Slugfest | Thor, Fantastic Four + Mary Jane celebrate anniversaries in Marvel’s August solicitations

Marvel’s August lineup includes a new Star Wars series, video game tie-ins and more.

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. This edition focuses on Marvel’s August titlesHit the links for more info.

Like DC, Marvel is kicking the crossovers into gear for the summer, with August bringing the first issues of DNX and the new Midnight Universe line, as well as mroe of the Queen in Black and Avengers: Armageddon. There are also several milestone issues, not the least of which is Amazing Spider-Man #1000.

What else does Marvel have coming out in those waning days of summer? Check’em out below.

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Hannah Rose May + Andrea Scalmazzi team on the Hollywood horror satire ‘Fatal Fest’

The writer of ‘The Exorcism at 1600 Penn’ unleashes a survival horror series about six filmmakers competing at a deadly film festival.

Film festivals can be brutally competitive, as we’ll learn in Fatal Fest, a new horror series from writer Hannah Rose May and artist Andrea Scalmazzi, coming from IDW’s horror imprint, IDW Dark.

The series follows six emerging horror filmmakers invited to compete at Fatal Fest, a mysterious festival run by reclusive horror maestro Frank Finch and his production empire, Fatal Films. The catch: to create true fear, contestants must experience it and be willing to kill for it.

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