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NEWS

• Dan Slott and Mark Bagley team up on ‘Spider-Man’ ongoing series
• New X-Men 2099 team introduced in ‘Spider-Man 2099: Exodus’ #5
• The identity of the Symbiote Bedlam to be revealed in ‘Venom’ #9
• Comixology Head of Content Chip Mosher to step down
• Multi-immersive webcomic ‘DRAC: Son of Dante’ starts today
• Blondie comics project gets a release date and new deets
• Milestone Initiative’s Static to grace Alex Bowman’s NASCAR racecar
• Comichron has some new 2021 figures

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Sins of the Black Flamingo #1 (Andrew Wheeler, Travis Moore)
2. X-Men: Red (2022) #4 (Al Ewing, Juann Cabal, Andrés Genolet, and Michael Sta. Maria)

Nathan:

1. Ghost Cage #3 (Nick Dragotta, Caleb Goellner)
2. The Swamp Thing #14 (Ram V, Mike Perkins)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Mindset #1 (Zack Kaplan, John J. Pearson)

Dave - Variants #1 (Gail Simone, Phil Noto)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Starhenge: Dragon & Boar #1 (Liam Sharp)
2. Nathan: Batman #125 (Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jiménez)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

• Dave: Batman 89 #6 (Joe Quinones)
• Nathan: Batman #125 (John Giang variant C)

Interview with Zack Kaplan to talk Forever Forward #1 - Out August 24

Art by Arjuna Susini with colors are by Brad Simpson and letters by Jim Campbell

1. For our readers, what is Forever Forward?
2. Do you have to create charts or a bulletin board to keep track of timelines/theories?
3. I’m pretty surprised to see a book identify the invading force when so many choose to keep that vague. What made you decide to go ahead and say, “This is who we’re fighting?”
4. There’s so much detail to the tech designs. How detailed was the lab description in the script? Same with the futuristic bits?
5. The first issue uses a lot of double-page layouts instead of conventional layout structures, what made you go that route?
6. Forever Forward is published under Scout, what made them the right publisher for this project?
7. What is it about science going horribly right?
8. Given the number of sci-fi stories you’ve got going this year alone, do you have a book of ideas that are yet untapped and how many good ideas are there?
9. Do you have any other projects you’d like to talk about today?