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Strange Owl Games has announced the release of Timothy Brown’s Dragon Kings in a brand-new edition suitable for 5E play, with conversion rules for 2E included. Brown, the co-creator of the Dark Sun universe, has further refined the desperate, savage world of Khitus, his spiritual successor to the original. Brown has also brought together a group of creators who helped shape the original Dark Sun setting, including Troy Denning, Brom, Bill Slavicsek, Rich Baker, and Shane Hensley.

​Oni Press, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced that December’s edition of Artists From The Abyss, EC’s next artist-centric celebration of its “boldest and bloodiest” talents… , will spotlight multiple Eisner Award winner David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Detective Comics). Re-presenting Lapham’s greatest and goriest contributions to the new EC Comics canon – featuring “taut tales of tension and terror” penned by collaborators J. Holtham (EC’s Cruel Universe), Matt Kindt (BRZRKR), Joe R.

This December, X-Force enters a new era in Fugitive X-Force, a five-issue limited series from writer Tim Seeley, following his run of Inglorious X-Force which concludes in October. Joining Seeley in this escalation of his current saga is Áthila Fabbio making his Marvel series debut. In this new chapter for the mutant strike team, founding member Boom-Boom (aka Boomer, aka Tabitha Smith, aka Dr. Madame Mcsplode) steps up as leader following Cable’s disappearance.

This is a guest piece by writer Daria Ershova. You can read more of her work on her Substack: http://unaccredited.substack.com/ In the past year we have spent the summer at Cousins Beach, cozied up at “the Cottage”, and attended parties at Briar University. Book-to-screen adaptations like these are nothing new. After all, Narnia, Harry Potter, and The Hunger Games proved more than a decade ago that loyal readers make loyal audiences.

Oni Press has announced The Juiciest Tomato Of Them All: Corita Kent, Pop Nun, a graphic memoir from creator Alison Oliver (BabyLit, Be Bold Baby) about the life and times of artist Corita Kent. Though not as well-known as her contemporary Andy Warhol, Corita Kent earned international acclaim throughout the 1960s as one of the pop art movement’s leading lights.

This week marks the release of A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts, a new graphic novel from Oliver Mertz (The Monuments, First Law of Mad Science), Alex Diotto (Youth, Indigo Children) and Oni Press. Set in a rather off-kilter version of 1990’s Washington D.C. where superpowers are a regular part of life even for non-superheroes, it follows Ari Ackerman in his strange life full of punk rock, teen angst, and a strange conspiracy.

Gina Susanna (seen on The Panic Table, The Heart is a Dungeon, BlackwaterDnD and more) is a voice actor, writer and producer. She has brought us characters that break hearts and lovingly put them back together. Just this year The Panic Table’s actual play How’s My Driving was nominated for Best Streaming Content at the ENNIEs. Just before the journey to Gen Con, we got to talk about how grief and yearning are the touchstones of her character creation.

On October 7, Marvel’s newest storytelling initiative, the Midnight Universe, makes its debut with a unified launch of three new titles: Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker and Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte.

The tabletop world is all about stories, told every way imaginable. And somehow when you trace this storytelling back far enough, someone always seem to pop up: Felicia Day. Her resume spans every corner of fandom: movies, video games, webseries, tv shows, and stage performances. She’s even dabbled in comic writing. Everything she does is on her terms, and she has the unapologetic pride of a woman who’s survived two decades online and has no intention of stopping.

Wizards of the Coast has unveiled the first gameplay for Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, an original third person single-player action-adventure game. Warlock is set in a dark fantasy open world inspired by Dungeons & Dragons where magic is a tool that players will use creatively across systemic combat and exploration. Developed by Invoke Studios, the game places players in the role of Kaatri, a veteran weapons master who makes a pact to wield otherworldly magic against dark powers.