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§ IFC Films dropped the full trailer for 100 Nights of Hero, the fantasy film based on the graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg, starring Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe, Nicholas Galitzine, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant, Felicity Jones, and more. Directed by Julia Jackman, the movie (rated PG-13) releases in theaters on December 5.
§ Netflix shared the first piece of casting for One Piece season three, revealing Tony Award-winning actor Cole Escola (Oh, Mary!) will play flamboyant assassin Bon Clay. In the manga, the character is described as an okama, an often controversial word for an effeminate or cross-dressing man, but Deadline states they will (like Escola themself) simply be portrayed on the show as non-binary. Season three will begin filming before the end of the year, before season two releases in early 2026.
§ Mad Cave announced the winners of their 2025 talent search. In first place for the respective writer, artist, colorist, and letterer categories were filmmaker Jennifer Liao (From), Argentina’s Agus Calcagno, Pedro Estouco, and Marina Leon. In second place in those categories were Baltimore’s Devon L. White, Italy’s Gabriele Falzone, Mexico’s Edson Jimenez, and New Jersey’s Chase Snyder. Congratulations to all the winners – we anticipate Mad Cave will publish work from them very soon.
§ Marvel launched X-Men: Age of Revelation Infinity Comic, an Unlimited exclusive tie-in by Tim Seeley and Phillip Sevy, revealing what Nathan Summers was up to before his appearance in Seeley and Carlos Magno‘s Undeadpool. It sees Cable witness the Age of Revelation unfold “from a place beyond time,” while an old enemy of his “conspires to make himself a god.” Age of Revelation, which kicked off last month, will conclude on December 31, while Undeadpool #1 (of 3) is available now.
X-Men: Age of Revelation Infinity Comic #1 cover by Phillip Sevy§ To celebrate the release of their first Dungeons & Dragons comic, The Fallbacks, Dark Horse will hold a one-shot tabletop event at Portland pub/gaming center TPK Brewing on Saturday, November 22. Written by TPK creative director Dana Ebert, the one-shot will mark the brewpub’s first official D&D campaign. Tickets are on sale now at the link. The Fallbacks #1 (of 4), by Greg Pak, Wilton Santos, Edvan Alves, and more, is available now, and issue #2 will follow on January 7.
§ Anime News Network reports 17 Japanese publishers, including Kodansha, Kadokawa, and Square Enix, released a joint statement criticizing OpenAI’s Sora 2 app, and requested they not use their content for machine learning without their permission. The statement comes in the wake of the government stating they had asked the company to avoid infringing on copyrighted works. Sora 2, which launched in September, is OpenAI’s video regurgitator, as opposed to their more notorious text, speech, and fake image generator, ChatGPT.
§ The Portugal News shares the country’s Ministry of Culture will create a National Comic Book Prize, worth about €30,000, to bring about greater recognition of the medium. The award will be divided into three categories: a lifetime achievement honor, an award for the best comic of the year, and a prize for “an innovative character in comics.” Applications will open at the start of 2026, and the winners will be announced on October 18, which has been considered the National Day of Portuguese Comics since 2024.
§ Finally, per an official Facebook post, Don Rosa‘s wife, Joyce Ann (nee Payne), died on October 15, two months after being diagnosed with inoperable cancer. She was 75 years old, and had been married to Don since 1980; additionally, she had been battling Alzheimer’s for several years. Rosa, who is best known for his work on Scrooge McDuck comics, stated “though I should not write this sorta thing, I am feeling very upbeat that Ann did not hafta suffer through ‘3 to 6 months’ or more of that sort of misery,” and added he would return to attending conventions next year. “I look forward to seeing many of you old friends yet again, and making new friends as well. Or should I say family members?”
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