5 Awesome Comics You Must Read This Week (4 December)

Sup Spidey In comics news this week, it was reported that Mark Millar will be doing a superhero series with artist Goran Parlov called Starlight. The comic will be about a retired cosmic hero brought back, one final time, to save life, the universe and everything. Like Millar's other announced title with Duncan Fegredo, MPH, the series will expand what Millar is calling his Millarworld Universe, his version of the Marvel Universe. Currently Millar has two books out, Kick Ass 3 from Icon and Jupiter's Legacy from Image. Parlov is best known for his work on the Punisher and recently completed the Fury MAX series with Garth Ennis at Marvel. Starlight is expected in March. Fans looking for more Inhuman stories after Infinity ended last week were disappointed to learn that the Matt Fraction-penned series has been pushed back from January to April. The series will deal with the fallout of the Terrigen Bomb detonated in the Infinity storyline, which created a number of new Inhumans in the Marvel U, and explores how the new Inhumans are adapting to the sudden changes in their lives. The Inhumanity #1 one-shot, leading in to the series, is out this week. Indie comics publisher PictureBox announced that it would be shutting down at the end of the year. The company produced innovative and brilliant comics from artists like Sammy Harkham, Julie Doucet and Gary Panter, though its losses were too great for founder Dan Nadel to continue. PictureBox will be missed and if you want to pick up some of their outstanding titles, they're having a massive sale where you can get some great comics at a heavily marked down discount. SelfMadeHero announced it would be publishing a comic from Pixies' frontman, Frank Black, called The Good Inn. The book will follow a young man called Soldier Boy who escapes an explosion in Toulon, France, and goes on a trippy journey across the country before winding up in an inn and in the middle of the world's first narrative porno. Joining Frank Black (real name Charles Thompson) will be co-writer Josh Frank, who authored the Pixies bio Fool the World, and art will be by Steven Appleby. The Good Inn is expected to be published in May. Yet more TV shows are being adapted by the CW from DC Comics €“ rumours of a live action Young Justice show being developed from the cartoon series surfaced this week with Superboy and Miss Martian as the leads. The series is expected to debut in 2015. The life of the brilliant creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, is going to be adapted in a new biopic to be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. The film will focus on the creation of the strip and Watterson's struggle with its success. Though no new Calvin and Hobbes strips have appeared in 20 years, the series remains enormously popular with readers everywhere. And in late breaking news, the role of Wonder Woman has gone to Gal Gadot in the Zack Snyder helmed Batman Vs Superman movie. Gadot, a relatively unknown actress who has appeared in supporting roles in Knight and Day, Date Night, and three Fast and Furious films, will play Diana, the princess of the Amazons and one of the most powerful superheroes in the DC Universe, in the forthcoming movie. Batman Vs Superman will be released in the summer of 2015. The Justice League movie suddenly seems that much more real. That's the comics news of the week, let's look at some of the week's best comics!
 
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