Comic Books, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for January 13, 2021

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

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MAGAZINES

NOV201209    COMIC SHOP NEWS [90CT BUNDLE] #1743    $PI
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SEP201497    STAR WARS INSIDER SOUVENIR EDITION 2021 NEWSSTAND ED    $14.99
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BOOKS

NOV201198    BATMAN & BATGIRL UNITE BOOK ABOUT TEAMWORK HC    $17.99
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DC Comics New Releases from Lunar Distributors for January 12, 2021

DC COMICS:

100 Bullets Omnibus Volume 1 HC, $150.00
American Vampire 1976 #4 (Of 9)(Cover A Rafael Albuquerque), $3.99
American Vampire 1976 #4 (Of 9)(Cover B Mirka Andolfo), AR
Batman The Chalice TP, $19.99
Birds Of Prey Hero Hunters TP, $29.99
Future State Dark Detective #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Dan Mora), $5.99
Future State Dark Detective #1 (Of 4)(Cover B John Paul Leon Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Dark Detective #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Stanley Artgerm Lau Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Green Lantern #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Clayton Henry), $5.99
Future State Green Lantern #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Jamal Campbell Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Justice League #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Dan Mora), $5.99
Future State Justice League #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Kael Ngu Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Justice League #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Jim Lee Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Kara Zor-El Superwoman #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Paulina Ganucheau), $3.99
Future State Kara Zor-El Superwoman #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Alex Garner Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Robin Eternal #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Emanuela Lupacchino & Irvin Rodriguez), $3.99
Future State Robin Eternal #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Daniel Warren Johnson Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Superman Wonder Woman #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Lee Weeks), $3.99
Future State Superman Wonder Woman #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Jeremy Roberts Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Superman Wonder Woman #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Movie Poster Art Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Teen Titans #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Rafa Sandoval), $3.99
Future State Teen Titans #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Dustin Nguyen Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Teen Titans #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Gabrielle Dell’Otto Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR
Heroes In Crisis The Price And Other Stories TP (New Edition), $19.99
Sweet Tooth The Return #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Jeff Lemire), $3.99
We Found A Monster TP, $9.99

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from January 1st to 9th, 2021 - Update #30

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:

COVID-19 - From NPR:  More than 4000 deaths from COVID-19 recorded on Thursday, Jan. 7th, a grim new record.  365,882 Americans have died from the coronavirus and 21.6 million have been infected.

MUSIC - From THR:   Four-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, Tracy Chapman, has settle her copyright infringement lawsuit against 10-time Grammy nominee, Nicki Minaj, for $450,000.

ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL:

From NYDailyNews:   Hero Capitol Police cop, Brian Sicknick, killed by blow to the head with a fire extinguisher during Trump-inspired riot

From ABC:   Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, dies from injuries suffered in riots, federal murder investigation opened.

From Forbes:   These five people died as a result of the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

From YahooNews:  President Donald is considering pardoning himself.

From YahooUSAToday:   Yahoo's live-update page on the "crisis of the confirmation."

From BusinessInsider:  Lots of coverage.

From YahooNews:   Some among America's military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup and may have had help from federal law-enforcement officials.

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MOVIES - From TheIlluminerdi:   Rumor says that Oscar-winner, Jordan Peele, is seeking Jesse Plemons and Daniel Kaluuya, who starred in Peele's "Get Out," to star in his untitled next film.

BIDEN! - From YahooNews:   President Joseph R. Biden's electoral college victory has been confirmed by the U.S. Congress.

TELEVISION-POLITICS - From YahooEntertainment:   MSNBC's Joy Reid says D.C. rioters would have been 'shackled, arrested or dead' had it been a Black Lives Matter protest

MOVIES - From EW:  "Entertainment Weekly" is previewing more than two dozen of 2021's most anticipated movies.

POLITICS - From YahooNews:   Live updates on the riots in support of the outgoing President of the United States and the aftermath.

From YahooNews:  Rioters enter the office of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

MEDIA - From YahooNews:   Media outlets, such as Newsmax, the Federalist, and Epoch Times, that spread that spread of conspiracy theories, misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19 also received received sizable loans from the federal government as part of the Paycheck Protection Program.

