTW panel at San Diego Comic-Con at 2 p.m. PST. Each year the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers presents the SCRIBE AWARDS to celebrate outstanding works tied to popular licenses such as novelizations of movies and TV shows, as well as numerous original works set in the worlds of Star Wars, the MCU, the DCU, video games, popular TV shows, and much more. The Awards event at SDCC includes a lively panel discussion with current nominees and past winners. Hosted by The New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, president of the IAMTW.

Completely Howling Mad by Peter David

Join Us for Peter David Tribute at San Diego Comic-Con

ComicMix and the David Family invite you to join us in celebrating Peter David’s life and legacy at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. We’re giving you several opportunities to do so…

Completely Howling Mad by Peter David

While you’re on the exhibition floor, stop by the ComicMix Booth (#2308), where we will be selling the new release of Completely Howling Mad. This is a numbered hardcover edition, and limited to 500 copies. Completely Howling Mad reprints Peter’s 1989 novel Howling Mad with his never before reprinted sequel novelette, Moonlight Becomes You. This is a Comic-Con 2025 exclusive, and all proceeds will go to the Davids. 

Over the course of the weekend, we will be hosting a silent auction at the ComicMix Booth (#2308), where you can bid on many items, including the following:

“Kolchak the Nightstalker: 50th Anniversary” art, page 12 of “The Enemy Within” by JK Woodward. Materials: Gouache on 12×18” coldpressed cotton paper.  
Hulk: “Future Imperfect #1” (written by Peter David) Color Production Art Page 11 (Marvel, 1993) by Tom Smith, with linework by George Pérez. Materials: 12”x15” illustration board, 9”x13” Bristol board, watercolors, acetate, ink. This piece features George Pérez linework on Bristol board, and Tom Smith watercolors. It is in Excellent Condition, and is autographed by both George Pérez and Tom Smith.

There will also be books signed by Peter and various comics scripts available. We are also gladly accepting contributions to the auction. Please leave your donation at the ComicMix Booth (#2308), with a card listing its description, along with your name and contact information.

Bidding for all will be in-person only, and will close at 2pm Sunday. All proceeds will go to the David family. 

All weekend, there will be a guest book at the ComicMix Booth (#2038) for people to sign and leave their remembrances of the Amazing, Incredible, Spectacular, Sensational (and other licensed adjectives besides)– and dearly missed Peter David.

And at 7pm on Saturday, July 26th, we’ll be gathering in Grand 10 & 11 at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina for a panel titled, “Peter David: A Celebration of His Life, Work, and Legacy.”  

We’re looking forward to gathering and sharing memories of the amazing “Writer of Stuff.” Panelists will include comic legends, friends, and collaborators, such as Paul Levitz, George Takei, Mark Evanier, Chris Ryall, J. K. Woodward, and Glenn Hauman, and moderated by Maggie Thompson of Comics Buyer’s Guide.

Please come by and tell us your stories of the man who brought us so many of his own.

Robot Chicken: The Complete Series Cming in Oct.

BURBANK, CA (July 22, 2025) Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment invites fans to relive two decades of pop culture mayhem with the release of Robot Chicken: The Complete Series on DVD on October 7, 2025. For the first time ever, 228 episodes of the Emmy® Award-winning Adult Swim series, including iconic specials themed around DC, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Archie Comics, Christmas, and more, will be available in one definitive collection. 

This milestone release celebrates 20 years of the rapid-fire “channel flips” that propelled viewers through Robot Chicken’s twisted takes on nostalgia, pop culture, and everything in between. Fueled by old-school stop-motion animation and a crew of deeply disturbed toys, the quarter-hour show defined a generation of late-night animated sketch comedy. 

Robot Chicken: The Complete Series marks the first time the full series will be released on DVD. The fll series is also available on digital now.  With 228 episodes, fans can own the entire chaotic journey, along with an exclusive 20th anniversary bonus feature available only on the DVD, which includes many past guest stars. This is not one to miss!  

Created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken has won six Emmy® Awards and earned critical acclaim for its irreverent writing, handcrafted visuals, and jaw-dropping celebrity voice cameos.  

SERIES INFORMATION: 

Robot Chicken: The Complete Series 
Includes 24 Discs with 228 episodes plus not-to-miss 20th anniversary special bonus content, only available on DVD. 

