5 Awesome Comics You Must Read This Week (27 November)
In comics news this week, Warren Ellis revealed that he is writing a new Moon Knight series for Marvel to come out next year, with Irish art team Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire. The series, to be part of the All-New Marvel NOW! releases, takes Moon Knight back to New York City after spending time in Los Angeles during Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's run on the character. Ellis said that Moon Knight will feature street level stories with the character as almost a cipher for telling the weird crime stories he's writing. Ellis has also "fixed" the character's dissociative identity disorder, so that his version of the character no longer thinks he's Spider-Man/Captain America/Wolverine AND Moon Knight. The series will debut early next year. Marvel's Free Comic Book Day offerings are Guardians of the Galaxy-heavy, featuring some new additions to the team Venom and Captain Marvel will join Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket Raccoon, written by current series writer Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Nick Bradshaw. Rocket will also get his own story written by Joe Caramagna and drawn by Adam Archer with a cover by Skottie Young. Free Comic Book Day is on May 3, three months before the Guardians of the Galaxy movie is released on August 1. In comics movie news, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon announced they are adapting Ed Brubaker's late 90s cult classic comic book Sleeper for the big screen. No news on casting but it's a surprising choice for the high profile pair to pick a relatively unknown title to make into a movie. Affleck is currently gearing up to play Batman in the Man of Steel sequel while Brubaker's latest book to be adapted into a film is the forthcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Speaking of The Winter Soldier, Frank Grillo has recently been hinting that Crossbones, the character he plays in the movie, will appear in other Marvel projects. Crossbones is Red Skull's top henchman, though Red Skull won't be appearing in the Captain America sequel. In the Winter Soldier book, Crossbones beats Cap nearly to death before walking away. Will we see that scene in the movie who knows? There are rumours that Dark Knight screenwriter David S Goyer is developing Suicide Squad, Team 7, and Deathstroke into film projects, making Goyer the architect of DC's movie universe. Deathstroke is the world's greatest assassin and one of Batman's enemies (also featuring as a playable character in the latest Batman game, Arkham: Origins) while Suicide Squad are a team of supervillains forced into secret ops to pay off their debt to society the current line-up includes Batman regulars Harley Quinn and Deadshot. Team 7 is a more straightforward special ops team led by Amanda Waller, the head of ARGUS (DC's SHIELD, making Waller DC's Nick Fury). In other superhero movie news, an unused subplot from X-Men: First Class where Magneto was involved in the Kennedy assassination looks to appear in the forthcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. In the classic comic, the events leading to the mutant holocaust begin when the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants assassinated Senator Robert Kelly (played by Bruce Davison in the first two Singer X-Men movies) but it looks like the movie has switched Kelly for Kennedy. Those are the big comics news stories of the week, let's look at some awesome comics!