COMIC BOOK NEWS FOR JULY 16: CLASSICS MUTILATED, GREEN LANTERN AND ASSASSIN’S CREED

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IDW ANNOUNCES CLASSICS MUTILATED COMING IN OCTOBER

IDW Publishing is proud to announce CLASSICS MUTILATED, an all-new prose collection of genre mash-up stories by top-tier authors, coming in October. At San Diego Comic-Con, IDW will debut the original novella “Dread Island” by noted horror and crime writer Joe R. Lansdale, as an exclusive preview of the upcoming collection. Lansdale will be featured at special autograph sessions at the IDW booth #2643 throughout the convention.

CLASSICS MUTILATED offers a different take on the current monster-lit trend by challenging a coterie of major talents to twist fantasy and horror elements with classic tales and icons, creating all-new stories. Lansdale’s “Dread Island” showcases the collection’s unique tone by featuring Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in a new adventure, with bizarre fantasy and supernatural elements out of both H. P. Lovecraft and Uncle Remus.

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GREEN LANTERN WRITERS AND ARTISTS GIVE THOUGHTS ON MOVIE

Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly debuted a first look at Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern in his CG costume. Many fans think that the costume looks very good (I think it looks awesome), there were also a lot of negative comments, most of them referring to a weird looking mask.

Now, some of the creators, writers and artists of the Green Lantern comic books give their thoughts on the CG movie costume:

– Patrick Gleason:

“Looks very cool! But I’ll reserve my final judgment for when I see it in action up on the screen. I did just see one of the interior shots from the EW issue and Renoylds is wearing the brown bomber jacket. That really made me go, ‘Wow, that’s Hal Jordan!”

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ASSASSIN’S CREED IN DEVELOPMENT

Ubisoft has announced that a comic book miniseries based on the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise is currently in development.

It is expected that the series will be officially unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con next weekend.

CBR reports that the series is being created by the Eisner Award nominees Cameron Steward and Karl Kerschl who are expected to appear at Comic-Con on the Assassin’s Creed panel.

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