PRODUCT: 
DVD 
Audio: English 
Subtitles: English  
Rated: TV-MA 

Spider-Boy Receives Facsimile Edition

New York, NY— July 22, 2025 — After almost thirty years, SPIDER-BOY #1, one of the all-time great DC/Marvel crossover comic books, will be boldly re-presented in its original form – ads and all—in SPIDER-BOY #1 FACSIMILE EDITION!

On sale in October, SPIDER-BOY #1 FACSIMILE EDITION reprints SPIDER-BOY #1 by writer Karl Kesel and artist Mike Wieringo. The iconic one-shot was initially published in 1996 by Amalgam Comics, a joint imprint between Marvel Comics and DC, which introduced dozens of new heroes created by merging popular characters from both comic book universes. The project was an industry sensation, and SPIDER-BOY, a mix of Spider-Man and Super-Boy, was one of the standout stars! Now, fans can pick up the character’s rare first appearance and revisit the unique world of Amalgam Comics just in time for Marvel and DC’s newest groundbreaking collaboration—DEADPOOL/BATMAN and BATMAN/DEADPOOL!

As iconic heroes of two worlds collide in the Amalgam Universe, get ready to meet Pete Ross – your friendly neighborhood clone known as Spider-Boy! Join the amazing Arach-Kid mid-fight as he protects Project Cadmus from the deranged D.N.Alien, Bizarnage! But even if he can solve that problem, big trouble lies ahead courtesy of a somehow giant-sized King Lizard! Can Spider-Boy bring his reptilian rogue down to size in time to meet the blind date lined up for him by his ally, Otto Octavius? Face it, tiger – you’re dying to find out!

MARVEL/DC: SPIDER-BOY #1 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by KARL KESEL
Art and Cover by MIKE WIERINGO
On Sale 10/1

REVIEW: Avatar Legends: City of Echoes

Avatar Legends: City of Echoes
By Judy L. Lin
320 pages/Amulet Books/$21.99

I know this much about The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, so I approached this first novel in what is being billed as the Avatar: Legends series. Is the title intended to be about stories set in and around the Avatar series, or is the legend in question the protagonist in this Young Adult novel? That’s open to interpretation.

Set in Ba Sing Se, the last major city in the Earth Kingdom, mainly in the Lower Ring, we come across refugees from the atrocities committed by the Fire Nation, as they seemingly rampage across the world. The Avatar is nowhere to be seen and is rumored to be dead (we know better, right?). We focus on Jun, a sixteen-year-old whose family has been lost, so she and her grandfather take refuge wherever they can. She enrolls in school, utilizing her skills as a calligrapher to do what she can to support herself.

Jin’s best friend, Susu, is from a family that owns the popular Wen Bakery. Things kick off when Susu signs a contract to serve the Upper Ring after her father gambles away the bakery. Jin promises to find a way to raise the funds to settle the debt and regain her friend. This results in allying herself with the somewhat aloof Xuan, a classmate whose family runs the apothecary where she gets her grandfather’s medicine.

From there, she takes on increasing risks to find money and Susu, becoming a messenger for the Black Market Silver Fangs before being initiated into their ranks. When she encounters Susu, she is a brainwashed member of the Joo Dee and does not recognize her bestie. As the Fire Kingdom’s soldiers invade the city, she also becomes part of the resistance.

Our focus rarely leaves Jin, who is constantly challenged about her assumptions regarding people, as well as her nascent skills as an Earthbender. Her growth drives the narrative as she befriends other refugees-turned-freedom fighters, including Smellerbee and Longshot.

Lin keeps the story moving along at a good pace, offering each character just enough of a personality to be interesting, but none are provided much in the way of depth. Conversations that would have allowed the characters to grow are truncated in favor of advancing the plot. The contrasting lives of the two rings are also given short shrift, so she imagines her readers can picture the locales based on the animated series. Speaking of which, we see Jet’s familiar attack on the Pao Family Tea House from Jin’s point of view, giving you an anchor as to where this fits into the overall continuity.

Events present obstacles and challenges, but few of the characters are truly endangered, blunting the edge this could have had.

Clearly, I am not the audience for this work, but it was an entertaining enough read and fans of the series should enjoy this self-contained story.