SPORTS - From YahooSports:   University of Alabama wide receiver, DeVonta Smith, is the 2020 Heisman Trophy winner.

POLITICS - From Truthout:  Brad Raffensperger may have stood up to President Donald during that infamous phone call, but the Georgia Secretary of State is no voting rights hero.  He has been caught trying to suppress the vote for the U.S. Senate runoff.

POLITICS - From Deadline:   Right wing media website, "The Daily Wire," is moving into the film and TV business.  The have picked up the streaming rights to the school-shooting film, "Run Hide Fight."  "The Daily Wire" is also developing two TV series.

MOVIES - From Deadline:  Tiffany Haddish to star in the film adaptation of the National Book award winner, "Landscape with Invisible Hand," authored by M.T. Anderson.  Cory Finley ("Bad Education") will write and direct for MGM, Brad Pitt's Plan B, and Annapurna.

BOX OFFICE - From Deadline:   The winner of the 1/1 to 1/3/2021 weekend box office is "Wonder Woman 1984" with an estimated take of 5.5 million dollars.

From Deadline:  Pixar's "Soul" leads international box office.

MUSIC - From YahooNews:  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says that executors of the estate of the late music legend, "Prince," have under-valued his estate for tax purposes by 82.3 million dollars.

MOVIES - From YahooEntertainment:  The Yahoo staff lists their "40 most anticipated films."

CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment:   Actress Jada Pinkett Smith says that she does not lend money to family.  She says that instead she only gives money that she is willing to "give away."

MOVIES-MUSIC - From GeekFeed:   Grammy-winners, Daft Punk, recently released a "Complete Edition" of their brilliant musical score for the wonderful 2010 film, "TRON: Legacy."  This new release is the original full musical score with five new tracks.

BLM - From YahooNews:  The white woman who attacked Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter, Kenyon Harrold, and his fourteen-year-old son, Kenyon, Jr., in a New York City hotel over her stolen iPhone has been identified as 22-year-old Miya Ponsetto.  Ponsetto had actually left her iPhone in an Uber.

MOVIES - From THR:   20 films set for release in 2021 that were supposed to be released in 2020.

STREAMING-MOVIES - From CNN:  How one bold decision made 'Trolls World Tour' the most important movie of 2020

OBITS:

From YahooEntertainment:   After a premature death announcement, actress and Bond girl, Tanya Roberts, actually died at the age of 65, Monday, January 4, 2021.  Roberts was best known for playing "Midge Pinciotti," a recurring role on Fox's former sitcom, "That '70s Show."  She also played "Stacey Sutton" in the 1985 James Bond film, "A View to a Kill," which makes her a "Bond girl."  Roberts was also known for playing the lead in the notorious box office bomb, "Sheena," for playing "Julie Rogers," one of the main roles in the final season of ABC's former detective series, "Charlie's Angels."

From CNN:  Former NBA player and coach, Paul Westphal, has died at the age of 70, Saturday, January 2, 2021.  Westphal is best known for his association with the Phoenix Suns, where he both played an coach.  As a player, he helped lead the Suns to the 1976 NBA Championship series, where the lost to the Boston Celtics.  As the Suns head coach, he led them to the 1993 NBA Championship series, where they lost to the Chicago Bulls.  He won an NBA championship as a player with the Boston Celtics, who drafted him, in 1974.  Westphal was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

From YahooSports:   Former NFL running back, Floyd Little, has died at the age of 78, Friday, January 1, 2021.  Little was a three-time All-American at Syracuse University.  He spent all 9 seasons of his NFL career with the Denver Broncos.  He was inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010.

From RollingStone:   The British-American rapper and music producer, Daniel Dumile, best known as "MF Doom," died at the age of 49, October 31, 2020.  Known for being enigmatic and mysterious and for his impossibly intricate rhyme schemes, Dumile recorded under several names.  After his family moved to New York, Dumile began recording with the rap trio, KMD.  He went on to collaborate with a number of the most notable names in hip-hop, including Danger Mouse and Ghostface Killah.

From Deadline:  Former New Jersey high school principal, Joe Louis Clark, has died at the age of Tuesday, December 29, 2020.  Clark was principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey.  He was the inspiration for director John G. Avildsen's 1989 film, "Lean On Me," in which actor Morgan Freeman as Clark.

