Mayor Poison Ivy declares war on Gotham in ‘Batman: Bad Seeds’ crossover event

The event will kick off in August before blooming across the Batman Family titles in September and October.

If you’ve been reading DC’s excellent Poison Ivy series, you know that 1) Pamela Isley, aka Poison Ivy, is now mayor of Gotham and 2) That isn’t exactly the kind of thing you think would go well, having a former (former?) Bat villain serving as mayor. It’s a powder keg, and it looks like it’s set to blow in Batman: Bad Seeds this August.

DC revealed more details about the event, which they first announced back in February at ComicsPro. It’ll feature Matt Fraction and G. Willow Wilson teaming up with a host of artists to tell the story of one really bad night for Gotham, which will spread into the other Bat titles over the course of 10 weeks.

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Slugfest | BOOM! celebrates 25 years of ‘Farscape’

Plus: ‘Life,’ ‘Remote Space,’ Fantagraphics’ fall schedule, Minecraft, Dog Man and more.

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. Hit the links for more information.

Farscape, the Australian-American science fiction television series created by Rockne O’Bannon and the Jim Henson Company that ran on SciFi, will return to comics in August courtesy of BOOM! Studios, who published the previous Farscape series.

The 25th anniversary special one-shot will be the first Farscape comic published since 2010, and it’ll feature stories by  Keith R.A. DeCandido, who wrote many of BOOM!’s previous Farscape comics, along with Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly, Sarah Gailey, Sina Grace and more.

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Out of thin air, Kirkman + Ottley’s ‘Solid Blood’ #17 arrives in comic shops this week

‘Confusing’ find at the printer has the creators scratching their heads.

Robert Kirkman posted a video to his new YouTube channel last week to reveal a “confusing” find at the printer — a palette of Solid Blood #17, a comic by Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn and Rus Wooten. And low and behold, the comic is on this week’s list of comics coming out from Diamond, despite the fact that it was never announced nor solicited.

You can watch the video below:

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