Usagi Yojimbo, Book 7: Gen’s Story by Stan Sakai

This one collects seven more issues of the early Usagi Yojimbo comic, plus a story from Critters, though the dates in the book are a little confusing. The book itself claims a first edition in September 1991, but says the stories included are copyright no earlier than 1992. Now, Stan Sakai is a fantastic creator, but I do think he’s bound by linear time, so issues 32-38 of Usagi, which were published from February 1992 through March of 1993, could not be collected in late 1991. Given that it has a 1996 Sergio Aragones introduction, and the second edition is said to be December 1997…I’m wondering if that first edition is a typo or just a mistake inserted onto the copyright page so long ago everyone has forgotten about it.

This book is also the end of the initial Fantagraphics run of Usagi. A second edition started up – checks notes – what looks like the very same month from Mirage . That one only lasted sixteen issues, but then Dark Horse picked it up and ran for another twenty-plus years for over a hundred and fifty issues.

So I’ll look to see if the beginning of the eighth volume seems to be more of an attempt to onboard new readers; this seventh volume, Gen’s Story , is much like the books immediately preceding it. There’s one long story that gives the book its title, this time featuring the return of the irascible rhino bounty hunter Gen, and featuring some historical backstory for him, alongside a cluster of shorter, relatively standalone stories.

We meet a female thief, Kitsune, who may be a love interest for Usagi, and then she returns in a later story. We’ve got a ghost story, in which Usagi is able to lay the spirit of a general he served under. We’ve got two shorter stories, one mostly humorous about young Usagi with his sensei and one where he’s narrating an encounter with an evil witch-like character to Noriyuki, the young panda lord who has showed up in this series a few times. And there’s “The Last Ino Story,” in which Gen and Usagi find that blind swordspig and nurse him back to health, learning what’s happened to him after their last meeting. (With about a hundred and eighty issues of later Usagi, I’m vaguely dubious anything of this era is “the last” anything, but it’s possible he never shows up again.)

As always, Usagi is upstanding and righteous, closely following the code of bushido and not particularly suffering because of it – this is a lightly moralistic series for younger readers, so the character with the rigid moral framework will be correct in every situation and events will arrange themselves so that he succeeds in his endeavors. Gen in particular exists to show an alternative to Usagi – not quite villainous, but clearly Not Right, like a young man bandying a girl’s name in a Wodehouse novel. The fact that this entire social setup was exploitative and corrupt, enabling a vicious caste of violence experts who were able to terrorize peasants basically at will…well, that’s just the way of the samurai, isn’t it?

Reposted from The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.

The Spirits of Violence Feature all the Ghost Riders

This October, the darkest corner of the Marvel Universe reignites in SPIRITS OF VIOLENCE, a five-issue limited series written by Sabir Pirzada, following up on his acclaimed Spirits of Vengeance series, and drawn by Paul Davidson, known for his recent stellar work on Namor and X-Force.

Tying together the entire Ghost Rider legacy, the explosive saga unites various heroes who have held the mantle including Johnny Blaze, Danny Ketch, Kushala, Hellverine, newcomer Fantasma, Robbie Reyes in his long-awaited return, and more, after they and those closest to them are targeted by a dangerous entity known as the SPIRIT OF VIOLENCE!

GHOST RIDERS UNITE!

When a strange group of new villains set their sinister plan in motion, Ghost Riders past, present and future must combine forces to save the world. But just who is the Spirit of Violence, and what horrors do they bring from Johnny Blaze’s and Danny Ketch’s pasts? Forget everything you thought you knew about Ghost Rider! The most climactic ride in history starts here!

On continuing his saga and the reveal of the Spirit of Violence’s identity, Pirzada shared, “Those who read our previous series, Spirits of Vengeance, already know that the host for the Spirit of Violence is none other than Barbara Ketch. That’s right! Danny’s sister has returned from the dead, and she’s already killed Linda Littletrees. That was always intended to be the kickoff to what I’m referring to as the ‘Violent Era’ of Ghost Rider, where all bets are off. The end of issue 2 in particular will prove that we are not playing it safe.”

SPIRITS OF VIOLENCE #1 (OF 5)
Written by SABIR PIRZADA
Art by PAUL DAVIDSON
Cover by KENDRICK “KUNKKA” LIM
Variant Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI
Variant Cover by E.M. GIST
Virgin Variant Cover by E.M. GIST
Kimono Variant Cover by PEACH MOMOKO
On Sale 10/1

Anna by Mia Oberländer

Books that are obvious metaphors can be tricky. Especially if you’re not quite sure exactly what they’re a metaphor for.

