Sunday, May 30, 2021

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Marvel Comics Honors Emergency Medical Workers With Comic

Posted: 30 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT

 

 

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote about Marvel’s EMS project honoring medics in the city:

 

Comic books have the power to bring readers to tears — especially when they see themselves on the page.

It's not something Tanika Bryant, a 42-year-old East Liberty resident who has spent almost 23 years as a Pittsburgh paramedic, ever expected to see. But there she was, uniform and all, enshrined in ink as part of "The Vitals: True EMS Stories," the second comic-book collaboration between Marvel Comics and Allegheny Health Network.

"It means the world to me," Bryant told the Post-Gazette. "It helps to know that someone recognizes us, especially someone as big as Marvel. To see me in it, I'm so speechless and so thankful. I'm still crying now."

Bryant was one of three Pittsburgh emergency medical services workers who was chosen to have their stories featured in this sequel to last year's "The Vitals: True Nurse Stories," which was one of 2020's most-read digital titles on Marvel.com.

 

If that’s so, it’d surely amount to more audience than their superhero comics are getting now. Certainly, the subject matter is important. Even so, I still think Marvel’s not the place to do this, after all the harm they’re still doing to their superhero titles and casts. With stories so bad there, you can’t be surprised if they’ve bored people to tears. It’s too bad they won’t repair and ensure the quality of their superhero fare is as good as the biographical comic they’ve produced.

 

 

Originally published here.

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Desperate for more Marvel Content, Disney Whips Up The Fury Files

Posted: 30 May 2021 05:30 AM PDT

With a month-long break between live-action shows from Marvel Studios, the House of Mouse is finding whatever additional Marvel content it can to add to Disney+.

 

Over the weekend, the streamer added the full first season of The Fury Files, an animated series that takes an exhaustive look at dozens of characters in the Marvel library. Using snippets from the previous animated properties Marvel has done, each episode examines a separate character from The Leader, She-Hulk, and other members of the Incredible Hulk family to Black Panther, Power Man, and Hawkeye.

 

The series was initially released in 2013 and now, all 21 episodes are available to stream on Disney+. Fury Files is an informational program that will teach fans about their favorite Marvel heroes and villains using a combination of motion comic art and scenes cut from popular Marvel animated shows like Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and X-Men: The Animated Series.

 

via ComicBook

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Heavy Metal Mag Beclowns Self on Social Media After Pushback

Posted: 29 May 2021 11:15 AM PDT

 

Comic book fans of the original 80’s animated film Heavy Metal had been looking forward to another limited series comic starring ‘Taarna’, the film’s main protagonist. But reader who expressed their disappointment with the direction the comic was taking after seeing a recently revealed cover of the publisher's six-issue miniseries from writer Stephanie Phillips, were met with ridicule and disdain by the magazine’s social media account.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Taarna is normally suited up in a bikini armor similar to Red Sonja, but that changed in Taarna #5, where she donned a full suit of armor. Writer Stephanie Phillips chatted recently about her redesigning Taarna’s new battle armor for issues #5 and #6.

 

"One really cool element to the finale was getting to design new battle armor for Taarna. Al [Barrionuevo] and Bryan [Valenza] created some of the coolest armor for Taarna that I hope we get to see beyond the issues we worked on together. It's such a cool look. Both Al and Bryan are incredibly talented and a great team to close out the story with."

 

 

 

 

Fans were not impressed and expressed their displeasure on Instagram, where the person running Heavy Metal’s account was quick to respond with ridicule and mockery.

 

 

The insults weren’t just relegated to Instagram. When called out on Twitter, the social media director doubled-down on the salt.

 

 

 

 

 

Does this make you confident in the direction of Heavy Metal? Can they correct this? Will there be an opening soon for a social media director at the publisher now being run by Tim Seeley?

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Founder of BOOM! Studios Appointed Chairman of the Board

Posted: 29 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT

BOOM! Studios is pleased to announce that our Founder and CEO, Ross Richie, has been appointed Chairman of the Board by the company's Board of Directors.

 

In this new role, Mr. Richie will continue to provide vision and strategy for the company, targeting new business activities and arrangements to take the company to its next stage.

 

 

 

"While it's difficult to shift away from being hands-on in the daily activity of the company, this new role will allow me to concentrate more deeply on trailblazing, which is my greatest passion," said Mr. Richie. "BOOM! Studios has tremendous momentum in every facet of our business, which coupled with my confidence in the strong team I've built to manage the daily operations of the company, means there's no better time for me to make this transition to create new opportunities. We've built the largest independently owned library of comics properties in America together, and the opportunities ahead are thrilling."

 

Scott Lenet, who is stepping down as Chairman of the Board after serving in that role for the past decade, commented: "I'm very proud of Ross, having seen how he has built BOOM! from the ground up, recruited a world-class team, and created one of the most innovative and creator-friendly models in media. It's been an honor being Ross' partner in building the company, and I continue to expect great things from Ross and BOOM! as he grows into this next leadership role. It goes without saying that I look forward to continuing to work with him on the Board."

 

Mr. Richie's transition from the CEO role to Chairman of the Board will move him out of day-to-day management. The leadership of the company will remain in the hands of its respected and veteran management team – Stephen Christy (President, Development), Matt Gagnon (Editor-in-Chief), Joy Huffman (CFO), and Filip Sablik (President, Publishing & Marketing) – each of whom will remain in their respective roles.

 

Under Richie's 16 year tenure as CEO the company has won "Publisher of the Year" from Diamond Comic Distributors 9 times, multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards, and published BRZRKR, the best-selling comic book in comic book shops in the past 29 years. Currently in a first-look deal for television with Netflix, BOOM! is producing R.L. Stine TV series Just Beyond for Disney+ and Mech Cadets for Netflix, with over 24 media projects in active development.

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