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§ The winners of this year’s Dragon Awards, held annually at Dragon Con, were announced. Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell, by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven, was voted Best Comic Book/Graphic Novel, while Deadpool & Wolverine won Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie, and Andor was named Best TV Series. Muppets performer Dave Goelz (Gonzo the Great, and more) received the lifetime achievement Julie Award, while Mike Hannigan won the Hank Reinhardt Fandom Award. Click here for the full list of winners, and here for all of the nominees.
§ In other Muppets-related news, Marvel announced ten variant covers marking the characters’ 70th anniversary for October. Created by Jim Henson (who would’ve turned 89 this year), the Muppets debuted on the WRC-TV series Sam and Friends on May 9, 1955, well before their appearances on Sesame Street (1969-), and the premiere of The Muppet Show (1976-81). Click the link for some downright hilarious parodies of classic Marvel covers, like Javier Garron‘s Amazing Spider-Man: Torn #1 piece, featuring Miss Piggy as Spider-Man, and Kermit as the guy in his armpit from Amazing Fantasy #15:
§ Via his newsletter, Jeff Lemire teased the upcoming second year of his JSA run. After “Year One,” which will run in issues #13-18, issues #19-22 will pick up in the present day with “The Search for the Spectre,” and then issues #23-24 will take us back to the past for “The Secret Society.” For more details on the 1940-set “Year One,” which begins in November, check out DC’s November 2024 solicitations. JSA #11 will be released in the meantime tomorrow.
§ Netflix released a second trailer for Alice in Borderland season three, ahead of its release on Thursday, September 25:
§ Comic Book Club reports that, following the controversy over Valiant Beyond: Bloodshot #1, issue #4 of the series is now missing from Alien Books’ November solicits. Alien apologized over the first issue last month, after its story was widely derided as a transphobic allegory, something the publisher blamed on translation issues, and said they would revise in future printings. CBC reached out for comment. At the time of writing, issues #2 and #3 are set to release on September 24, and October 22.
§ At this weekend’s Destination D23 event, Disney announced a new animated Diary of a Wimpy Kid special, The Last Straw, will be released on Disney+ on December 5. It is based on the third book in Jeff Kinney‘s series, which was previously adapted into the third live-action Wimpy Kid film (Dog Days) in 2012; however, it is the fourth animated film of the series, following 2023’s Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever. For more of Disney’s reveals during the weekend, click the link.
§ Finally, award-winning First Nations actor Graham Greene died on Monday, September 1, after a long illness. He was 73 years old. Best known for his Oscar-nominated turn as Kicking Bird in Dances with Wolves, Greene (who was Oneida), was a prolific presence, whose credits included Thunderheart, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Green Mile, Transamerica, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Wind River, Northern Exposure, Defiance, Longmire, Riverdale, Reservation Dogs, The Last of Us, Echo (where he played Maya Lopez’s surrogate grandfather, Skully), Turok: Son of Stone, and Red Dead Redemption 2. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Hilary Blackmore, their daughter, and a grandson.
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