I think Anna  is Mia Oberländer’s first major graphic novel – it says it was created as part of her thesis in illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences – so I don’t have any prior work to check, to see what her usual method of working is. (The edition of Anna I read was translated by a person whose name was printed, vertically, in a fussy scripty font – apologies if I get it wrong but it seems to be Nika Knight.)

In the German mountain town of Bad Hohenheim, we see three generations of women, all named Anna. Perhaps for clarity, the grandmother is Anna1, her daughter Anna2, and our blonde narrator Anna3. And we immediately think that this will not be a naturalistic, straightforward story.

Anna2, and eventually Anna3, are exceptionally tall. Extraordinarily tall, strikingly tall, unusually tall, remarkably tall, uncomfortably tall. They have gangly super-long legs and torsos maybe a bit longer than normal. They tower over all of the rest of the people in the town – even the men, I think, though the point seems to be that they’re too tall for women, and that makes them generally unattractive to men and that they stand out in a way women shouldn’t.

There’s clearly an element of feminism in this metaphor – there’s a TV talking head who has an extended sequence giving advice to exceptionally tall girls which is the clearest indication of that part of the theme – but Anna2 and Anna3 are also clearly meant to be strange for women, outside of the norms, different in an unsettling way. They can’t be feminine in the way their society expects – they’re too big, taking up too much space, gangling randomly about, clearly out of place. We see Anna2’s size being commented on when she’s still a baby, her long legs erupting from a carriage to splay all over.

Is the metaphor about women who “take up too much space” – who are too big, too dominant, too much not deferential and quietly “feminine?” Maybe, but I think Oberländer’s point is more focused on tall than big – it’s tricky to know her connotations for both words, since she originally worked in German, but height is important here.

This is a mountain village, after all. Mountains are tall. Mountains can be climbed, perhaps more easily with long legs. Tall people can see farther at the top of mountains, and may be more at home there.

Oberländer tells this story in chapters, skipping around in time. We see Anna2 as a baby, Anna1 as a young girl with a dog with equally long and gangly legs, Anna3 as a young woman telling us the story and looking for love herself. Oberländer has a conversational tone in her captions, as if Anna3 was telling us this, in fits and starts, coming back to one thread and then another, telling us her family’s history.

Oberländer tells her story in big blocky drawings, characters often seen head-on. She typically has only a few panels to each page, jammed next to each other with thin ruled borders. Her lettering is florid, scripty, a bit difficult to read to slow the reader down. The drawing, though, is much cleaner, clearer: the pictures are understood instantly, while the words take just that bit of effort.

Again, I can’t tell you exactly what the metaphor means. It may not be that precise, to have a single meaning, in the first place. It’s a story about women that stick up, that can never hide in the crowd, that are out of place where they grew up and need to make or find places for themselves. That’s the general territory: a family of women, how they interact, what the “normal” grandmother thinks and does and says when her daughter and then granddaughter are notably different, when they stick up out of normal life so much it can’t be overlooked.

Reposted from The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.

The Boys Season Four Smashes Discs Starting Aug. 19

Ahead of the fifth and final season, The Boys Season Four disc collection will be available on August 19.

SYNOPSIS
The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under Homelander’s muscly thumb as he consolidates his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son and his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team is fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they must find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.

BLU-RAY AND DVD BONUS MATERIALS
• 14 Deleted Scenes
• 4 Gag Reels

CAST AND CREW
Produced By: Sony Pictures Television, Amazon, MGM Studios, with Kripke Enterprises, Original Film, and Point Grey Pictures.
Executive Producers: Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, Eric Kripke. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Phil Sgriccia, Michaela Starr, Paul Grellong, David Reed, Meredith Glynn, Judalina Neira, Ken F. Levin, Jason Netter, and Ori Marmur
Cast: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, Cameron Crovetti, Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

SPECS
Run Time: Approx. 493 mins
Rating: Not Rated
Blu-ray™: 2 Discs / Picture: 1080p High Definition/ 2.35:1; Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HD MA; Subtitles: English, English SDH, French
DVD: 3 Discs / Picture: 2.35.1 Anamorphic Widescreen; Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HD MA / Subtitles: English, English SDH, French

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