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Brigitte Findakly and her husband Lewis Trondheim have been collaborating on comics for decades. Trondheim, co-founder of the French comics publisher L’Association, has created international hits such as Dungeon, Little Nothings, Kaput & Zosky and more. Throughout Trondheim’s award-winning career, Findakly has been the primary colorist of his comics, abetting his artwork and stories. In their latest release, the creative dynamic is flip-flopped, as Findakly takes the lead in co-writing her memoir Poppies of Iraq from Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly. Recounting her childhood as a religious minority in a turmoil-ridden country frequently subjected to internal strife and outside invasion, Findakly and Trondheim take readers into the daily community of life in Iraq, contrasting a warm and family-focused side of the country rarely depicted in media with the political chaos that instigates her eventual departure from her homeland. CBR, with translation assistance from Drawn &a

You never really know what you might stumble upon while you’re tidying up the office. For DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, it wasn’t some long-forgotten treasure, but rather a rejection letter he received four decades ago from the very company he’s called home for the past 15 years. RELATED: SDCC: Jim Lee & Dan DiDio Look to the Future of DC Comics On Facebook, DiDio posted photos of both the DC submissions policy from the time, and the rejection letter he received on Oct. 17, 1977, accompanied by the following caption: This morning’s oddities while cleaning. Came across my first DC Submissions Policy and subsequent reject letters, the pitch, I believe, was a team book featuring The Creeper, Black Orchid and Code Name: Assassin, called The Outsiders. Fan fiction at its worst, but I still like the name. This morning's oddities while cleaning. Came across my first DC Submissions Policy and subsequent reject letters, the… Posted

One of the more intriguing (and creepier) evil Batmen in Dark Nights: Metal‘s Dark Multiverse is the Dark Knight/Joker hybrid, the Batman Who Laughs. Each of the twisted versions of Batman will have a one-shot issue that recaps their individual origin stories, and artist Jason Fabok shared his process work for the November Batman Who Laughs issue cover that features the villain and his horde of murderous Robins. RELATED: The Batman Who Laughs’ Origin Story is Absolutely Bonkers Batman Who Laughs Cover! Pencils, inks and layout by myself, and colors by the incredible @bdanderson13 #Metal #Dccomics #batman pic.twitter.com/ZyY3xjSnys — Jason Fabok (@JasonFabok) September 21, 2017 Beginning in the bottom-right image, we see Fabok’s layouts for the Batman Who Laughs and three of his Robins attached to leashes. From there, some light shading is added to provide extra depth to the image before inks are applied. The final image shows the completed cover,

In his author comments in the 46th issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine on Thursday, Saint Seiya creator Masami Kurumada revealed that he is preparing a project that "will probably surprise everyone." Kurumada has been serializing Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - The Myth of Hades in Weekly Shōnen Champion since 2006. The most recent season ended in February and he launched a new season in September. Kurumada published the original Saint Seiya manga from 1986 to 1990. The manga has inspired a number of television anime, OVAs, anime films, and spinoff manga. Netflix announced a new CG anime based on the original manga in August, and the Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō spinoff manga also has an anime in the works. A live-action Hollywood film has also been greenlit. Viz Media published the original manga in English under the title Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō manga. ADV Films released Toei Animati

J. Scott Campbell, co-creator of Gen13, will provide a new short story of the teen superheroes in the Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years hardcover collection. RELATED: Wildstorm: A Celebration Of 25 Years Includes Uncensored Authority Art Campbell recently shared interior art from the story, featuring team leader Caitlin Fairchild and the team’s mentor, John Lynch. 💫One of the interior pages of a short Gen13 story I wrote and drew for WILDSTORM: a Celebration of 25 Years, Out this… Posted by J. Scott Campbell on Thursday, October 12, 2017 The artwork was posted on Campbell’s Facebook page with the message, “One of the interior pages of a short Gen13 story I wrote and drew for Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years, Out this month! Ever wonder what the Gen13 would be like in the year 2017? Well wonder no mo! With the stylish inks of Scott Williams and gorgeous color work by Peter Steigerwald.” The scene looks