"Golden Elm Flower Awards" Announces Its First Slate of Winners; "One Second" Named Best Picture

2021 First Chinese Film Awards: The First Golden Elm Flower Awards From the Aollywood Film Critics Association Released the Winners in Macau, China

MACAU--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Jan 5th, 2021, the first Chinese film awards of 2021, the first Golden Elm Flower Awards from the Aollywood Film Critics Association, released the winners of each award category in 2020 in Macau, China. "One Second" directed by Zhang Yimou won Best Motion Picture, Guan Hu won Best Director for "The Eight Hundred", Pema Tseden won Best Screenplay for "Balloon", Zhang Yi won Best Actor for "One Second", and Gong Li won Best Actress for “Leap”.

Fan Wei won Best Supporting Actor for his outstanding performance in the movie "One Second". In fact, his role as the village teacher Fan in the "Last Lesson" unit of film "My People, My Hometown" also impressed the audience. He is the well-deserved best supporting actor in the Chinese films in 2020. Elaine Jin won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Ji Minglan in the film "Spring Tide". Her wonderful performance won the recognition of most judges.

Actress Liu Haocun, who is only 20 years old, is a shining star emerging in the Chinese films in 2020. With her stunning performance in "One Second" and "A Little Red Flower", she won the award for Best Newcomer without any surprise.

Among several technical awards, Cao Yu won Best Cinematography for "The Eight Hundred", Zhang Yibo won Best Film Editing for "Leap", and Lin Mu won Best Production Design for "The Eight Hundred".

The first Golden Elm Flower Awards - Complete list of winners for 2020 Chinese films:

Best Motion Picture
“One Second”

Best Documentary
“Tough Out”

Best Director
Guan Hu, “The Eight Hundred”

Best Screenplay
Pema Tseden, “Balloon”

Best Actor
Zhang Yi, “One Second”

Best Actress
Gong Li, “Leap”

Best Supporting Actor
Fan Wei, “One Second”

Best Supporting Actress
Elaine Jin, “Spring Tide”

Best Newcomer
Liu Haocun, “One Second”, “A Little Red Flower”

Best Cinematography
Cao Yu, “The Eight Hundred”

Best Film Editing
Zhang Yibo, “Leap”

Best Production Design
Lin Mu, “The Eight Hundred”

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Negromancer Book Review: "AMERICAN GODS: The Tenth Anniversary Edition"

AMERICAN GODS: THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

WILLIAM MORROW
AUTHOR: Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 978-0-06-205988-8; hardcover (June 21, 2011)
560pp, B&W, $26.99 U.S.

American Gods is a 2001 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman (author of The Sandman comic book series).  In 2002, the book won several “Best Novel” awards from organizations that honor fantasy fiction, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards.  The novel centers on a taciturn and mysterious protagonist caught in a struggle between the gods of the old world and the new gods of America.

In celebration of the novel’s tenth anniversary, William Morrow published American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (Author’s Preferred Text) in June 2011.  This edition contains an additional 12,000 words and is the first time that this version of the text has been made widely available.  Gaiman also provides an introduction to this edition in which he explains the origins and development of the novel.

The premise of American Gods is that gods, mythological beings, spirits, and figures of legend, folklore, and fairy tales exist because people believe in them.  Through their beliefs, immigrants brought these gods and beings from the Old World to the new world of America.  Over time, the immigrants’ descendants either forgot the gods or their belief in their ancestors’ gods waned.  Now, out of America’s obsession with media, celebrity, technology, and even drugs (among other things) sprang new gods.

The story centers on an enigmatic figure named Shadow, who has just been released from prison after serving three years.  He can’t wait to get back to his wife, Laura Moon, but tragedy strikes.  With nothing left to which he can return, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger who calls himself Mr. Wednesday.  A charming rogue who can get ladies in bed with ease and a trickster extraordinaire, Wednesday seems to know a lot about Shadow, the man who becomes his bodyguard, driver, and general errand boy.  Wednesday takes Shadow on a long, strange trip across America, as Wednesday attempts to recruit some of the old gods to his cause.  But only Shadow can uncover the whole story about “the Storm,” the war between the gods.

