This week, we take a look at The Black Mage Volume 1, dish the dirt on Avatar: The Last Airbender casting, and the live action adaptation of My Hero Academia finds a director! We review Eat the Rich #1 from BOOM! Studios, Radiant Black #7 from Image Comics, and Norse Mythology II #3 from Dark Horse Comics.

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NEWS
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/my-hero-academia-director-live-action-1235041442/

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/venom-let-there-be-carnage-release-date-change-1235037720/

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/avatar-the-last-airbender-netflix-live-action-series-cast-1235040170/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eaglemoss/transformers-gen-1-chess-set

REVIEWS
STEPHEN

EAT THE RICH #1

Writer: Sarah Gailey

Artist: Pius Bak

Publisher: BOOM! Studios

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: August 18, 2021
Welcome to Crestfall Bluffs! With law school and her whole life ahead of her, Joey plans to spend the summer with her boyfriend Astor in his seemingly perfect hometown. It’s a chance to finally meet his family and childhood friends, all while enjoying a vacation where every need is attended to. But beneath the affluent perfection lies a dark, deadly rot… will Joey discover the truth before it’s too late, and even if she does, can she survive to tell the tale?
[rating:3/5]
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MATTHEW

RADIANT BLACK #7

Writer: Kyle Higgins

Artist: Marcelo Costa

Publisher: Image Comics

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: August 18, 2021

Picking up from the shocking ending of issue five, Radiant Black’s life just got a whole lot more complicated. Pursued by a new enemy and not sure who to trust, will our hero escape with his life? Or is this the beginning of the end for RADIANT BLACK?
[rating:3/5]
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RODRIGO

NORSE MYTHOLOGY II #3

Writer: Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell

Artist: Mark Buckingham

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: August 25, 2021
Thor and Loki stumble upon sleeping giant who takes them on a journey to the giant king who gives them a bizarre challenge to participate in.
[rating: 4/5]
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DISCUSSION
THE BLACK MAGE

Writer: Daniel Barnes

Artist: DJ Kirkland

Publisher: Oni Press

Release Date: October 29, 2019
When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps toward inclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school's "Magical Minority Initiative," begins uncovering weird clues and receiving creepy texts on his phone, he and his friend, Lindsay, stumble into a conspiracy that dates all the way back to the American Civil War, and could cost Tom his very soul.

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