Simulation RPG slated for 2018 A panel at the Fantasia Bunko Festival 2017 event on Saturday announced that the Full Metal Panic! franchise is getting a PlayStation 4 game titled Full Metal Panic! Tatakau Who Dares Wins (Full Metal Panic! Fight Who Dares Wins). B.B. Studio is developing the simulation RPG with a slated release in 2018. Bandai Namco Entertainment will publish the game. The panel also screened the game's first video, which featured English narration and Japanese subtitles. The Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory television anime series will premiere in spring 2018. The anime's first season is getting a three-film director's cut version. Full Metal Panic! centers around a mercenary group called Mithril on a parallel Earth in which the Cold War did not end in 1991. The original Full Metal Panic! light novel series debuted in 1998, and Fujimi Shobo published the series' 12th and final novel in the main series in 2010. The novels have more than 11 millio

More characters revealed for Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin ahead of spring premiere Level 5 began streaming a preview on Saturday for the Inazuma Eleven Reloaded event anime. Inazuma Eleven Reloaded is "another episode 27" of the Inazuma Eleven series, and is an all-new work. The episode will stream at the "Inazuma Eleven Big Revival Festival" that will be held at the Tokyo Big Sight event hall on January 21. The spinoff episode will lead up to the premiere of Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin and will remake the earlier anime's existing 27th episode with a diverging story. The event on January 21 will also screen a "director's cut" version of the first episode of Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin, the upcoming television anime series. The episode will be longer than the one that will air on TV. Level 5 also began streaming a trailer on Saturday for the show's first episode. The video reveals more cast members: Yuuki Kaji as Sasuke Kozōmaru Shunsuke Takeuchi as Tetsu

Game ties in to new TV anime premiering in spring 2018 with parallel world story The official website for Level 5's Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin video game revealed on Saturday that the game will launch for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch consoles, as well as for iOS and Android smartphones. The game will launch in summer 2018. Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino had revealed in May the company was developing the game for smartphones alongside "high-end game machines." Level 5 hosted a livestream event on Saturday that revealed some test gameplay for the game. (The below video is only available until November 16.) The game is tied to the new Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin television anime series that will premiere in spring 2018. In the story, protagonist Asuto Inamori's soccer club is disbanded after the school's soccer field is destroyed. He and friends go to Tokyo to attend Daimon-chuu (Daimon Junior High) to play soccer. The story is set after the first Inazuma Eleven anime

As legend goes, Todd McFarlane devised his most infamous creation, Spawn, at a very early age. Now, the revered writer-artist has shared the very first image he drew of the famous Image Comics creation, which he created at the age of 16, in 1977. Though the character, as McFarlane notes, is noticeably blue in this early image, for the most part, the character looks uncannily similar to what he would become in the pages of 1992’s Spawn #1. Interestingly, McFarlane reveals he initially intended the character to be from space until, of course, ultimately deciding on making him a creature born from Hell. Take a look at McFarlane’s early Spawn drawing, which he posted to Facebook, below. RELATED: Spawn Producer Explains Why Todd McFarlane Will Make a Great Director Spawn #1 was published in May 1992. The series recounts the story of Albert Francis Simmons, a CIA operative who is recruited into the shadowy world of covert operations. Simmons is murdered by one of his squad

As part of the Dark Nights: Metal miniseries, DC Comics has released one-shot comics for each of the Dark Knights, who are dark, mashed up versions of Batman and other iconic Justice League members. Now, artist Greg Capullo has shared concept art of one of these Dark Knights: the Red Death, a Batman who took control of the Speed Force from the Flash of his Earth. RELATED: Grant Morrison Co-Writing Metal One-Shot with Scott Snyder Here was one of my concept sketches. #Metal pic.twitter.com/IewOuWBc6M — Greg Capullo (@GregCapullo) October 20, 2017 RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Mercy Is For the Weak in Batman: The Merciless #1 The Red Death’s design originally played up more of the Batman elements. His wings look more Bat-like, and the classic fins that Bats wears on his boots were also included. True to the Metal event, there are also spikes on his shoulders that make him look menacing. In both designs, the Red Death certainly is one intimidating foe. If the Flash and Batman are