THE LOWDOWN:  As much as I enjoyed American Gods (and I sooooo enjoyed it), I don’t believe that I have fully grasped its meaning, but I have some idea on that.  It is an epic fantasy and a road novel.  It is steeped in Americana, but also in folklore and folktales.  It is part suspense thriller that dabbles in conspiracy.  A side of it is a small town murder mystery complete with eccentric characters; that includes a good-natured and lonely chief of police who is horny enough to plot having sex with a female cousin.

It is a bit of everything and is all over the place, but that makes me wonder if this novel was Neil Gaiman’s attempt at the great American novel.  People think of the United States as a melting pot, in which people from different nationalities, backgrounds, and cultures blend into a new ethnic group, the American.  In reality, however, some people just don’t “melt” very well, and it is obvious that they can never physically look like what many consider to be an American – a white person.  America may be a melting pot, but it is equally a mosaic, a nation made of different pieces that have broken off from old world cultures and other nationalities. [Some would argue that the United States Constitution is the only thing that unites us.]

American Gods is a mosaic novel made from pieces broken off other stories, or maybe it is a melting pot of different kinds of fiction – the American novel for a melting pot/mosaic nation.  Gaiman reconciles the melting pot and mosaic of America by bringing them together and recognizing that American culture is about the tension between old and new.  It may be a jumble, but they can live side by side.  All that we need recognize is the forces that would tear us apart and use our strife to benefit themselves.  We can be different and even not united, but all be American.

Frankly, I did find a few sections of this novel to be dry and even dull, but the further you go into the novel, the tighter its hold on you.  Gaiman fills American Gods with inventive scenarios, imaginative characters, and ingenious concepts, although the new American gods are mostly flat and vague characters.  Still, it feels like this novel reinvigorated the fantasy genre, making fantastic literature that is not about escapism.  American Gods speaks of the soul of this country by delving into the dreams and the beliefs of the people and the supernatural that call this great land home.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Neil Gaiman will want to read American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition.

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8 out of 10

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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ViacomCBS Announces Deal to Add More Content to "Hulu + Live TV"

ViacomCBS Announces Expanded Distribution Agreement with Hulu

New Deal Brings 14 Additional ViacomCBS Cable Networks to Hulu + Live TV, Including BET, Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIACA, VIAC) announced a new distribution agreement that adds more content from ViacomCBS’ leading portfolio of news, entertainment and sports networks to Hulu’s live TV subscription streaming service, Hulu + Live TV.

The comprehensive, multi-year deal includes continued carriage of CBS broadcast stations, CBS Sports Network, Pop TV, Smithsonian Channel, and The CW, as well as continued distribution of ViacomCBS’ premium subscription service, SHOWTIME®. The deal will also introduce fourteen additional ViacomCBS networks to Hulu + Live TV, including BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, VH1, CMT, Nick Jr., TV Land, BET Her, MTV2, NickToons, TeenNick and MTV Classic.

“We are excited to have reached an expanded agreement with Hulu that underscores the value of our powerful portfolio of brands to next-generation TV platforms and viewers,” said Ray Hopkins, President, U.S. Networks Distribution, ViacomCBS. “Hulu continues to be a great partner, and this agreement ensures that Hulu + Live TV subscribers are now able to enjoy the full breadth of our leading content across news, sports and entertainment for the first time.”

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

About ViacomCBS:
ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC; VIACA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, its portfolio includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, CBS All Access, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. The company delivers the largest share of the US television audience and boasts one of the industry’s most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, ViacomCBS provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions for partners on five continents.

For more information about ViacomCBS, please visit www.viacomcbs.com and follow @ViacomCBS on social platforms.

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BOOM! Studios Shipping from Diamond Distributors for January 6, 2021

BOOM! STUDIOS

NOV200937    BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #21 CVR A MAIN    $3.99
NOV200938    BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #21 CVR B SAUVAGE VAR    $3.99
NOV200939    BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #21 CVR C CAREY VAR    $3.99
SEP200938    KLAUS NEW ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS GN    $17.99
NOV200876    LAST WITCH #1 CVR A MAIN    $4.99
NOV200877    LAST WITCH #1 CVR B CORONA    $4.99
OCT208392    MIGHTY MORPHIN #1 3RD PTG    $4.99